dispeace

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Why, because I am a girl, should the poor lady be traiked all over the world in an agony of dispeace?

From Patsy by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

Before the end of 1890, 160 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 The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 17 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis

The connection with the royal family, which had been thrust upon Clarendon to his indignation and sorely against his will, proved a new source of anxiety and dispeace.

From Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon — Volume 02 by Clarendon, Edward Hyde, Earl of

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

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

From Prolegomena by Wellhausen, Julius