dispeace
Example Sentences
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Why, because I am a girl, should the poor lady be traiked all over the world in an agony of dispeace?
From Patsy by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
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 Robert Louis Stevenson
Felix, who has the honour to be pilloried in the pages of Tacitus, contrived to make the dispeace permanent.
From Prolegomena by Julius Wellhausen
He feared the dead wife and the living; he feared dishonour and he feared dispeace; and his will was like a sea-gull p. 29in the wind.
From The Waif Woman by Robert Louis Stevenson
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 Annie S. (Annie Shepherd) Swan
