Use peace in a sentence
Sentences starting with peace
- Peace was restored to the heavens, but the crowd and noise in the city and the street constantly increased. [10]
- Peace be to those walls, forever,--the Professor said,--for the many pleasant years he has passed within them! [6]
- Peace the best thing of all. [11]
- Peace be upon thee," he added at the doorway, as the torch flickered towards the room where David was to lie. [11]
- Peace be on thee, O Prince of the Faithful! [11]
- Peace be with thee! [11]
- Peace be to thee! [11]
- Peace fell upon the travelers like a garment, and although they had as much difficulty in landing their baggage as the early Pilgrims had in getting theirs ashore, the circumstance was not able to disquiet them much. [4]
- Peace brooded in the silent and comforting forest, and Jim and Arrowhead, the Indian ever ahead, swung along, mile after mile, on their snow-shoes, emerging at last upon the wide white prairie. [11]
- Peace to all such as may have been vexed in spirit by any utterance these pages have repeated! [6]
Sentences ending with peace
- Who has given you peace? [11]
- When they suspected you I held my peace. [11]
- Go, and when you come again, it will be for us to part in peace--at least in peace. [11]
- The cannonshots had wounded him fatally, he had crept to that unfriendly place in the fog, and there, surrounded by his enemies and in constant danger of detection, he had wasted away with hunger and suffering till death gave him peace. [5]
- For bushrangers he would have a modern Tyburn, but this and other tragic suggestions lacked conviction when confronted with his verdicts given as Justice of the Peace. [11]
- One would sit without moving, undertaking nothing...." "Life as it is leaves one no peace. [2]
- Foremost of them, with Theocritus, came the high-priest of Serapis, and Caracalla immediately desired them to introduce the newly appointed head-guardian of the peace. [10]
- If Barbara was wise, her daily prayer should be for the maintenance of peace. [10]
- La Tremouille turned white with anger, but he pulled himself firmly together and held his peace. [5]
- The interest with which the fair daughter of his companion-in-arms watched his deeds and his destiny, the modest yet ardent devotion afterwards displayed by the much sought-after young widow, who coldly repelled all other suitors, had been a delight to him in times of peace. [10]
Short sentences using peace
- Inshallah, peace be upon thee! [11]
- I love peace, Tavid. [9]
- Peace to his starlit dreams! [6]
- In such great peace. [4]
- Parpon held his peace. [11]
- Let us have peace. [11]
- Darkness would be peace. [11]
- On whom be peace! [5]
- Inshallah, go in peace! [11]
- Go now--go in peace! [11]
Sentences containing peace two or more times
- It is peace you want, my mother, peace and solitude, in which the soul goes to sleep. [11]
- It may be well to look at the prospects before us, if a peace is established on the basis of Southern independence, the only peace possible, unless we choose to add ourselves to the four millions who already call the Southern whites their masters. [6]
- The breach of the country's peace may be forgiven the man who so heroically aided the battle for peace. [10]
- To now restore peace, let the military obey orders, and those not of the military leave each other alone, thus not breaking the peace themselves. [7]
- Within was a peace that passed understanding,--the peace of martial law. [9]
- There is no peace for me like the peace I feel when I am there. [5]
- Again a strange peace descended on her, the peace of an exile come home; if not to remain, at least to know her own land and people before faring forth. [9]
- I hold my peace because--because I hold my peace. [11]
- Peace to the palace and peace to its lovely garden, of both of which I have had quite enough for one night! [4]
- Finality of purpose once determined, a kind of peace came over her sick spirit, for with finality there is quiescence if not peace. [11]
More example sentences with the word peace in them
- She marries to your pleasure, therefore she has peace and your love. [11]
- Go back to your people as their chiefs, and tell them that through you the Big Knives have granted peace to your nation. [9]
- Then tell me your grief to-day too; it will do you good, it will bring back peace to your mind. [10]
- It is where you say: "The undersigned are unable to agree with you in the opinion you have expressed that the Constitution is different in time of insurrection or invasion from what it is in time of peace and public security. [7]
- Even at meals you never have an hour of peace and comfort. [10]
- Even Croesus, who you know is one of Amasis' well-wishers, and advises peace whenever it is possible, had not a word to say against it. [10]
- We know that you have armed a vast host against us, and we are ready to buy peace and liberty by a yearly tribute. [10]
- She had not yet achieved peace, and much of the weary task would have to be done over after he was gone. [9]
- From the Twelve Years' Truce to the Peace of Westphalia. [6]
- If the man would win eternal peace so, then so be it. [11]
- The proposed emancipation would shorten the war, perpetuate peace, insure this increase of population, and proportionately the wealth of the country. [7]
- To such I would say: You desire peace, and you blame me that we do not have it. [7]
- She thought it would restore her peace of mind forever if she could succeed in speaking to him for even one brief moment and telling him what a transformation his guilt had wrought in her ardent love and her whole nature. [10]
- Some, no doubt, would rather have fought than have had peace at the price; but they could not free their minds from the sacred force which had brought most of the crowd of faction-fighters to their knees. [11]
- It would be worth to the nation a hundred years purchase of peace and prosperity. [7]
- So calm the world, so still the city lies, So warm the haze that spreads o'er everything; And yet where, there, Peace sits as Lord and King, Havoc will reign when next the sun shall rise. [11]
- It had a wonderful look of peace, and a smile that would reconcile anyone she loved to her going. [11]
- It takes a woman to sound a woman's heart, and she found there was still love enough under the ruffled waters to warrant the hope of peace and tranquillity. [6]
- She must allow Wolf to restore peace to Dona Magdalena's troubled mind. [10]
- The world has witnessed how Peace fled from my path, or I from hers, and yet I see the possibility of finding the way. [10]
- He knew that within reach of Paula, and condemned to live with her, he could never recover his peace, but must suffer constant pangs. [10]
- She tortured herself with questions, and the less peace her aunt gave her, the more unendurable her headache became, the more plainly she felt that the fever, against whose relaxing power she had struggled for days, would conquer her. [10]
- He had been with Lyon at Wilson's Creek, and he had a sad story to tell of how he found poor Richter, lying stark on that bloody field, with a smile of peace upon his face. [9]
- Whoever can saunter, with lukewarm blood and lukewarm pleasures, from one decade to another in peace and honor, is fortunate. [10]
- I am favored with a blessed peace of mind, and a very precious season of good feelin' toward my fellow-creturs. [6]
- Out of those windows, to Victoria, shone honesty and truth, and the peace which these alone may bring. [9]
- A soft summer wind waved a little the long gray grass of the ancient resting-place, and seemed to whisper peace to the weary generation that lay there. [4]
- And these creatures will compare these pins together, and if one is a shade finer than the rest, they will all be thrown on my hands, and I will have to order a new lot to keep peace in the family. [5]
- Where the valleys widened we came to silent, decorous little towns and villages where yellow-lit windows gleaming through the trees suggested refuge and peace, while we were wanderers in the night. [9]
- O friends, we who live in peace and plenty amongst our families, how little do we realize the terror and the misery and the dumb heart-aches of those days! [9]
- Poor soldier he who did not raise his sword, And, touching with his lips the hilt-cross, swear In war or peace the livery to wear Of one that blessed him with her queenly word. [11]
- I'd like to whisper in his ear that he'd better be lookin' sharp for the M'Mahon Gang, and that if he's a man of peace he'd best take a holiday till after next week, or get smallpox or something. [11]
- Was it worth while now, I asked myself, to disturb the peace of that mind? [9]
- Yes, something of which she was still ignorant must be oppressing Wolff, and, with the firm resolve to give him no peace until he confessed everything to her, she returned to the couch of her invalid mother. [10]
- The long weeks which had passed since that night at Hamley, when she had told Eglington the truth about so many things, had brought no peace, no understanding, no good news from anywhere. [11]
- Only the soul which ceases to regard death as a misfortune finds peace. [10]
- The capital needed, when peace comes, to ensure a happy and contented democracy must be procured without encroaching on the minimum standard of life, and without hampering production. [9]
- Now, that is what, he has learned in life-- the way to peace. [11]
- But luckily for what was left of my peace of mind, I didn't know that. [5]
- That she mistook what really was in his eyes was not material, though he was thinking of days when he believed he had discovered the secret of life--a woman whose life was beautiful; diffusing beauty, contentment, inspiration and peace. [11]
- But if I were, you should be at peace here. [11]
- What his thoughts were, Hodder could not surmise; for he seemed again, marvellously, to have regained the outward peace which was the symbol of banishment from the inner man of all thought of self. [9]
- Mingling with these were the angry outcries of those whom the lictors or guardians of the peace had laid hands on, or their indignant companions; and the thunder outside rolled a solemn accompaniment to the mutinous tumult within. [10]
- I remember you were such an impatient blasphemer, however musically, against the adamantine identities, in your youth, that you should take your turn of resignation now, and be a preacher of peace. [6]
- Their efforts, however, were seldom so successful as to-day, when every one knew that a disturbance of the peace would be punished by exclusion from the banquet. [10]
- And, as though we were still in the pastoral times of peace, in the square of one of these villages a horse-fair was in progress, blue-smocked peasants were trotting chunky ponies over the stones. [9]
- Some of them, we know, already desire peace and reunion. [7]
- To be sure, we broke many a piece of bread together in war and peace in the same service. [10]
- Thence the former watched the conflict in which, grown grey in the arts of peace, he shared only with his heart and soul. [10]
- A noble peace was upon it, and the eyes were like lamps of dusky fire, as though they held all the strength of the nerveless body. [11]
- How delightful it was to saunter down the winding road into a region of peace and calm; to see from the safe highway the great giants in all their majesty; to come to vegetation, to the company of familiar trees, and the haunts of men! [4]
- Fool that he was to let other folks' woes destroy his peace and hinder him in his scientific advancement! [10]
- The, public astonishment was so great and the public curiosity so intense, that when the justice of the peace opened his court, the place was packed with people and even the windows were full. [5]
- What peace there was sitting once again under the rustling trees on the lawn with the green river and the blue bay spread out before us, and Scipio standing by with my grandfather's punch. [9]
- But her husband was rough on me--many times he was rough on me--and mainly he was the justice of the peace that jugged me for a vagrant. [5]
- His daughter's presence was probably due to that of the guests quartered in his home, especially Cordula, whom, since she disturbed the peace of his quiet household night after night, he regarded as the personification of restlessness and reckless freedom. [10]
- The large room was perfectly still, but the peace that surrounded her was often disturbed by strange noises and tones, that rose from the dining-hall directly under her chamber. [10]
- When the work was over, and every stain or sign of surgery removed, sleep came down on the bed--a deep and saturating sleep, which seemed to fill the room with peace. [11]
- A strange peace was over Stephen. [9]
- After the meal was over he sat listlessly on the sofa, like a visitor whose presence is endured, pathetically refraining from that occupation in which his soul found refreshment and peace, the compilation of the Bumpus genealogy. [9]
- At Heliopolis he was met by deputations from the Greek inhabitants of Naukratis and the Libyans, praying for peace and his protection, and bringing a golden wreath and other rich presents. [10]
- His own heart was heavy enough, but he knew his companion's warm devotion to the Queen; so, passing his arm around his shoulder, he entreated him to maintain that peace of soul and mind which he had so often admired. [10]
- My work which was given me to do is finished; give me your peace, and let me go back to my mother, who is poor and old, and has need of me. [5]
- That west wind was fresh, cool, fragrant, and it carried a sweet, strange burden of far-off things--tidings of life in other climes, of sunshine asleep on other walls--of other places where reigned peace. [13]
- Then that house was complete, and its contentment and peace were made manifest to the world by this symbol, whose testimony is infallible. [5]
- This act of war in fancy, dress, with its two steps forward and one back, and the singing of a song, is one of the most fatal to the masculine peace of mind in the whole history of carnage. [4]
- His voice spoke war and peace in the contest with Great Britain. [7]
- For instance, he wanted the war parties (called) in before he started unarmed upon his mission of peace. [5]
- They keep well--the vultures--And by the way, Brinsmade, the man who gave me no peace at all at Memphis was from your city. [9]
- He lowered his voice and went on: "I did not ask whether you wished for peace or war--I know that every Persian prefers the labor of war to an inglorious idleness--but I wished to know what answer you would give the Massagetan warriors. [10]
- And then He visited me with sorrow, and, if I still mourn, I have peace, too, and a busy life. [11]
- We were in Vienna during the war in which Denmark fought alone against Austria and Prussia, and when it was over Bismarck came to Vienna to settle the terms of peace with the Emperor. [6]
- The city of Victoria was twinkling dim in the deep heart of her smoke-cloud, and getting ready to vanish and now we closed the field-glasses and sat down on our steamer chairs contented and at peace. [5]
- The house was very still, and the far-off, muffled rumble of omnibuses and cabs gave a background of dignity to this interior peace and luxurious quiet. [11]
- The air was very still, and a mantle of peace was spread over the tender scene. [11]
- But as the vengeance is in your hands, they will atone for this breach of the peace! [10]
- He had a vehement desire to be left in peace, and to avoid politics and political discussions forever--vain desire for the storekeeper of Coniston. [9]
- And all this vast, passionate love of mine is the strife of the soul for peace, for fruition. [11]
- It commands a varied and delicious prospect, and has an air of repose and peace. [4]
- What of true value, what of peace and security was contained in her present existence? [9]
- Take example by us; we are content with our own faith and leave others to enjoy theirs in peace. [10]
- Your father commissioned us to create peaceful Demeter, the patroness of agriculture, peace, marriage, and Arachne, the mortal who was the most skilful of spinners; for he is both a grain dealer and owner of spinning factories. [10]
- If they wanted us to call them kings and dukes, I hadn't no objections, 'long as it would keep peace in the family; and it warn't no use to tell Jim, so I didn't tell him. [5]
- She had taught us that faith and knowledge are things apart, and I felt that there could be no more peace for my soul if I suffered knowledge to meddle with faith. [10]
- They who rule us speak with foreign tongue, but their hearts desire our peace and a mutual regard. [11]
- But all of us have a little speck of fight underneath our peace and good-will to men, just a speck, for revolutions and great emergencies, you know,--so that we should not submit to be trodden quite flat by the first heavy-heeled aggressor that came along. [6]
- She had completely upset his life, increasingly distracted his mind until now he could imagine no peace unless he possessed her. [9]
- When it came upon us, all was peace and quiet. [7]
- If I enter upon this wide field of horticultural experiment, I shall leave peace behind; and I may expect the ground to open, and swallow me and all my fortune. [4]
- Occasionally, intruding faintly upon the countryside peace, she was aware of a distant humming sound that grew louder and louder until there shot roaring past her an automobile filled with noisy folk, leaving behind it a suffocating cloud of dust. [9]
- A peace stole upon me that I had not felt since I had looked upon his face before. [9]
- That faith, imposed upon me by self-interest in that ancient day, remains my faith today, and in it I find comfort, solace, peace, and never-failing joy. [5]
- Finally she gave up the unavailing struggle, cooled her burning face with cold water, and tightened the straps of her sandals to go to the temple; near the god himself she hoped she might in some degree recover the peace she could not find here. [10]
- When Jethro went up the stairs that afternoon, he found William Wetherell alone, looking out over the garden with a new peace and contentment in his eyes. [9]
- Then she grabbed up the basket and slammed it across the house and knocked the cat galley-west; and she said cle'r out and let her have some peace, and if we come bothering around her again betwixt that and dinner she'd skin us. [5]
- Why not give up the adventure, and come to this quiet, and this good peace, so shutting out the stir and violence of the world? [11]
- The world seemed untroubled and serene; but in this hidden but two stormy spirits broke the peace to which the place and the time were all entitled. [11]
- The reign of universal peace would begin then, to end no more forever.... [5]
- If I could understand and put it into intelligible words, I should need no stranger's counsel to regain my peace of mind. [10]
- All anxiety, apprehension, uncertainty, vanished out of these young people's hearts and left them filled with a great peace. [5]
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