She was a tall maid, very fair to look upon, and the blue tunic which she wore over her russet gown was cunningly embroidered. Embroidered too with gold was the hood which confined her plaited yellow hair. "You find a defenceless house and a woman to conquer," she railed. "Long may it need no other warder," said Jehan, dismounting and looking at her across the water. "The fortune of war has given me a home, mistress. I would dwell in amity with my neighbours."
"Amity!" she cried in scorn. "You will get none from me. My brother Aelward will do the parleying."
"So be it," he said.英文原著 · 《The Path of the King》
He knew that Bud was talking largely for his benefit, and he knew that here was the psychological time for breaking the spell of silence between them. Yet he let the minutes slip past and would not yield. The quarrel had been of Bud's making in the first place. Let Bud do the yielding, make the first step toward amity.英文原著 · 《Cabin Fever》
Ambassadors are the representatives of nations in a state of amity with the Union, and whatever concerns these personages concerns in some degree the whole Union. When an ambassador is a party in a suit, that suit affects the welfare of the nation, and a Federal tribunal is naturally called upon to decide it.英文原著 · 《Democracy In America-1》
The Mandans and Rickarees were ancient enemies, but, following the peaceful councils of the white men, the chiefs professed amity and smoked together the pipe of peace. A son of the Mandan chief was observed to have lost both of his little fingers, and when the strangers asked how this happened, they were told that the fingers had been cut off (according to the Mandan custom) to show the grief of the young man at the loss of some of his relations.英文原著 · 《First Across the Continent》
"All this is very well, M. d'Evora," I said. "I quite agree with you that the times are changed, that amity is not the same thing as war, and that a grain of sand in the eye is unpleasant," for he had said all of these things. "But I fail, being a plain man and no diplomatist, to see what you want me to do."英文原著 · 《From the Memoirs of a Minister of France》