dispeace

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

From Prolegomena by Wellhausen, Julius

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

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)

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)

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