compeer

Example Sentences

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A man "without a compeer . . . either in misery or in bliss."

From Time Magazine Archive

Charles B. Cochran, the British Ziegfeld, is quite as resourceful as his U. S. compeer.

From Time Magazine Archive

Up and down the line, company presidents were in agreement with their compeer of Nash Motors: "In the automobile industry we look for a big year."

From Time Magazine Archive

"Ambassador Forbes is a worthy compeer of George Washington," declared Prince Tokugawa, President of the House of Peers.

From Time Magazine Archive

So she is to her compeer of twenty-five years ago—selling dress-goods in the old Macy store down on Fourteenth Street—as the electric light of today is to the old-fashioned lamps of that day and generation.

From The Romance of a Great Store by Hungerford, Edward