Already either had his promise plight, He nought unknown to his compeer would do, Till they had succour to that host conveyed, On which King Charles his yoke had nearly laid.
IX The two of Clermont and their bold compeer Gladly received her succour in their cause, Whom certes they believed a cavalier, And not a damsel, and not what she was.
He regarded poetry as an art; but he also regarded Art not as the compeer of Nature, much less her superior, but as her servant and interpreter.
This individual is the Pastor alluded to, in the eighteenth Sonnet, as a worthy compeer of the country parson of Chaucer, &c.
Soon as the Trojans saw Idomeneus advancing like a flame, And his compeer Meriones in arms All-radiant clad, encouraging aloud From rank to rank each other, on they came 405 To the assault combined.
XCI When Roland felt that the battle came, Lion or leopard to him were tame; He shouted aloud to his Franks, and then Called to his gentle compeer agen.
Jenkins, a compeer of Lumpkin and Colquitt, was essentially different from both in many of the features of his character.
In the United States Senate he was the compeer of Felix Grundy, John C.
Yet the ties of youthful attachment remained, and together we mourned the loss of our compeer and companion in youth.
When she had finished Ibrahim bade reward her like the rest with gold and gear and she passed her cup to her compeer whose name was Radáh.
Then she drained her cup and crowning it again passed it to her compeer whose name was Nasím[FN#281] and who took it and set it in front of her.
As to period, Prosper Merimee, to whom the preservation of the ancient monuments of France is largely due, has said that it is contemporary with its compeer at Orange (first or second century).
It is no more like its Parisian compeer than it is like the Pyramids of Egypt.
He is a man who will soon be your compeer on this floor.
He is a man who in a short time will be your compeer on the floor of this body.
Thus it was that probably the only living compeer of the lady in Sweden must put aside his Thinking to-night, to peruse and criticize such stuff as this:-- 16.
Here, it might be, he had a pointer or two to give to that great compeer of his, the lady in Sweden.
All I can say of him is that he was the compatriot, the coadjutor and compeer of Sir William Wallace, and one of the noblest knights whose deeds are recorded on the page of history.
Nor was it a small advantage that the new kingdom had an immense superiority over its southern compeer in richness of soil and beauty of scenery.
Since Rehoboam thus sinned so much more heinously than his northern compeer we can hardly admire the conduct of the Levites, who, according to the chronicler, fled southward in swarms from the innovations of the son of Nebat.
The latter was the pair to and compeer of his own portrait at Madrid,; and, hitherto unknown, was lent last year by Lord Northampton to the Royal Academy, and has since been bought for the National Gallery.
It is the job of the first of these men to tell the public of the merchandise being offered for sale at the sign of the red star; the job of his compeer to see that it is properly displayed to them.
The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries produced no nobler or better man than the brave Tom Paine, the personal and political compeer and friend of Washington, Jefferson, Franklin and Adams.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "compeer" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
