31 adjectives to describe truces

450 HENRY G. LIDDELL (When wars and pestilence had laid a heavy burden upon the Roman people, there appears to have been a period in which internal commotions and civil strife were stilled, and the quarrels of patricians and plebeians gave way to temporary truce.

IX M. WADDINGTON AS PRIME MINISTER There had been a respite, a sort of armed truce, in political circles as long as the exposition lasted, but when the Chambers met again in November, it was evident that things were not going smoothly.

This unofficial truce had lasted about twenty minutes, and succeeded more in restoring good humor and joy of life among our soldiers than a trainload of provisions would have done.

It must not be a mere truce.

They, too, were relieved, though more by the momentary truce than by anything else.

From happy tears to woeful smiles, from peace Eternal to a brief and hollow truce, How have I fallen!when 'tis truth we lose, Sense triumphs o'er all adverse impulses.

[Fr.], cartel^. hollow truce, pax in bello [Lat.]; drawn battle.

He restored the captured prince to liberty, and also agreed to pay him a yearly tribute, on condition of his entering into a solemn truce for nine years.

The next day was employed by both parties in burying their dead, under a tacit truce.

Fibs dont make lasting truces either.

There was no war, though talk of it had little truce in those days; but the cardinal nephews were busy in Ferrara and Ancona with the marshaling of troops, and four of the princes of the Church had been appointed by the Holy Fathervice-regent of the Prince of Peaceto superintend his military operations and prepare his army of forty thousand infantry and four thousand cavalry!

The effect produced by this matrimonial truce (for it was unfortunately nothing more, and lasted only for the short space of three weeks) was of the most happy description.

It is the mediaeval "God's truce" celebrated in the nineteenth century.

He was the one person with whom the Foreign Powers would be most likely to treat, as it was to his influence, rumour said, that the Legations owed the merciful truce during the Siege.

Sir, noble Sir. Jam. Be at peace then presently, Immediatley take honest and fair truce With your good wife, and shake hands with that Gentleman; H'as honour'd ye too much, and doe it cheerfully.

"I thought that frequent truces would be negotiated to give the opposing armies an opportunity to collect their wounded and bury their dead.

It was almost as if the monotonous truce of noonday had been darkened by a huge, composite, masculine shadow, made up in some mysterious way of the ridiculous Serbian and his blood-red dawn, and this man Stillman, who had a wife, and Flint, with hands so ready to flick threads from her sloping shoulders.

If he were allowed to come peaceably to Mecca and perform the pilgrimage, it was conceivable that a permanent truce might be agreed upon by the Kureisch, and the deed itself could not but enhance his prestige among the Bedouins.

Tacitly, it was as if we had treated together; a treaty that bound me to observe a perpetual truce.

When the preliminary truce had been made Christian marched his forces homeward, and disbanded them a fortnight before Christmas, leaving a garrison at Holston, Great Island.

Here that hero Oceola, chief of the Seminoles, died not long before, in captivity, from excessive grief, caused by the treachery of certain American officers, who, under a pretended truce, seized him and his attendant warriors.

They negotiated with the Duke of Burgundy, in the hope of detaching him from the English cause; and they even concluded with him a secret, local, and temporary truce.

Our bugles had "sung truce," the war cloud had lifted, the invaded sky was once more free of "the grim geometry of Mars," and though very few households could celebrate the greatest of anniversaries with unbroken ranks, the mercy of reunion was granted to many homes.

Admiring their spirit they not only made a much more favorable truce with them than with the rest [lacuna] (Mai, p.158.)

[Footnote 3: The heralds who proclaimed throughout Hellas the approach of the Olympic games, and an universal solemn truce during their celebration.]

31 adjectives to describe  truces