truce of God
Example Sentences
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The truce of God being past, the battle was now on again.
From The High Heart by King, Basil
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.
It was Easter Sunday, but no truce of God.
From From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917 by Gibbs, Philip
I entered, reverent of whatever shrine Guards piety and solace for my kind Or gives the soul a moment's truce of God, And shared decorous in the ancient rite 310 My sterner fathers held idolatrous.
From The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell by Lowell, James Russell
Waking is strife; sleep is the truce of God!
From The Poems of Henry Van Dyke by Van Dyke, Henry
