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

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

On such occasions, my boy, his casual pace is, if possible, rather more requiescat in "pace" than on ordinary marches.

From The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers, Series 1 by Newell, R. H. (Robert Henry)

R.I.P., requiescat in pace, may he rest in peace.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 1 A to Amide by Various