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  • I think it's either people who know how unsound Megrahi's conviction is and are pleased that the government have released him, or people who are just peased that we have a government who will stand up against the grain.

    SNP winning the debate on Megrahi Jeff 2009

  • He began to reckon up how much that was painful, perhaps even how much secret and unap-peased sorrow underlay the sweetness of the phrase; and yet to him it brought no suffering.

    Swann's Way 2003

  • THUS when the enemy fleeth and the city is peased, [78] then beginneth a man to prove what the high peace of God is that passeth man's wit.

    The Cell of Self-Knowledge : seven early English mystical treatises printed by Henry Pepwell in 1521 Henry Pepwell 1902

  • Nevertheless, the whole nation laments and beseeches God that his anger may be ap - peased, being in grief that it should, as it were, have to cut off

    City of the Sun 1901

  • I was not going to get any word from home and was much peased to here and was much obliged to John for [for] the stamp and sheat of paper I cant neathe paper or stamp here and I want you to write and send them to me accationaly I can by paper at 2 cents

    Franklin County: Thad Donely to Henry A. Bitner, January 7, 1863 Thad Donely 1863

  • I was not going to get any word from home and was much peased to here and was much obliged to John for [for] the stamp and sheat of paper I cant neathe paper or stamp here and I want you to write and send them to me accationaly I can by paper at 2 cents

    Letter to Henry A. Bitner 1863

  • Anyway, I was peased to read that "Retailers confront rampant rudeness of mobile addicts with a no mobile ban".

    It's A Matter Of Opinion Bozwell 2010

  • Oo peased wi 'me? "and I had thought it a good opportunity to make a few salutary remarks upon her late moral career, and said:" No, I am not pleased with you. "

    Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow 1893

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