Adjective : a peaceable person; a peaceable disposition. ,in peaceable periods; a peaceable adjustment of a dispute. From Dictionary.com.
Will, therefore, a compliance unto this length better our condition? will it deliver us from the severest reflections of being persons unpeaceable and intolerable?. From Wordnik.com. [A Discourse concerning Evangelical Love, Church Peace, and Unity] Reference
And therefore, such peace-makers as these before-mentioned do seldom do much greater good than to quiet their own consciences in the discharge of so great a duty, and to moderate some few, and save them from further guilt, and to leave behind them, when they are dead, a witness against a wilful, self-conceited, unpeaceable world. From Wordnik.com. [The Reformed Pastor] Reference
With the same hungry heart, and unpeaceable breast. From Wordnik.com. [Lucile] Reference
Christians are factious and unpeaceable, so far they are no Christians. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Dr. John Tillotson, Late Archbishop of Canterbury. Vol. 06.] Reference
"Woman," thought Nietzsche, "is essentially unpeaceable, like the cat, however well she may have assumed the peaceable demeanour.". From Wordnik.com. [The Task of Social Hygiene] Reference
That same stomachus cedere nescius found in most, is the thing that foments quarrels, and keeps men at such unpeaceable distances. From Wordnik.com. [Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. VII.] Reference
I. Israel sent a peaceable message to Sihon king of the Amorites (v. 21), but received an unpeaceable return, worse than that of the. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume I (Genesis to Deuteronomy)] Reference
From that time until the pair are forever united at the altar, it grows, and with marriage it begins to bring forth the unpeaceable fruits of endless dissensions. From Wordnik.com. [The Secret of a Happy Home (1896)] Reference
Many men talk much of Antichrift, bit ftich as profefs the Gofpel, and yet are of unpeaceable, fnar -. iingy contending fpirits, they have the fpirit of Antichrift, and they doe not confeflc that Jefus Chrift is come in the flefli. From Wordnik.com. [Irenicvm: To the Lovers of Truth & Peace ...] Reference
It looks hard at Darwin’s growing disenchantment with Christianity, especially the concept of Providence, and how poorly it fits Darwin the naturalist’s knowledge of a very unpeaceable kingdom. From Wordnik.com. ['Creation:' A drama about the life of Charles Darwin - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
Away, unpeaceable dog, or I'll spurn thee hence!. From Wordnik.com. [Timon of Athens] Reference
Away, unpeaceable dog! or Ill spurn thee hence. From Wordnik.com. [Act I. Scene I. Timon of Athens] Reference
Away, unpeaceable dog, or I’ll spurn thee hence!. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Timon of Athens] Reference
Nay, and what is more, in the great concernment of his life, rather than occasion a tumult, or any unpeaceable disorder, though amongst persons then about the greatest villainy that ever the sun saw; he quitted the grand right of self-preservation: which case, though it was peculiar and extraordinary, and so obliges not us to every particular of the action; yet the design of peaceableness, which induced him to such a behaviour, calls for our imitation in general, that we should be willing to brook many high inconveniences, rather than be the occasions of any public disturbance. From Wordnik.com. [Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. VII.] Reference
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