I am inclined to think that this principle was taught to their mountain compeers by Bisáya and Christianized Manóbos who found in it a convenient expedient whereby to make the collection of debts easier and sure.
Izhak with his compeers sate in gloomy silence during the entire conference, evidently annoyed at the good understanding that subsisted betwixt his rival Mohammad Ali, and the illustrious guest.
Casting aside his chequered robe, the king, with all the ardour of a schoolboy, dashed into the middle of the amazed group, and under a running fire from himself and courtiers, the field was presently strewed with slain and wounded.
The woman, who is a disguised witch, then mounts the horse and gallops to the trysting place, where her compeers meet to revel.
The effect of the cry of the wish hounds on the canine race in Cornwall is similar to that attributed to their compeers in Lancashire, only the death resultant is always that of a human being in the northern locality.
They have already been sketched in the preceding little record of the actual scenes in which he and his equally devoted compeers held their indomitable resistance till the fatal issue.
It was quite evident that his speech was a written one--probably a printed harangue issued to him and his compeers for circulation throughout the country.
When a Frenchman is horsey he never runs the risk of being mistaken for a groom or a jockey, as do his turfy compeers in England.
In early life, that is, up to his fortieth year, he had talked freely enough about his opus magnum to those of his compeers with whom he had been intimate; but of late Bacon's name had never been on his lips.
The compositions of Palestrina and his compeers represent music in its highest form as pure song in its most perfect consummation, attaining as song an elevation which has never even been distantly approached since.
Among the band of my compeers was one Whom chance had stationed in the very room Honoured by Milton's name.
The troubadours of the Langeudoc language find now compeers in the trouveres of the northern Languedoil.
The compeers of Cortez, who submitted to his authority, and acted in perfect harmony with him, as if they were but subordinate parts of himself, were each competent to command a host, and lead it on to certain victory.
In his first work on Brant, he has presented, in living colors, the great Mohawk of 1776, who rose up to crush that confederacy which Washington and his compeers had pledged their lives to maintain.
There were still fourteen of her terrible compeers remaining out of the four hundred and thirty that had been taken on the barricades and in the general saturnalia of the Commune and locked up in St. Lazare.
While in Germany Luthardt, Schund, and theircompeers were demonstrating that Scripture requires a belief in special and separate creations, the Archaeopteryx, showing a most remarkable connection between birds and reptiles, was discovered.
The evangelical movement incarnate in the Wesleys had not spent its strength; the movement begun by Pusey, Newman, Keble, and theircompeers was in full force.
By Philo and his compeers even the most insignificant words and phrases, and those especially, were held to conceal the most precious meanings.
In America the mild suggestions of Silliman and his compeers were met by the protestations of the Andover theologians headed by Moses Stuart.
I shall not pause now to speak in detail as to what are to be the fruits of the irrepressible conflict, nor shall I stop to inquire as to the purity or sincerity of the motives of Mr. Seward and his compeers in their crusade.
The fact that the average Englishman was a Protestant divided him from his compeers in Italy and damped social intercourse.
Surely the imagery painted on the inner walls of Egyptian tombs, and probably believed by Antony and his compeers to be connected with devil-worship, explain these visions.
Henry would have denied (as would all his compeers in temperament) that he put himself first.
Henry was spoken of in similar words by hiscompeers both at home and abroad.
Like their compeers of the St. Paul Suburb, they are usually women of great strength and endurance, but soon degenerate into mere passive, passionless tools.
He--like all hiscompeers in the neighborhood--found but scanty living in the grinding of corn for the neighbouring peasantry, there was too much competition nowadays and work had not multiplied in proportion.
I am known to my compeers and to mine enemies as Diogenes," he said gravely, "a philosopher of whom mayhap ye have never heard.
From this hour onwards and throughout the journey friend Diogenes would provide for everything and see that his faithful compeers lacked in nothing.
These, culled from my seniors when I was a youth, from my compeers in early manhood, from the youth I have seen grow up about me, make a host whose usefulness has been lost to the world.
He had seen all his compeers pass away, and he felt that he was in the way of a generation who knew nothing of him, or his history, and who cared nothing for either.
His knowledge of human nature was more consummate than that of any of hiscompeers who were remarkable for greatness of mind.
Memory turns sadly back to many, now no more, who were compeers of Dr.
The crucian, or German carp, is easily distinguished from its compeers by its bream-shaped back, which rises from the nape into a high arch along the line of the dorsal fin.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "compeers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
