dispeace

Example Sentences

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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

The 8th is against Contumely, as provocative of dispeace.

From Moral Science; a Compendium of Ethics by Bain, Alexander

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

From Christian's Mistake by Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock

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, 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