dispeace

Example Sentences

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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

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)

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

From Christian's Mistake by Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock

Felix, who has the honour to be pilloried in the pages of Tacitus, contrived to make the dispeace permanent.

From Prolegomena by Wellhausen, Julius

And any thing is better than dispeace in a family.

From The Twa Miss Dawsons by Robertson, Margaret M. (Margaret Murray)