1 "I am speaking ze truce," replied the hussar with a smile.
2 Murat declared that negotiations for peace were already proceeding, and that he therefore offered this truce to avoid unnecessary bloodshed.
3 Another emissary rode to the Russian line to announce the peace negotiations and to offer the Russian army the three days' truce.
4 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.
5 The offer of a truce gave the only, and a quite unexpected, chance of saving the army.
6 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.
7 They talk to us of the rules of war, of chivalry, of flags of truce, of mercy to the unfortunate and so on.
8 He's a nice man, General Hood, and I know I could make him give me an escort and a flag of truce to get me through the lines.
9 There was a truce in the kitchen and no sound of quarreling from Peter, Mammy and Cookie floated up to her.
10 There was a corporeal humility in looking up at him; and a white man standing before him seemed a white flag come to beg truce of a fortress.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 27. Knights and Squires. 11 The truce still existed, and with a roll and beat of the drum, and covered by a little white flag, Duncan left the sally-port, within ten minutes after his instructions were ended.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 15 12 The instant Uncas had struck the blow, he moved out of the circle, and cast his eyes up to the sun, which was just gaining the point, when the truce with Magua was to end.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 31 13 Miss Ophelia and the physician alone felt no encouragement from this illusive truce.
14 Let no kindness nor truce be between the nations.
15 Third is Eurytion, thy brother, O Pandarus, great in renown, thou who of old, when prompted to shatter the truce, didst hurl the first shaft amid the Achaeans.