dispeace

Example Sentences

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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)

Do you mean to say that it is I who make dispeace!

From Christian's Mistake by Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock

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)

The Highlands were filled, by the Union, with exasperation and dispeace which could not soon subside.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 1 "Franciscans" to "French Language" by Various