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It means truceless war against the spirit of selfishness, against everything that tends to drag us down, against the law of sin in our own members.

From Religious Reality by Rawlinson, A. E. J. (Alfred Edward John)

It means a truceless war against low ideals and tolerated evils in the world about us.

From Religious Reality by Rawlinson, A. E. J. (Alfred Edward John)

"The Arctics hawk-up their haunted heart, and raucous, spue; and north-winds, wawling calls, outstart, to droop anew; the clouds like scouts updart, depart, and truceless do, and droop anew."

From The Lord of the Sea by Shiel, M. P. (Matthew Phipps)

But all the rest,   We men, will still go armour-girt, until   We wrest from this our truceless war a peace   That shall not shame us!

From The Fall of Troy by Way, Arthur Sanders

But from the time when thy father stirred up truceless warfare against the Christians, the men have been banished hence, and their teaching is silenced.

From Barlaam and Ioasaph by John of Damascus, Saint