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  • noun Plural form of peacebreaker.

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Examples

  • The next day or eight-day, there were more peacebreakers - not nearly so many as he'd seen elsewhere, but they were there, and he doubted that people in Hydlen were that different.

    Colors of Chaos Modesitt, L. E. 1999

  • All Fydel knows about peacekeeping is how to kill peacebreakers.

    Colors of Chaos Modesitt, L. E. 1999

  • In Fairhaven, peacebreakers went to the road crew or were turned to ash.

    Colors of Chaos Modesitt, L. E. 1999

  • Cerryl took his eyes off the notes and began to write, hoping he wouldn't have to detail turning too many peacebreakers into ash.

    Colors of Chaos Modesitt, L. E. 1999

  • He had trouble believing that even the wealthiest of factors would accept silksheen gotten from peacebreakers merely for coins.

    Colors of Chaos Modesitt, L. E. 1999

  • The chief design of the first peacebreakers was to stop the draft, that they might not be forced away from home to fight, against their wishes.

    Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No 3, September 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

  • Thieves and plunderers joined it, for the sole purpose doubtless of robbing in safety; probably the first peacebreakers themselves, not ordinarily pilferers, carried off the articles of value, which were scattered among the ruins their rage had created.

    Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No 3, September 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

  • "Eliasar thought you could just ride lancers around and kill peacebreakers and then people would get the idea.

    Colors of Chaos Modesitt, L. E. 1999

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