Meanings of pacific intentions in English

Several chiefs spoke in turn, expressing the pacific intentions of the Indians.

This determination of the Allies induced the French Government to evince pacific intentions.

Momulla raised his right hand, palm forward, as a sign of his pacific intentions.

I will leave you to repeat to him the assurances of our pacific intentions, answered the Indian.

He was extremely startled by this news, with all that it implied of surrender and of pacific intentions.

Fears were mingled with his pacific intentions, when he hesitated to repel the aggression or to take flight.

What this reply was did not transpire; probably it was not in harmony with the pacific intentions of the marechal.

They had come with pacific intentions; but if war were declared, it would be seen with whom they had to deal.

She had felt that her pacific intentions were clear to all the world; and that England could not, with any self-respect, refuse assistance.

The measure contemplated by the President is a perfectly novel one, a measure of a hostile and unjustifiable character adopted with pacific intentions.

Cortès offered the Indians some presents, assuring them of his pacific intentions, and then disembarked upon the torrid and unhealthy shore of Vera-Cruz.

Pizarro's declaration of his pacific intentions, however, so far removed all the Inca's fears, that he determined to give him a friendly reception.

Nobody had been holding out very much hope about the bona fides or pacific intentions of the Provos for a very long time now.

He therefore made a gesture expressive at the same time of his wish to resume the interrupted discourse, and of his own pacific intentions.

Though filled with pacific intentions, and meaning to rely for safety principally on the calumet, or pipe of peace, they nevertheless went completely armed.

The opportunity, however, was seized by Fox to emphasise his master's pacific intentions by bringing forward the proposal for the marriage of James with Margaret.