Synonyms for olive branch

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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