1914 , Thomas Allibone Janvier , At the Casa Napoleon , As she looked at this bunch of too-full-blown roses, and realized the message that it was intended delicately to convey, the dove-like and olive-branching sentiments departed from her breast—and in their place came sentiments compounded of daggers and bow-strings and very poisonous bowls!
1989 , Albert Norman , The Falkland Islands, Their Kinship Isles, the Antarctic Hemisphere, & the Freedom of the 2 Great Oceans , That was intricate reporting plus reasoning plus olive-branching and remonstrating.
2007 , William Jelani Cobb , The Devil and Dave Chappelle: And Other Essays , The frantic olive-branching of America while consistently berating black men has worn me down.
2016 , Jeff Scot Philips , Big Fat Food Fraud: Confessions of a Health-Food Hustler, “Let me help you out,†I olive-branched him, “I do know what you pulled me for; I crossed the double yellow line.
