requiescat in pace

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I’ve always liked to think that requiescat in pace is but preface to a longer story.

From Washington Post • May 15, 2020

If you stay at the Pension Pace and wish to "requiescat in pace," you do as she says to do.

From Molly Brown's Orchard Home by Speed, Nell

"The fall of Zacatecas will be Huerta's requiescat in pace," Luis Cervantes cried with unusual excitement.

From The Underdogs, a Story of the Mexican Revolution by Munguía, E. (Enrique)

The requiescat in pace was scarcely uttered, before the blessing was craved, on the baked meats.

From Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) by School, A Sexton of the Old

Whenever the earth is thrown over the body of a man, no matter how abject or sinful he may have been, the involuntary exclamation of every one is "requiescat in pace."

From The Great Riots of New York, 1712 to 1873 by Headley, Joel Tyler