dispeace

Example Sentences

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You know them by their hunted, eager, restless look, which tells of inward dispeace, of worry too great almost to be borne.

From Courtship and Marriage And the Gentle Art of Home-Making by Swan, Annie S. (Annie Shepherd)

But Defoe assures his readers he means to go on writing about the Union until he can see some prospect of calm among the men who are trying to make dispeace.

From English Literature for Boys and Girls by Marshall, H. E. (Henrietta Elizabeth)

Before the end of 1890, at least, it began to be rumoured that there was dispeace between the two Malietoas; and doubtless this had an unsettling influence throughout the islands. 

From A Footnote to History Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa by Stevenson, Robert Louis

And any thing is better than dispeace in a family.

From The Twa Miss Dawsons by Robertson, Margaret M. (Margaret Murray)

Felix, who has the honour to be pilloried in the pages of Tacitus, contrived to make the dispeace permanent.

From Prolegomena by Wellhausen, Julius