Compeer

I discovered something about Patrick Keilty the compeer and (supposedly) comedian today. ❋ Newmania (2006)

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 ❋ Unknown (2008)

Be a worthy compeer of the divine spirits whom we have learned to love through you. ❋ Unknown (2007)

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? ❋ Unknown (2007)

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. ❋ Unknown (2006)

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. ❋ Unknown (2004)

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. ❋ Unknown (2002)

So Oldoway man has an in situ compeer from Kanjera to hold his hand!! ❋ Virginia Morell (1995)

If in any thing it be, let it have no compeer; if not, let it not be named. ❋ 1616-1683 (1968)

This is, accordingly, the course through which we are now rapidly to follow him, — to the end of his days continuing to display an almost miraculous fertility of authorship, that is only equalled by that of his illustrious compeer, Richard Baxter; and, at the same time, taking no second part in the great ecclesiastical movements of that most eventful age. ❋ Unknown (1965)

But when a man is surfeited with his mate he can find comfort outside with friend or compeer; but we perforce look to one alone. ❋ T. W. Lumb (N/A)

Had it put on airs and spread itself out into the broad-margined and large-lettered octavo, it might have stood in libraries as a worthy compeer of the ablest chronicles. ❋ Various (N/A)

Germany, his native land, his ideas were not fully appreciated: strange that it should be so, -- for, had his countrymen recognized his genius, they might have claimed him as the compeer of the great French naturalist. ❋ Various (N/A)

Another is the room of the Agricultural Committee, where, with his group of Romans, Cincinnatus, called from the plough, fills the upper section of one end, and confronts his modern compeer, Israel ❋ Various (N/A)

He is the last of the old statesmen; he has had a part in many of the scenes that we call history; he was the compeer of Webster and Clay and Crittenden and ❋ Various (N/A)

There is not the quiet, splendid severity of its more famous compeer at Bruges, but there is far more luxuriance in its architectural form, and, at any rate, it was a surprise and a pleasure to find that any such splendid monument were here. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

To create a compeer in empire, as he did with Verus, was a dangerous innovation which could only succeed if one of the two effaced himself; and under Diocletian this very precedent caused the Roman Empire to split into halves. ❋ Emperor Of Rome Marcus Aurelius (N/A)

Near by stands Kit Carson's ranche, which, though more modest, yet, when the hunter occupies it, in dead game and comfort, it fully rivals its compeer. ❋ De Witt C. Peters (N/A)