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• Your purposes are absolutely peaceful, as you assure me--peaceful, I mean, as regards the country on whose shores you are landing We shall land in Gloria,' the Dictator said, 'for the sake of Gloria, for the love of Gloria Yes, I know that well. —  The Dictator
• And above was the great dome of the sky--peaceful, pitiless, according to that which was within a man Krok scrambled ashore, and I handed him all that was left of our provisioning, then with a wave of the hand I turned and pulled clear of the traps and ran for Rozel Bay There was a little inn at the head of the bay, which had seen many a stranger sight than a wounded man. —  Carette of Sark
• The nation to-day has peace for the peaceful, and war for the turbulent. —  The World's Best Orations, Vol. 1 (of 10)
• Annalise, you see, was unable to appreciate peace, yet on the other hand she was very able to destroy the peace of other people; and Priscilla meant her cottage to be so peaceful--a temple, a holy place, within whose quiet walls sacred years were going to be spent in doing justly, in loving mercy, in walking humbly. —  The Princess Priscilla's Fortnight
• The enemy was ready and willing to excite these otherwise harmless, peaceful, and contented negroes to insurrection and wholesale butchery. —  History of Kershaw's Brigade

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