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peaceful Adjective 1. not in a state of war or disagreement 2. calm or tranquil peacefully adv
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peaceful adjective 1. at peace, friendly, harmonious, amicable, cordial, nonviolent, without hostility, free from strife, on friendly or good terms << OPPOSITE hostile adjective 2. peace-loving, conciliatory, peaceable, placatory, irenic, pacific, unwarlike << OPPOSITE belligerent How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| But now that they have learned crafts through Hephaestus the famed worker, easily they live a peaceful life in their own houses the whole year round. "Dear young woman," I continued, when I was able to control my emotion, "you are happily remote from the sin and wickedness of the town, and I am sorry to speak of such things in so peaceful a spot--but as a strange chance has led me here, I must speak, must tell you that all wives are not so virtuous and faithful as you, I am sure, are. This is a very common course of things, even in the present state of the Union; but it was peculiarly the fortunes of the two extremes of society, in the peaceful and unenterprising colonies of Pennsylvania and New Jersey, |
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