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 Nell Speed
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 R. H. (Robert Henry) Newell
In leaving to Beaumarchais the undisputed possession of his sister Julie, the Chevalier du S—— has won our undying gratitude, and so in all sincerity we say, requiescat in pace.
From Beaumarchais and the War of American Independence by Elizabeth S. Kite
A careless abbreviation of requiescat in pace, attesting to indolent goodwill to the dead.
From The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce
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