Crossword clues for makepeace
Wiktionary
n. (context rare English) A peacemaker; one who reconciles persons at variance with one another; a composer of strife; an adjuster of differences.
Wikipedia
Makepeace is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Chris Makepeace (born 1964), Canadian film and television actor
- George Makepeace Towle (1841–1893)
- Harry Makepeace (1881–1952), English sportsman
- John Makepeace (born 1939), British furniture designer and maker
- John Makepeace Bennett (1921–2010), computer scientist
- Jonathan Makepeace (1774–1850), American manufacturer of snuff tobacco and politician
- Mary Lou Makepeace, activist
- Reginald Makepeace (1887–1918), British World War I flying ace
- Troy Makepeace (born 1979), Australian rules footballer
- William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863), novelist
Usage examples of "makepeace".
Joanna Makepeace taught as head of English in a comprehensive school, before leaving full-time work to write.
But not many days after his mother died, he packed his bundle and gave what pieces there were in the house to Kate Makepeace, who was by this time widowed, and the rest to Bill Lee who had just got married and had a one-room shanty round the other side of the quarry from Kate.
September, 1807, when this young man was a boy of seven and a half years old, he was returning along the quarry track to the cottage of a woman called Kate Makepeace, and there something happened to him and his father.
It was this woman, Kate Makepeace, who next morning found the boy hanging from between the branches of a bush whilst some distance away his father was found dead under what appeared to be a stone fall.
It never did occur to him to do what Makepeace Smith asked, and fix those other brokedown stoves.
Belches from the sea, and now the smithy would float all that way, get swallered up and belched out, and someday she'd just be minding her own business and some cloud would break up and plop that smithy down as neat as you please, old Makepeace Smith still ching ching chinging away.
Belches from the sea, and now the smithy would float all that way, get swallered up and belched out, and someday she’d just be minding her own business and some cloud would break up and plop that smithy down as neat as you please, old Makepeace Smith still ching ching chinging away.
It was sure that Makepeace didn't try no legal tricks to try to get that plow back from Alvin wherever he was.
It was sure that Makepeace didn't try no legal tricks to try to get that plow back from Alvin-- wherever he was.
He’d heard the rumors flying hither and yon about the golden plow and how it was stolen from a blacksmith that Alvin prenticed with, but he never thought Makepeace would have the face to take it to court, where he’d be proved a liar for sure.
For dessert there are three delicacies, each from a recipe handed down through Gwendolyn Savage's family, the Makepeaces of Raleigh, North Carolina: a pumpkin pie with whipped cream, an airy prune whip, chocolate puddings in fluted little half pint cups.