How To Use compeer In A Sentence
- As a historical record this book is without a compeer.
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- 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
- I discovered something about Patrick Keilty the compeer and (supposedly) comedian today. Archive 2006-12-17
- Be a worthy compeer of the divine spirits whom we have learned to love through you. A Distinguished Provincial at Paris
- 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
- It was then the fashion in Bengal to assign each man of letters a place in comparison with a supposed compeer in the West.
- Compeer : a person of equal status or rank ; a peer.
