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How To Use Compeer In A Sentence

  • Compeer : a person of equal status or rank ; a peer.
  • As a historical record this book is without a compeer.
  • The Sedleys, Rochesters, and their compeers, had too much actual occupation, good and bad, to be fairly ranked among those gossamery ornaments of mankind; they were idle enough in their hearts for the purpose, but their lives were _not_ shadows, their sole object was _not_ self. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844
  • So Oldoway man has an in situ compeer from Kanjera to hold his hand!! Ancestral Passions
  • Palamedes28 all his days on earth far outshone those of his own times in wisdom, and when slain unjustly, won from heaven a vengeance such as no other mortal man may boast of. 29 Yet died he not at their hands30 whom some suppose; else how could the one of them have been accounted all but best, and the other a compeer of the good? On Hunting
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  • Only the lapse of many years may antiquate but never stale his elegant work on 'Ovarian Tumors,' of which one of his most famous compeers has said that he would 'rather have written it than any other medical work of any time or in any language.' The History of Dartmouth College
  • She is to be seen standing on her tub shouting with the best; and as little abashed by the unwomanliness of her ‘environment’ as are her more mischievous compeers on the political stump.
  • German jurists term the inquisitorial proceeding; it became the duty of the Echevin to denounce the ‘Leumund,’ or manifest evil fame, to the secret tribunal. if the Echevins and the Freygraff were satisfied with the presentment, either from their own knowledge, or from the information of their compeer, the offender was said to be Anne of Geierstein
  • German jurists term the inquisitorial proceeding; it became the duty of the Echevin to denounce the ‘Leumund,’ or manifest evil fame, to the secret tribunal. if the Echevins and the Freygraff were satisfied with the presentment, either from their own knowledge, or from the information of their compeer, the offender was said to be Anne of Geierstein
  • As a historical record this book is without a compeer.
  • It was then the fashion in Bengal to assign each man of letters a place in comparison with a supposed compeer in the West.
  • His great compeer, Henry the Seventh, did not hasten to adopt the same project submitted to him by Bartholomew Columbus, sent into England [8] for that purpose by his brother Christopher; and it has not been thought to derogate from the English king's sagacity. The Life of Columbus
  • Be a worthy compeer of the divine spirits whom we have learned to love through you. A Distinguished Provincial at Paris
  • I discovered something about Patrick Keilty the compeer and (supposedly) comedian today. Archive 2006-12-17
  • He had no satisfaction in any man other than that which he found when some event would show to him that this or that other compeer of his own had proved himself to be self-interested, false, or fraudulent. The Small House at Allington
  • He remained distant from his compeers on stage, thus condemning Barrit's Falstaff to an early acceptance of impending rejection and robbing their final confrontation of emotional power.
  • English writers are constantly cited as the fathers of our verse, the name of their great Scottish compeer is apt to be passed over in silence; but he is evidently worthy of being enrolled in that little constellation of remote but never-failing luminaries, who shine in the highest firmament of literature, and who, like morning stars, sang together at the bright dawning of British poesy. The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon
  • It has none of the poetic flights of the French genius, but advances steadily, and gains more ground in the end than its sprightlier compeer. The Paris Sketch Book

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