truce flag

Example Sentences

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Exhausted by his long losing fight, Generalissimo Reed Smoot wearily hoisted the truce flag and in a thin voice announced his terms of surrender.

From Time Magazine Archive

At 4 o'clock, with a white truce flag in his hand and a U. N. observer carrying a walkie-talkie behind him, Flint moved to the flat top of Mount Scopus.

From Time Magazine Archive

The cannonading that echoes along London's Fleet Street was suddenly stilled, and Britain's battling press lords struck a truce flag to pay convivial tribute to one of their fellows.

From Time Magazine Archive

But the anxious eyes of warrior and prophet had seen the Spirit cloud rising, at last, into the sky; high pealed their whoops and chants again; a volley of bullets answered the truce flag.

From Boys' Book of Indian Warriors and Heroic Indian Women by Sabin, Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand)

He bears a truce flag and is unarmed.

From The Boy Chums in the Forest or Hunting for Plume Birds in the Florida Everglades by Davis, J. Watson