Word: saracens
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...de? stayed on in the boudoir with Mme Z? Could you explain the kiss he gave her, in the very middle of the ball?" "Overwhelmingly" gentle in voice, elaborately formal in manner, Proust smiled continually, gazed fondly at society from brilliant black eyes under drooping eyelids and "a Saracen's beak." Extravagant, generous?his tips were fantastic?he dressed like the dandy he was: creamy pink shirtfront, a rose or orchid in his lapel, light-colored gloves with black points. Even in summer, for fear of catching cold, he wore a heavy pelisse. An impressed English visitor to Paris said...
...their last desperate attempt. It succeeded; the Holy City was theirs; they killed for two days. After the Battle of Ascalon secured their position, most of the First Crusaders went home, left Godfrey of Bouillon as Jerusalem's king. Christians held the city for 88 years, till Saracen Saladin captured it in his Holy...
...Vagabond has seen successive onslaughts by cadets, Indians, Quakers and other forces, and here another weekend is at hand and with it he discovers that his favorite haunts have been invaded by an army of purple-clad Crusaders. And so, not feeling up to playing the part of a Saracen even for the protection of his lares and penates, he has fled for the duration of the struggle to parts unknown-unknown, that is, to anyone that would intrude on his retreat...
...Neill joins a raid in which Bethlehem is snatched from its Saracen overlord. Returning in force, the Saracen prevails, but not until O'Neill has, with his bare hands, slain one of their champions. For this feat his life is spared by Kothra, the sheikess of the piece. First as prisoner, then as guest of Kothra and the Sheykh Haroun, her father, young O'Neill is torn between ancestral pride and desert love; also between his inherited Christianity, which the crusaders' irreligion spoils for him, and Islam, which his courteous captor-hosts gently urge...
Seven centuries ago there was a generation of children who, having observed their elders' repeated failure to wrest the Holy Sepulchre from the infidel Saracens by brute force, resorted to the quaint expedient of trudging down across Europe, struggling over the Mediterranean Sea and advancing upon Jerusalem with hands empty of weapons and hearts full of faith. It is not recorded that the Saracen militia were deeply affected by this display, nor that they yielded their stronghold until, some time afterwards, Frederick II ousted them by adroit diplomacy. Nevertheless, the tradition that young people make good auxiliary forces...