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  • noun Plural form of safe-conduct.

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Examples

  • These men were eventually given safe-conducts that enabled them to travel back and forth between Italy and France to negotiate the king's release.

    The Captive King Julianne Douglas 2009

  • These men were eventually given safe-conducts that enabled them to travel back and forth between Italy and France to negotiate the king's release.

    Archive 2009-07-01 Julianne Douglas 2009

  • I told him we'd already figured that virtually everyone in known space is after us again, and that our safe-conducts were worth exactly nothing right now.

    The Wizard Of Karres Lackey, Mercedes 2004

  • And we will see those who turn up in the embassies, if Mr. Cantillo has not already given them safe-conducts.

    SPEAKS TO CITIZENS OF SANTIAGO 1959

  • Denis assured himself that they had all been making free with the wine bowl, and were in no mood to be particular about safe-conducts or the niceties of chivalrous war.

    The Short-story William Patterson Atkinson

  • Another notable fact is, that they showed everywhere passes of safe-conducts from the Emperor Sigismund.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866 Various

  • Barbour was given two other safe-conducts, one to allow him again to visit Oxford, and another to allow him to pass through England on his way to France.

    English Literature for Boys and Girls

  • Miss Falconer, I recalled, had said she could get through to Carrefonds; but glittering generalities were not likely to convince these sentries; one needed safe-conducts, passes, identity cards, and such concrete aids.

    The Firefly of France Marion Polk Angellotti 1936

  • Satisfied with the safe-conducts, the sentry gestured us forward, and his figure slipped out of my vision as the gray car purred on.

    The Firefly of France Marion Polk Angellotti 1936

  • At length, 4 January, 1433, a deputation of fifteen members, provided with safe-conducts and accompanied by a numerous train, arrived at

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913

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