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"Compere" Quotes from Famous Books

... W. Kelly has pointed out (Bohn's Heptameron, p. 395) that in France the godfather and godmother of a child are called in reference to each other compere and commere, terms implying mutual relations of an extremely friendly kind. "The same usage exists in all Catholic countries," adds Mr Kelly, "and one of the novels of the Decameron is founded on ...

— The Tales Of The Heptameron, Vol. V. (of V.) • Margaret, Queen Of Navarre

... called for pipe and tabour. Then as the evening lowered, men told stories over the hearth of the girl who had seen three suns at once upon the morn of Holy Trinity from a neighbouring hill-top, or of the luck of their compere Jehan, whose boy, born on the day of the conversion of St. Paul, was safe for all his life from danger of poison or of snake-bite. All these customs and superstitions are reflected in Hercule Grisel's Latin verses, which he ...

— The Story of Rouen • Sir Theodore Andrea Cook

... letter from your friends in Burgundy, and are going away soon with your nieces to stay with them for a while. You had better pay your rent for three months in advance, and tell your landlord the same thing; saying that you may go suddenly anytime, as a compere who is in Paris, and is also going back, is going to take charge of you on the journey, and that he may call for you at any time. Thus when he finds that you have left, your absence will be accounted for; not that ...

— In the Reign of Terror - The Adventures of a Westminster Boy • G. A. Henty

... tan le zote foi, compair Chivreil ave compair Dans temps les autres fois, compere Chevreuil ...

— Nights With Uncle Remus - Myths and Legends of the Old Plantation • Joel Chandler Harris

... of one of the god-mothers, also gave his evidence; it was his son Nicolas for whom Joan of Arc had stood sponsor. In those days it was held that the god-mother of a child stood to it in the relation of a second mother: hence originated the term of 'commere' and 'compere,' which Joan ...

— Joan of Arc • Ronald Sutherland Gower