Meaning of peacelessly | Babel Free

Definitions

In a peaceless manner.

Examples

“Slowly but ceaselessly / Holy or peacelessly / Go we on ever, / Fate weaving shrouds for us / Waiting with clouds for us, / On Death’s dark river.”

“The Rev. Jacob Bradley denies that he ever threatened to mob the Rev. T. J. Shores because of his Liberalism. He says he regards it the “spacious duty of the gospel to live peacelessly as they can among other minstrels—that it is entirely indifferous to him whether Shores votes for the Literals or the publicans—every man in the country has the inhesive right to promulgicate any sediments that suits his intellectuosity. Who can say that Jacob’s head is not level?—[Cairo Gazette.”

“Brooklet, gushing ceaselessly; / Mill-wheels, rushing peacelessly; / All ye merry wood-birds, ye / Gay and free, / Stop your joyful melody!”

““[…] All other agony / I’ll bear unmurmuring, but save me this!” / So pleaded Judas in the forest depths; / But, since that moment, now long decades gone, / The soul of Judas wanders peacelessly / Throughout the baseless realms of boundless space.”

“He could not stand passively by in wooden indifference to Shiona, nor to her people, nor could he ignore his conscience which tugged peacelessly at him.”

“He is unusual in that his intolerance and his pureness of vision haven’t made him into boot-boy, a Tory or a fascist. He is the opposite of these things; is ceaselessly, peacelessly contrary.”

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