peace offering

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There can be no better way of making a Peace-offering than by helping to build up the health and strength of the new generation.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, June 18, 1919 by Various

Peace-offering, burnt-offering, sin-offering, the morning oblation, and the evening oblation—these with other ceremonies of a like character went to make what we know as the sacrificial ritual of the temple.

From A Short History of the Book of Common Prayer by Huntington, William Reed

King Magnus should marry King Inge's daughter Margaret, who afterwards was called Peace-offering.

From Heimskringla, or the Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson