truce of God
Example Sentences
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The truce of God, so often and so ineffectually proclaimed by the clergy of the eleventh century, was an obvious imitation of this ancient custom.
From History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1 by Milman, Henry Hart
The truce of God set apart the days between Thursday and Monday of each week as a time of peace, when private quarrels should be suspended.
From A History of English Prose Fiction by Tuckerman, Bayard
Waking is strife; sleep is the truce of God!
From The Poems of Henry Van Dyke by Van Dyke, Henry
Do not even the sailors of war and trade peer across the tossing waters of the great deep, longing for a truce of God if only for an hour upon this winter morning?
From A Little Book for Christmas by Brady, Cyrus Townsend
Waking is strife: sleep is the truce of God!
From The House of Rimmon A Drama in Four Acts by Van Dyke, Henry
