Though the central government and UNITA are still at swords' points, at least their country is no longer a testing ground for foreign armies; the peace may be uneasy but it is far better than what preceded it. (Google)
Indeed, sometimes the reciprocity of silence is far more real than that of conversation, for people can be at swords' points with one another under cover of talk, but silence, to be alive and peaceful, must always be between friends, or at least between acquaintances who do not antagonize one another. (Google)
While in other contexts we might have been at swords' points, here we were comrades-in-arms. (Google)