Sentence examples for put down the sword from inspiring English sources

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Put to the sword.

If someone is put to the sword, he or she is killed or executed.

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Put down the sword and grab some popcorn".

"I'm a warrior, so it was hard for me to put down the sword," he said.

Combining the event "with one who explicitly called us to put down the sword and pick up the cross and love our enemies and turn the other cheek, it just makes no sense," he said.

Addressing his largely conservative readership, Christopher Bedford, the managing editor of the Daily Caller, chirped, "The first battle of the campaign is about to begin.... Put down the sword and grab some popcorn".

He's commanding us to put down the sword.

Those who live by the sword, die by the sword... Put down the sword".

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He said if Labor was prepared to "put down the swords" and abandon the "combat politics of the past" then he was prepared to talk.

Lazarus, Come Forth! and John's other recent books, such as Daniel Berrigan: Essential Writings; Put Down Your Sword and A Persistent Peace, are also available from www.amazon.com.

Lazarus, Come Forth! and John's other recent books, such as Daniel Berrigan: Essential Writings; Put Down Your Sword and A Persistent Peace, are available from www.amazon.com.

Lazarus, Come Forth! and John's other recent books, such as Daniel Berrigan: Essential Writings; Put Down Your Sword and A Persistent Peace, are available from Amazon.com.

No sooner do they put down the pen that signed a peace treaty in London, than they pick up the sword and declare war on Wigan.

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