This national disposition in regard to peacemaking was once the occasion of a serious misfortune to the tribe of Lenni-Lenape.
"Stories of New Jersey"
Frank Richard Stockton
It was after a visit of the Indians to the vessel of De Vries, that the peacemaking instinct took possession of the wife of one of the Indian chiefs; and quietly and stealthily, unperceived by her people, she managed to get on board the "Squirrel," when she informed the commander of the real object of his visitors, who had invited him to sail up Timber Creek.
"Stories of New Jersey"
Frank Richard Stockton
Not even by the casting of the most peacemaking of all dust, that of years and the grave, can it be said that these jars at last compacta quiescunt.
"A History of English Literature Elizabethan Literature"
George Saintsbury