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Sentences ending with truce

Another emissary rode to the Russian line to announce the peace negotiations and to offer the Russian army the three days' truce. [2]
I read it to Clarence, and said I proposed to send it by a flag of truce. [5]
They retired to the upper end of the "Meadows," resumed civilized apparel, washed off their paint, and then, heavily armed, drove down in wagons to the beleaguered emigrants, bearing a flag of truce! [5]
He shall have the honour of a flag of truce. [11]
It was arranged that he should advance, holding out a flag of truce. [11]
Others take their revenge in a career reckless, but within social conventions, going their own way in a sort of matrimonial truce. [4]
You will be provided with a flag of truce. [9]
From the Death of William the Silent till the Twelve Years' Truce. [6]
Remember the flag of truce! [5]
But I would not yield it, telling him it should be a guarantee of truce. [11]

Short sentences using truce

Why not call a truce? [11]

More example sentences with the word truce in them

From the Twelve Years' Truce to the Peace of Westphalia. [6]
Sea and shore were in a kind of truce, and the ocean south wind brought cool refreshment but no incentive. [4]
They talk to us of the rules of war, of chivalry, of flags of truce, of mercy to the unfortunate and so on. [2]
In order to understand this quarrel, which was not by any means appeased by this truce, and to determine Captain Smith's responsibility for it, it is necessary to examine all the witnesses. [4]
It proposed a truce, and a meeting with himself at a village near, for conference upon the surrender of Detricand's small army. [11]
Then came a truce to bury the dead, to bring back what was left of the living. [9]
But a truce to these matters; _I_ believe your father. [5]
To be able to crush it absolutely he awaited the arrival of the rest of the troops who were on their way from Vienna, and with this object offered a three days' truce on condition that both armies should remain in position without moving. [2]
I know that this is only a truce until the parties recover their exhausted energies. [4]
From now on there can be no compromise, no truce, no peace until they are exterminated. [9]
At daybreak on the seventeenth, a French officer who had come with a flag of truce, demanding an audience with the Russian Emperor, was brought into Wischau from our outposts. [2]
Ferrol consulted with the officers, advising a truce and parley, offering himself as mediator to induce Nic to surrender. [11]
So they set sail in a steamer for America--and the third day out, when their sea-sickness called truce and permitted them to take their first meal at the public table, behold there sat the lawyer! [5]
Murat declared that negotiations for peace were already proceeding, and that he therefore offered this truce to avoid unnecessary bloodshed. [2]
I take off my hat as I stroll into the garden and look about; and it does seem as if Nature had sounded a truce. [4]
There--if that speech moves you any, let's fly the flag of truce, with the understanding that I am conquered and confess it. [5]
At this exciting moment, while calling to his men, he saw what struck him dumb--his son hurrying forward with a flag of truce to Lord Rippingdale! [11]
Wintzingerode was not merely to agree to the truce but also to offer terms of capitulation, and meanwhile Kutuzov sent his adjutants back to hasten to the utmost the movements of the baggage trains of the entire army along the Krems-Znaim road. [2]
Joan dictated a letter to the citizens of Rheims to encourage them to keep heart in spite of the truce, and promising to stand by them. [5]
A truce was Kutuzov's sole chance of gaining time, giving Bagration's exhausted troops some rest, and letting the transport and heavy convoys (whose movements were concealed from the French) advance if but one stage nearer Znaim. [2]
The burgomaster had intended to have her conveyed in a litter, accompanied by a flag of truce, as far as the Spanish lines, and the doctor no longer opposed her wish to travel. [10]
Then we'll send in a flag of truce, and parley with this Mattingley, for his jests are worth attention and politeness. [11]
De Troyes and Iberville, thinking that a truce and parley were meant, returned the salute with their swords, and presently the canoes of both parties made over to the shore. [11]
When Sunday came, however, there seemed to be truce between the villages. [11]
He called up, however, in a clear, distinct voice: "Breaker of parole, keep your truce! [11]
Selamlik Pasha held his peace in fear; and the Khedive and Cairo never knew why there was a truce to battle between Dicky Donovan and that vile Pasha called Trousers. [11]
Bagration replied that he was not authorized either to accept or refuse a truce and sent his adjutant to Kutuzov to report the offer he had received. [2]
What vegetable passions have run the whole gamut of ambition, selfishness, greed of place, fruition, satiety, and now rest here in the truce of exhaustion! [4]
That day Richambeau had sent his flag of truce, and the end of their stay on Perch Rock was come. [11]
And more still--he had made a new truce and a long one, in which he had agreed to leave Paris unthreatened and unmolested, and go back to the Loire whence he had come! [5]
The fifteen-day truce had just been concluded with the Duke of Burgundy, and we would go and tarry at Gien until he should deliver Paris to us without a fight. [5]
There had long been a truce between the opposing forces, but according to the Guide-Book, Raynauld of Chatillon, Lord of Kerak, broke it by plundering a Damascus caravan, and refusing to give up either the merchants or their goods when Saladin demanded them. [5]
And it may be added, for the information of strangers, that they thoroughly knew each other, and were participants in a knowledge that put each at disadvantage, so that their wedded life was a permanent truce. [4]
My life shall be a challenge, not a truce! [6]
Presently there drew away from Phips's fleet a boat carrying a subaltern with a flag of truce, who was taken blindfold to the Chateau St. Louis. [11]
We follow, you ask for truce. [11]
I comfort myself and you with the hope that your son is alive, for otherwise he would have been mentioned among the officers found on the field of battle, a list of whom has been sent me under flag of truce. [2]
I saw chivalry and flags of truce in 1805; they humbugged us and we humbugged them. [2]
Ian's truce was also based on a belief that Gaston would make skittles of things. [11]
Then conscience granted a truce, and these curiously inconsistent pirates fell peacefully to sleep. [5]
The offer of a truce gave the only, and a quite unexpected, chance of saving the army. [2]
At that moment a flag of truce was flung to the breeze from the walls, and Troyes surrendered without firing a shot. [5]
Let us fly a flag of truce for a while. [5]
Presently he saw a boat drawing away with the flag of truce in the hands of a sous-lieutenant. [11]

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