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Grammar : Noun



Définition of olive branch

  • noun peace offering
Example sentences :
  • The dove did not bring the olive branch of her own volition.
  • Extract from : « Commentary on Genesis, Vol. II » by Martin Luther
  • I am sure that it bears to the world the olive branch of peace.
  • Extract from : « Doctor Jones' Picnic » by S. E. Chapman
  • The shield was flanked, on the right by an olive branch, on the left by a deer's antlers.
  • Extract from : « Notre-Dame de Paris » by Victor Hugo
  • Like the bearer of the olive branch, he too was a herald of glad tidings.
  • Extract from : « The Wreck of the Nancy Bell » by J. C. Hutcheson
  • The Olive Branch was completed to my satisfaction and to that of all who saw her.
  • Extract from : « The Cruise of the Mary Rose » by William H. G. Kingston
  • I offered the olive branch, and he refused it, and now he can have all the war he wants.
  • Extract from : « With Hoops of Steel » by Florence Finch Kelly
  • I was hoping I might be allowed to extend you the olive branch.
  • Extract from : « The Girl Scouts in Beechwood Forest » by Margaret Vandercook
  • If he was to serve his country, it must be by waving the battle flag and not the olive branch.
  • Extract from : « Mexico » by Susan Hale
  • In one hand he held the olive branch, in the other the sword.
  • Extract from : « The Thirty Years' War » by Samuel Rawson Gardiner
  • Granting that the olive branch was in one hand, what was in the other?
  • Extract from : « Thirty Years' View (Vol. II of 2) » by Thomas Hart Benton

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