Sentence examples for a token of surrender from inspiring English sources

Disarming is bitter medicine to the I.R.A., which sees it as a token of surrender.

Captain James Dacres, who was all of 28 years old, offered his sword in a token of surrender.

De Winter was immediately taken to see Duncan, the Dutch officer holding out his sword as a token of surrender.

Glasgow's crew hoisted a British flag as a token of their surrender and they were all rescued by British sailors in launches.

An account of an attack by the Indian army's Mhow Cavalry Brigade, on 1 December 1917 in northern France after promised tanks had failed to arrive, records: "Lieut Broadway had already killed two Germans with the sword when he was treacherously killed by a revolver shot by a German officer who raised one hand in token of surrender keeping the other behind his back.

When they were recognized, and the deceit of Litaviccus was discovered, the Aedui began to stretch out their hands in token of surrender and, casting away their arms, to beg for mercy.

Tradition identifies this as a snowball supplied at midsummer and a white calf surrendered but then killed and shared by landlord and tenant as a token of mutual esteem.

"It's a token of appreciation".

"Everybody is a token of something," Mr. Sherry said, "a token film composer, a token Romantic, even a token native New Yorker, like Charles Wuorinen".

But it is a token of seriousness.

So cake was a glue, and a token of affection.