The kitchen was full of all his compeers, who had hurried and crowded in, from the various cabins, to hear the termination of the day's exploits. |
O noblest bounty that in grace compeers With emulous Heaven! |
Both Lamarckians and Weismannists admit that the better adapted to its surroundings a living form may be, the more likely it is to outbreed its compeers. |
Their great compeers, the giants of thought, foreshadow what it will be. |
Stryver, already fast shouldering his way to a large and lucrative practice, behind his compeers in this particular, any more than in the drier parts of the legal race. |
The prudish Gorky was an odd duck in this arch, gamy, free-loving company, and his association with it alienated him from his downtown compeers — including de Kooning, who nonetheless loyally defended him. |