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  • Offer not only peace-offerings but holocausts unto God.

    Letter to a Friend 2007

  • In return for these peace-offerings and smuggled tokens of submission, comes a tolerably gracious letter from my

    The Virginians 2006

  • On the rejection of his peace-offerings, our warlike young

    The Virginians 2006

  • The aborigines are always anxious to borrow the dogs from the farmhouses: the use of them, the offal when an animal is killed, and some milk from the cows, are the peace-offerings of the settlers, who push farther and farther towards the interior.

    Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

  • He said all this and more, as he looked round, cheerfully accepting peace-offerings and listening to many consolatory words.

    My Tropic Isle 2003

  • The aborigines are always anxious to borrow the dogs from the farmhouses: the use of them, the offal when an animal is killed, and some milk from the cows, are the peace-offerings of the settlers, who push farther and farther towards the interior.

    Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

  • James, until poor Lope was driven to despair, and found that unless he got out of the reach of this holy friar, he should have to make peace-offerings to every saint in the calendar.

    The Alhambra 2002

  • James, until poor Lope was driven to despair, and found that unless he got out of the reach of this holy friar, he should have to make peace-offerings to every saint in the calendar.

    The Alhambra 2002

  • I have hated, I have despised your feast-days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies: wherefore, though ye offer Me your burnt-offerings and sacrifices, I will not accept them; neither will I regard the peace-offerings of your presence.

    ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001

  • Not in every place, brethren, are the daily sacrifices offered, or the peace-offerings, or the sin-offerings and the trespass-offerings, but in Jerusalem only.

    ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001

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