Bulstrode felt that his mode of talking about Catholic countries, as if there were any truce with Antichrist, illustrated the usual tendency to unsoundness in intellectual men.
The Almighty knows what I've got on my mind—" "Then he knows more than I want to know," said Peter, laying down his stick with a show of truce which had a threat in it too, for he reversed the stick so as to make the gold handle a club in case of closer fighting, and looked hard at Solomon's bald head.
Then conscience granted a truce, and these curiously inconsistent pirates fell peacefully to sleep.
Within the past few days the Japanese government and the Tokyo metropolitan administration reached a truce in a long-running row over who should pay for the stadium which, under the new agreement, will result in Tokyo taxpayers footing about a quarter of the bill.
The truce that the two rivals for power concluded was violated almost immediately by Liu Bang, who also repeatedly declined Xiang Yu's offers to settle their conflict in hand-to-hand combat.
Thereafter the war among dragons and people went on incessantly for a decade and a truce was still not in the picture.
Hawkins," said he, "in the dog-watch, down came Doctor Livesey with a flag of truce.
"And what do you want with your flag of truce?
"Flag of truce!
