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The Knights of Malta, with their attitude of truceless war against the infidel, were thus becoming more and more of an anachronism as time went on.

From Knights of Malta, 1523-1798 by Cohen, R.

He wages a truceless war with the evil powers of darkness, and guards his faithful soldiers against the craft of the enemy.

From Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius by Dill, Samuel

He puts down tribal war, he wages truceless combat against epidemic disease, and he so improves communications that augmented and better distributed food-supplies minimize the blight of famine.

From The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy by Stoddard, Lothrop

Behind the premises in Mearns Street lay a tract of slums, full of mischievous boys, with whom his staff waged truceless war.

From Huntingtower by Buchan, 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)