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Word: pikemen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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BELLARION - Rafael Sabatini - Houghton Mifflin ($2.50). Mr. Sabatini's new hero is but a few hours out of the convent where he has grown from a nursling to huge-thewed manhood, when he finds himself racing through the footways of Casale with angry pikemen after him. He pauses by a studded door like the Sire de Maletroit's door in Stevenson and is vastly relieved to find it unlocked. Within is a tawny-headed damsel who, after she has concealed the handsome fugitive, quite alters his plan to study Greek at the University of Pavia. No lady...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Books | 8/30/1926 | See Source »

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