truce of God

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And if these guarantees can not be denied them, how could they be other than barriers to competition, just as the truce of God, invented by the bishops, was a barrier to feudal wars?

From System of Economical Contradictions; or, the Philosophy of Misery by Proudhon, P.-J. (Pierre-Joseph)

There was a truce of God on both sides.

From Lord Milner's Work in South Africa From its Commencement in 1897 to the Peace of Vereeniging in 1902 by Worsfold, W. Basil (William Basil)

I entered, reverent of whatever shrine Guards piety and solace for my kind Or gives the soul a moment's truce of God, And shared decorous in the ancient rite 310 My sterner fathers held idolatrous.

From The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell by Lowell, James Russell

Do not even the sailors of war and trade peer across the tossing waters of the great deep, longing for a truce of God if only for an hour upon this winter morning?

From A Little Book for Christmas by Brady, Cyrus Townsend

In that month, the period of the second generation of the Halictus, there is a sort of truce of God: the parasite rests and the Bee works in peace.

From Bramble-Bees and Others by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander