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
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
He feared the dead wife and the living; he feared dishonour and he feared dispeace; and his will was like a sea-gull p. 29in the wind.
From The Waif Woman by Stevenson, Robert Louis
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
And any thing is better than dispeace in a family.
From The Twa Miss Dawsons by Robertson, Margaret M. (Margaret Murray)