He had that chance; but if he had done so, using his legitimate power, serving an end which would help his party, and we may say his class, he would thereby probably have brought a certain dispeace into the industrial life of Britain. ❋ Unknown (1925)
But you know I am risking my annuity from Mr. Phillips by coming here to see you; but I heard in Adelaide that for the first time since you was married I might have the chance of seeing you, without making dispeace, which is the last thing I would wish to do. ❋ Catherine Helen Spence (1867)
It was not, perhaps, mission work in the ordinary sense any more than much of Dr. Livingstone's work was missionary work, but it was an effort to break down the conditions that perpetuated wrong and dispeace, and to introduce the forces of righteousness and goodwill. ❋ W. P. Livingstone (N/A)
But Defoe assures his readers he means to go on writing about the Union until he can see some prospect of calm among the men who are trying to make dispeace. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
What an amount of strain, dispeace, and estrangement conversion must have produced, if one member was a Christian while another clung to the old religion! ❋ 1851-1930 (1908)
Why, because I am a girl, should the poor lady be traiked all over the world in an agony of dispeace? ❋ Unknown (1887)
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. ❋ Henry Craik (1886)
Tacitus, contrived to make the dispeace permanent. ❋ Julius Wellhausen (1881)
We have not space to disentangle the intricacies of David's first great domestic struggles; briefly, there was eternal dispeace caused by the ❋ Andrew Lang (1878)
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. ❋ Robert Louis Stevenson (1872)
For the last two miles of the ascent, we had heard a distant vibrating roar: there, at the crater's edge, it was a glorious sound, the roar of an ocean at dispeace, mingled with the hollow murmur of surf echoing in sea caves, booming on, rising and falling, like the thunder music of windward Hawaii. ❋ Unknown (1867)
In a word, they appear to be equal to the best European police of the present day, and stand immeasurably above the guardian of the peace, or rather the raiser of dispeace, as he appeared some decades ago on the European continent. ❋ Alexander Leslie (1866)
His rough and ponderous hoof, for example, has kicked down, at one extremity of a railway connected with Edinburgh (marvellously and righteously to the dispeace of the whole city), that fine old specimen of Scottish ❋ James Young Simpson (1840)
I cannot tell you here of all the quarrels and dispeace; of how the different colonies called Orange Free State, Transvaal, Natal, and Cape Colony arose; of how the Transvaal at one time owned British rule and at another did not; of how Britain fought and suffered until at last the long years of unrest and trouble ended in the great Boer War; – I cannot tell you of all this, for it would take too long, and much of it would not seem interesting to you. ❋ Henrietta Elizabeth (1920)
Indian Exchequer at a vast cost to the producers of India; to diminish the amount of capital that would otherwise flow into the hands of the people, and to, at the same time, sacrifice all its consequential effects; to diminish employment for labour and increase the causes that aggravate famines and scarcities; to ultimately diminish the financial resources of our Indian Empire; to create a serious cause of dispeace (a useful Scotch word) between us and the people we govern; -- such are some of the effects that must be produced should the Government be successful in carrying out that monetary policy which it has forced on India in the most arbitrary and tyrannical manner. ❋ Unknown (1875)
For the last two miles of the ascent, we had heard a distant vibrating roar: there, at the crater’s edge, it was a glorious sound, the roar of an ocean at dispeace, mingled with the hollow murmur of surf echoing in sea caves, booming on, rising and falling, like the thunder music of windward Hawaii. ❋ Isabella Lucy (2004)
III. liv.) gives a drastic account of how Christian fanatics of the baser classes sowed dispeace in families of their own standing. ❋ 1851-1930 (1908)
Those who, without capital, endeavour to set up in business by means of credit, or, when capital is exhausted, attempt to struggle on by means of credit alone, will, in general, only have a life of anxiety and dispeace for their pains.] ❋ Daniel Defoe (1696)
