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Example sentences for "peace were"

  • Preliminaries of peace were set on foot (Oct.

  • Treaties of peace were concluded, and a strip of land between the lakes Erie and Ontario, four miles wide on each side of the river Niagara, was ceded to the British government.

  • Thus, on the day after the first landing of the British army on Louisiana soil, and after the first battle was fought at night, terms of peace were agreed on.

  • When articles of peace were signed on the twenty-fourth of December, the British Government knew that information of the event would not reach the belligerents in the Gulf of Mexico until some time in February.

  • Next day proposals, of peace were talked of; but they were deceptive.

  • He, however, published the contrary; but it was then of great importance that, an account of the evacuation should not reach England until the preliminaries of peace were signed, for which purpose M.

  • The death of Catherine had deprived the emperor of his hopes of help from Russia, and on April 18 preliminaries of peace were signed at Leoben.

  • The preliminaries of peace were discussed in parliament on the 17th, and almost every article was adversely criticised.

  • The preliminaries of peace were signed on November 3, and laid before parliament on the 29th.

  • Upon this indeed the Latins were heartily glad at what they had done, the advisers of peace were in high esteem.

  • That peace was faithfully observed, only when those at peace were voluntarily so; but that fidelity was not to be expected where they wished to establish slavery.

  • Terms of peace were agreed on; and one of the stipulations between the two states was the disbandment of the Sikh force.

  • Loyalists who ventured to return home under the treaty of peace were insulted, tarred and feathered, whipped, and even ham-strung.

  • When the terms of peace were announced, great was the bitterness among the Loyalists.

  • When Attalus had brought with him as an escort three hundred horse, the terms of peace were proposed.

  • Envoys from the Tectosagians met the consul at Ancyra, entreating him not to decamp until he had held a conference with their kings; that any conditions of peace were in their opinion preferable to war.

  • The natives held aloof whilst mutual offers of peace were made.

  • The terms of peace were referred to a Spanish-American Commission, which met in Paris on October 1, five commissioners and a secretary being appointed by each of the High Contracting Parties.

  • He occasionally visited Tetuan; and, after the preliminaries of peace were signed, he had communication with the Spanish authorities.

  • The fleet, with the exception of a small squadron off Cadiz, had returned to Gibraltar on the news that preliminaries of peace were signed.

  • And can you suppose, that if peace were made, he has not power to make it be observed by the people of France?

  • In the year 1797, the opinions of the minority on peace were those of the people, and I believe the same coincidence exists now upon the same subject.

  • Nations, which had fought valiantly and suffered agonies during the war, were treated with no more consideration than their enemies so far as knowledge of the exact terms of peace were concerned.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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