The new officer, whose name was Foster, also received various threatening letters, and among them the following:- This is to giv' notis, Captin Furster, av you'll live and let live, and be quite an' Pacable-divil a rason is there, why you need be afeard-but av you go on among the Leatrim boys-as that bloody thundhering ruffin Ussher, by the etarnal blessed Glory, you wul soon be streatched as he war-for the Leatrim boys isn't thim as wul put up with it.
"The Macdermots of Ballycloran"
Anthony Trollope
As Mr. Esmond sincerely regretted the part which he had taken, and as the august Prince who came to rule over England was the most Pacable of sovereigns, in a very little time the Colonel's friends found means to make his peace.
"The Virginians"
William Makepeace Thackeray
"Ah, George," interposed the more Pacable younger brother, "you ought to forget and forgive."
"The Virginians"
William Makepeace Thackeray