truce flag
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At 4 o'clock, with a white truce flag in his hand and a U. N. observer carrying a walkie-talkie behind him, Flint moved to the flat top of Mount Scopus.
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Exhausted by his long losing fight, Generalissimo Reed Smoot wearily hoisted the truce flag and in a thin voice announced his terms of surrender.
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The cannonading that echoes along London's Fleet Street was suddenly stilled, and Britain's battling press lords struck a truce flag to pay convivial tribute to one of their fellows.
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He bears a truce flag and is unarmed.
From The Boy Chums in the Forest or Hunting for Plume Birds in the Florida Everglades by Davis, J. Watson
An answering truce flag soon appeared from a plane above and the jaded horsemen, riding up, drew rein and waited.
From In the Clutch of the War-God by Hastings, Milo M. (Milo Milton)