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As fighting sputtered once more along the desolate and peaceless border, the U.S. and Britain formally warned both Israel and Egypt that they would range themselves against whichever side started a "preventive war."

From Time Magazine Archive

Begin takes a peaceless prize The ceremony had been planned as a duet, but it came off as more of a solo.

From Time Magazine Archive

Those words did but awaken within me when I was peaceless in the night.

From The Turtles of Tasman by London, Jack

If Martha should not have been cumbered with the outward attention to Christ Himself, cares for others on plea of duty can never be enough excuse for a peaceless mind.

From A Brief Memoir with Portions of the Diary, Letters, and Other Remains, of Eliza Southall, Late of Birmingham, England by Southall, Eliza

"Such was the people's peaceless token, the suffering of the wretched." l. 57-9.

From Notes and Queries, Number 27, May 4, 1850 by Various