Wiktionary
n. (olive branch English)
Usage examples of "olive branches".
The mass of children, running in front and waving their palm leaves and olive branches in the air, knocked on the doors and shouted, “.
Gilded eagles topped the staffs, not the double-headed version of the Hittites, but sculpted as if alive with their wings thrust behind them and their claws clutching arrows and olive branches.
Dressed in a simple gray robe, like that of a provincial priest, he came ducking the olive branches and humming a curious tune.
The company was soon on them, and they huddled beneath the olive branches and watched the long double rank of soldiers gallop past.
Seizing the Source, Rand made a gateway between the posts, four paces by four, and ran through as he tied off the weave, filled with saidin and the Asha'man on his heels, into a great open square surrounded by huge white columns, each topped with a marble wreath of olive branches.
The first idea was that, while they had not come waving olive branches and handing out free introductory gifts, the newcomers had evinced absolutely no signs of aggressive or hostile behavior.
After a long impatience, the senate, the clergy, and the people, went forth to meet their hero, with tears and acclamations, with olive branches and innumerable lamps.
Reaching the carport, Jilly peered back toward the Expedition, where the streetlamps, filtered through olive branches, revealed Shepherd in silhouette, in the backseat where he had been told to stay.
The night would never desert me, and it was faithful in every open door with its intruding grass, and the veined olive branches rising to catch the light of the moon.
Taking part were not only priests and magistrates but also girls carrying baskets, old men bearing olive branches and young men on horseback.