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armistice
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  • This new division—the 5th—had been activated on November 11, 1943, Armistice Day.†   (source)
  • It was Nately's father's idea that he join the Air Corps, where he could train safely as a pilot while the Russians capitulated and the details of the armistice were worked out, and where, as an officer, he would associate only with gentlemen.†   (source)
  • "The great all-embracing, absolute Armistice, the end of the world!" he said.†   (source)
  • "The armistice, the end of World War One," Finn answered.†   (source)
  • MUSAN, KOREA, JAN. 16—Truce negotiators kept tempers in check today as they wrangled fruitlessly over terms of a Korean armistice.†   (source)
  • We might send a battle fleet to sea and fire a few shots before the armistice.†   (source)
  • Great China, speaking on behalf of all veto powers, accepted armistice and stated that our sky was now clear.†   (source)
  • Yet, the victory at New Orleans actually took place two weeks after the signing of the armistice in Europe.†   (source)
  • He had landed on the third wave during D-Day, fought his way across France, teamed up with a sharpshooting Texan, who together with Stone formed a murderously competent sniping team, and eventually crossed into Germany when the armistice was signed.†   (source)
  • I asked for armistice.†   (source)
  • The armistice is coming soon, I believe it now too.   (source)
    armistice = agreement to stop fighting a war
  • Everyone talks of peace and armistice.   (source)
  • "It was an opportunity they gave to some of the officers after the Armistice," he continued.   (source)
  • You command only my advance guard, and have no right to arrange an armistice without my order.   (source)
    armistice = agreement to temporarily stop fighting a war
  • She had a debut after the Armistice, and in February she was presumably engaged to a man from New Orleans.   (source)
    armistice = agreement to stop fighting a war
  • In June the battle of Friedland was fought, in which the Pavlograds did not take part, and after that an armistice was proclaimed.   (source)
    armistice = agreement to temporarily stop fighting a war
  • Rostov, who felt his friend's absence very much, having no news of him since he left and feeling very anxious about his wound and the progress of his affairs, took advantage of the armistice to get leave to visit Denisov in hospital.   (source)
  • The Tuesday of the armistice dawned warm and rainy.†   (source)
  • I escaped for a while-I went to France with the Army Medical Corps and remained there after the Armistice to study and practice.†   (source)
  • In the years immediately following the Armistice, I and millions of others were still caught up in the battles just finished.†   (source)
  • He had made a difficult journey of six days, pulling along the mule, who was dying of hunger, in order to arrive at the armistice on time.†   (source)
  • Soldiers at the front had the peculiar anxiety that comes only near the very end, and feared that they would be killed a month, a week, an hour, or even a minute before the armistice.†   (source)
  • In accordance with his arrangements there was no music, no fireworks, no pealing bells, no shouts of victory, or any other manifestation that might alter the mournful character of the armistice.†   (source)
  • The local authorities, after the armistice of Neerlandia, were mayors without initiative, decorative judges picked from among the peaceful and tired Conservatives of Macondo.†   (source)
  • After the armistice of Neerlandia, while Colonel Aureliano Buendia took refuge with his little gold fishes, he kept in touch with the rebel officers who had been faithful to him until the defeat.†   (source)
  • Then, when he rejected the Order of Merit awarded him by the president of the republic, even his most bitter enemies filed through the room asking him to withdraw recognition of the armistice and to start a new war.†   (source)
  • But when the approach of the armistice became known and they thought that he would return changed back into a human being, delivered at last for the hearts of his own people, the family feelings, dormant for such a long time, were reborn stronger than ever.†   (source)
  • One week before the armistice, when he entered the house without an escort, preceded by two barefoot orderlies who deposited on the porch the saddle from the mule and the trunk of poetry, all that was left of his former imperial baggage, she saw him pass by the sewing room and she called to him.†   (source)
  • On the eve of the armistice, when no single object that would let him be remembered was left in the house, he took the trunk of poetry to the bakery when Santa Sofia de la Piedad was making ready to light the oven.†   (source)
  • It was an operation that was so timely, drastic, and effective that two months after the armistice, when Colonel Aureliano Buendia had recovered, his most dedicated conspirators were dead or exiled or had been assimilated forever into public administration.†   (source)
  • Six months before, when she had heard talk about the armistice, Ursula had opened up and swept out the bridal chamber and had burned myrrh in the corners, thinking that he would come back ready to grow old slowly among Remedios' musty dolls.†   (source)
  • He confirmed the fact to him that the leaders of the party had indeed established contact with the rebel leaders in the interior and were on the verge of arranging an armistice in exchange for three cabinet posts for the Liberals, a minority representation in the congress, and a general amnesty for rebels who laid down their arms.†   (source)
  • He had one of us apes summarize the negotiated treaty of New Delhi, discuss how it ignored prisoners of war …. and, by implication, dropped the subject forever; the armistice became a stalemate and prisoners stayed where they were — on one side; on the other side they were turned loose and, during the Disorders, made their way home — or not if they didn't want to.†   (source)
  • Thus an armistice was signed and relations, if not cordial, were at least established.†   (source)
  • She spoke a few soft words to Dilcey who nodded kindly, as though an unspoken armistice existed in their old feud.†   (source)
  • It was like an armistice with the guns silent on either side: you could imagine the whole world listening to what they had never heard before - peace.†   (source)
  • When told of some unlooked-for recovery, they made a show of interest, but actually received the news with the stolid indifference that we may imagine the fighting man in a great war to feel who, worn out by the incessant strain and mindful only of the duties daily assigned to him, has ceased even to hope for the decisive battle or the buglecall of armistice.†   (source)
  • Do you mind…if we just sit here for a little while longer…and not talk about that…but just talk, as if everything were right…just an armistice for half an hour out of years….†   (source)
  • Bill had eaten at the restaurant in 1918, and right after the armistice, and Madame Lecomte made a great fuss over seeing him.†   (source)
  • That in itself was significant, because she scarcely ever set foot in the street when snow had fallen after that icy Armistice Day when she had twisted her ankle.†   (source)
  • Now she was completely alone and facing across the dinner table and without support now even from Ellen (at this time Ellen went through a complete metamorphosis, emerging into her next lustrum with the complete finality of actual rebirth); —facing across the table the foe who was not even aware that he sat there not as host and brother-in-law but as the second party to an armistice.†   (source)
  • You had to know, to get this as I did, that on Armistice Day of 1922, when Grandma turned her ankle coming down the stairs at eleven o'clock while the factories brewed up their solemn celebrating noise and she should have been standing still, Five Properties picked her up while she was spitting and wincing and rushed her to the kitchen.†   (source)
  • …photograph which was not her face, not her child; she just waked the next morning and they were gone and only the letter, the note, remaining, the note written by Henry since doubtless he refused to allow Bon to write—this announcement of the armistice, the probation, and Judith acquiescing up to that point, who would have refused as quickly to obey any injunction of her father as Henry had been to defy him yet who did obey Henry in this matter—not the male relative, the brother, but…†   (source)
  • The doctor could not tell if Tarrou had found peace, now that all was over, but for himself he had a feeling that no peace was possible to him henceforth, any more than there can be an armistice for a mother bereaved of her son or for a man who buries his friend.†   (source)
  • …that mutually recognised though unstated and undefined point and both doubtless aware that when that point was reached she would, and with the same calm, the same refusal to accept or give because of any traditional weakness of sex, recall the armistice and face him as a foe, not requiring or even wishing that Bon be present to support her, doubtless even refusing to allow him to intervene if he were, fighting the matter out with Henry like a man first before consenting to revert to…†   (source)
  • …I find him gone, thinking of the two of them, the sombre vengeful woman who was his mother and the grim rocklike man who had looked at him every day for ten days with absolutely no alteration of expression at all, facing one another in grim armistice after almost thirty years in that rich baroque drawing room in that house which he called home since apparently everybody seemed to have to have a home, the man who he was now sure was his father not humble now either (and he, Bon, proud…†   (source)
  • …actions as two birds leave a limb at the same instant; that rapport not like the conventional delusion of that between twins but rather such as might exist between two people who, regardless of sex or age or heritage of race or tongue, had been marooned at birth on a desert island: the island here Sutpen's Hundred; the solitude, the shadow of that father with whom not only the town but their mother's family as well had merely assumed armistice rather than accepting and assimilating.†   (source)
  • Though the armistice with Germany was signed a few weeks after her coming to Washington, the work of the bureau continued.†   (source)
  • The letters were divided into two classes, of which the first class, up to about the time of the armistice, was of marked pathological turn, and of which the second class, running from thence up to the present, was entirely normal, and displayed a richly maturing nature.†   (source)
  • For a year broken only by Terry Wickett's return after the Armistice, and by the mockeries of that rowdy intelligence, Martin was in a grind of drudgery.†   (source)
  • But when Evans (Rezia who had only seen him once called him "a quiet man," a sturdy red-haired man, undemonstrative in the company of women), when Evans was killed, just before the Armistice, in Italy, Septimus, far from showing any emotion or recognising that here was the end of a friendship, congratulated himself upon feeling very little and very reasonably.†   (source)
  • By July 23 the Great Eastern was lying no farther than 800 kilometers from Newfoundland when it received telegraphed news from Ireland of an armistice signed between Prussia and Austria after the Battle of Sadova.†   (source)
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