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Word: crossbowman (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...passive resistance, a Mahatma-like figure who led his Saxon beggar-followers with the sign of the Cross. At length he so maddened the King that four Norman nobles took the royal wrath as a pretext for slaughtering this enemy of their oligarchy. The narrator is one John, the Crossbowman, Swabian body-servant of the King...

Author: By R. W. P., | Title: BOOKENDS | 6/11/1930 | See Source »

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