truce of God

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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

You are already informed, sir, of the violation of the truce of God, which occurred this morning.

From The Truce of God A Tale of the Eleventh Century by Miles, George Henry

Waking is strife: sleep is the truce of God!

From The House of Rimmon A Drama in Four Acts by Van Dyke, Henry

Don't you think you might call a—a sort of truce of God, for the moment, and tell me something about this office of yours?

From The War-Workers by Delafield, E.M.

And if these guarantees can not be denied them, how could they be other than barriers to competition, just as the truce of God, invented by the bishops, was a barrier to feudal wars?

From System of Economical Contradictions; or, the Philosophy of Misery by Proudhon, P.-J. (Pierre-Joseph)