dispeace
Example Sentences
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You know them by their hunted, eager, restless look, which tells of inward dispeace, of worry too great almost to be borne.
From Courtship and Marriage And the Gentle Art of Home-Making by Swan, Annie S. (Annie Shepherd)
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
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)
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)
Felix, who has the honour to be pilloried in the pages of Tacitus, contrived to make the dispeace permanent.
From Prolegomena by Wellhausen, Julius
