peere

The writer is of divided mind as to the spelling of pier, for he passes from "peere" to "peor."

The Cornwall Coast

With diuelish fixed eyes they peere where they their darts may sticke.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

This Modon is a strong towne, and built into the sea, with a peere for litle ships and galleis to harbour in.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

Leland speaks of the place: "a fishar towne with a peere."

The Cornwall Coast

What can bee saied more, in the praise and commendacion, of any peere of estate, then was saied in the praise of Epaminundas, for his ver - tues were so singulare, that it was doubted, he beyng so good

A booke called the Foundacion of Rhetorike because all other partes of Rhetorike are grounded thereupon, euery parte sette forthe in an Oracion vpon questions, verie profitable to bee knowen and redde Richard Rainolde

Such a one does not scratch his head, and avoids sneezing in the dish; he abstains from wiping the plates with his tongue, and in carving takes the meat in his left hand and the knife in his right, forks being then unknown; he gives each one his proper place, and remembers "that the Pope hath no peere."

A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand

For the nature of ambition is to delight in singularitie, to admit no peere, to giue place to no superior, to acknowledge no equall.

Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (6 of 12) Richard the First Raphael Holinshed

Leland describes it as "a little fischar towne with a peere".

The Cornish Riviera Sidney Heath 1907

The peere must first be made Barrons by which they hold all their priviledges – Barrons of England – which is from ye king by patent; all his Children are Called ye honbl adding the Christian name to their sirname, and this remaines to daughters when marry'd.

Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary 1888

London accommodate; and therefore the word is well applied to the impress (_Glory sans peere_), for that the lily is neither proud of the beauty, nor vainglorious of the pomp; no more is London; but if it be joyful of anything, it is of the grace and plenty, both flowing from two such fountains as becomes not us to name.

A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 6 William Carew Hazlitt 1873