armistice

• It will be a most pleasing duty for me to report to our sovereign a conduct so truly meritorious Major-General Brock, to Sir George Prevost KINGSTON, September 4, 1812 Upon my arrival here an hour ago, Captain Fulton delivered me your excellency's dispatch, dated the 31st ultimo, enclosing a letter from General Dearborn, in which the president's disapproval of the armistice is announced. —  The Life and Correspondence of Sir Isaac Brock
• Doubtless the armistice was all the better kept in consequence of some tolerably intelligible hints from the higher powers, that the peace of the ship was no longer to be invaded to make sport for those who were evidently more idle than they ought to be, and for whom, therefore, a little additional work might possibly be found. —  The Lieutenant and Commander
• But as soon as the armistice was reached in November 1918, workers began to demand wage increases.
• Now then, so soon as the armistice was agreed upon, the war upon the ocean, including the blockade, having ceased, the whole of this cotton, tobacco, and naval stores, would be shipped to Europe, or partly to Nassau, on the way to Europe, and this enormous amount realized by the Confederate government in gold. —  The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No. 6, December 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
• The front door opened to admit them, and shut quickly behind them as they passed in Seńora Paez," said Zuroaga to a shadow in the unlighted hall, "the armistice is ended, but I shall command my Oaxaca regiment in the fighting which is now sure to come. —  Ahead of the Army

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