Surely we should take it upon ourselves to extend the olive branch of reconciliation. From LearnThat.org. [www.yourdictionary.com]
Like the dove with the olive-branch of peace in its mouth. From Wordnik.com. [Our Little Brown House, A Poem of West Point Written for the New Year's Festival at the Cadets' Sabbath-school of the Methodist Episcopal Church, January 1, 1879] Reference
For this reason the olive-branch is a common emblem of peace. From Wordnik.com. [Among the Trees at Elmridge] Reference
Its left talon holds three arrows, and its right an olive-branch. From Wordnik.com. [The New England Magazine Volume 1, No. 6, June, 1886, Bay State Monthly Volume 4, No. 6, June, 1886] Reference
It has the normal olive-branch, but without the terminating crescent. From Wordnik.com. [The Land of Midian] Reference
Obama's olive-branch strategy may make America safer over the long term. From Wordnik.com. [Moderate to the Extreme] Reference
Accordingly she kept this promising olive-branch a good deal at her side. From Wordnik.com. [Villette] Reference
Archer's olive-branch politics are a dramatic break from Detroit's recent past. From Wordnik.com. [New Deal In Detroit] Reference
This eagle holds in its left talon three arrows, and in its right an olive-branch. From Wordnik.com. [The New England Magazine Volume 1, No. 6, June, 1886, Bay State Monthly Volume 4, No. 6, June, 1886] Reference
Invent “olive-branch martinis” to wash down the latkes for your annual Hanukah fest. From Wordnik.com. [Swell Holiday] Reference
This Ark isn't proposing to send out any old dove, either -- we've no use for an olive-branch. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 102, Jan. 2, 1892] Reference
After yet another olive-branch bombing halt, North Vietnamese intransigence in Paris increased. From Wordnik.com. [On Yankee Station]
Europe is an armed figure with sword: at her side are the caduceus, olive-branch, books and easel. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, August, 1878] Reference
‘Yes, there were family differences, but now that your aunt has extended the olive-branch —’. From Wordnik.com. [The Murder of Busy Lizzie]
They are the first doves that, after the long deluge of affliction, come to me with an olive-branch of peace. From Wordnik.com. [Napoleon and the Queen of Prussia] Reference
JERONYMO. my dearest Lady Clementina! let your sister Plarriet prevail upon you not to refuse the offered olive-branch!. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Charles Grandison] Reference
The anchor of hope, the olive-branch of peace, and the palm-branch as the sign of victory and martyrdom, were seen everywhere. From Wordnik.com. [Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood] Reference
But this shall not have the least weight with me, if you be pleased to hold out the olive-branch to me in the four requested words. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
Unlike the eagle of the earlier coins, it is with the right talon now that it grasps the olive-branch, and the left holds three arrows. From Wordnik.com. [The New England Magazine Volume 1, No. 6, June, 1886, Bay State Monthly Volume 4, No. 6, June, 1886] Reference
In their distress the cabinet proposed to Wellington to go to the United States with the olive-branch and the sword, to negotiate or conquer a peace. From Wordnik.com. [Albert Gallatin American Statesmen Series, Vol. XIII] Reference
Still, there were thousands incognizant of the olive-branch extended to them, and military operations had to be continued even within a day's journey from the capital. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands] Reference
The Broncos tender to Scheffler is a bit of an olive-branch. From Wordnik.com. [Mile High Report] Reference
I offered this as a conciliatory olive-branch to my enemies. From Wordnik.com. [Meaning of Truth] Reference
A truly noble offer of the olive-branch must not be misinterpreted. From Wordnik.com. [Springhaven : a Tale of the Great War] Reference
"I come bearing the olive-branch, Princess," he began, in smooth accents. From Wordnik.com. [Manasseh A Romance of Transylvania] Reference
"Some day I know she will hold out the olive-branch, but what if he refuses it?". From Wordnik.com. [The Call of the Blood] Reference
He thought of Gaspare's story of the fallen olive-branch upon which Salvatore had spat. From Wordnik.com. [The Call of the Blood] Reference
Such were the extravagant ideas which caused them to push aside the olive-branch of peace. From Wordnik.com. [The War in South Africa Its Cause and Conduct] Reference
I don't know but I prefer the 'waving of the bloody shirt' to this flaunting of the olive-branch. From Wordnik.com. [America To-day, Observations and Reflections] Reference
Let us embrace peace; let us seize the olive-branch Rome holds out, and close the wounds of Germany. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Controversy Between Christ and Satan] Reference
GRATIA -- reverse, BRITANNIA around the trite figure of Britannia with the spear and olive-branch: the date 1714 in the exergue. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 66, February 1, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.] Reference
He was an especial protégé of Lord Palmerston, and Lord Clarendon had placed the olive-branch in his hand with his instructions. From Wordnik.com. [Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis] Reference
Who better than he then, in this double capacity, to coil himself around the rebellion, and to carry the olive-branch in his mouth?. From Wordnik.com. [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference
Not that he feared the North -- but the South; how would the wayward, wilful, passionate South, receive his proffered olive-branch?. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Conspiracy, Complete] Reference
So in an olive-branch extending gesture, I 'offered' them the chance to play my radio quiz, for a selection of picnic-related prizes. From Wordnik.com. [HomePage - The Sun] Reference
A cradle rocked by Gesafam -- a little older and more bent, yet still hardy -- gave glimpses of another olive-branch, this one a girl. From Wordnik.com. [Darkness and Dawn] Reference
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