How To Use Saracen In A Sentence
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Wet meadows between rock outcrops include grasses, sedges, mosses, pitcher plant Saracenia purpurea, sundew Drosera sp. and purple fringed orchid Habenaria psycodes.
Gros Morne National Park, Canada
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The sword wheeled and fell, and lo! the shield of the Saracen was severed in two.
The Brethren
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Saracens are an interesting counterpoint too.
Times, Sunday Times
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Roland becomes the commander of the rearguard, appointed to the post at the instance of the traitor Ganelon, who is in league with the Saracen king Marsile.
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This building is a fine example of the Indo-Saracenic style of architecture, a British Imperial hybrid.
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Those five chapters were the start of her children's debut Fly By Night, a rumbustiously imagined rollick through the adventures of the black-eyed orphan Mosca Mye and her pugilistic goose Saracen.
Frances Hardinge: a bucketful of whimsy
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Nicephorus and Leo, triumphed over the Saracens, the hours which the emperor owed to his people were consumed in strenuous idleness.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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For eighteen long months had he plied the oars on board of a Saracen galley, while Sir Franz, who was overweak for such toil, served as keeper of slaves on the benches, himself with chains on his feet.
Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works
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Acre, acca, anciently Ptolemais, in Syria, was taken by the Saracens in
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 05 Central and Southern Europe
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The first had been during an attack by the Saracens in the Middle Ages and the second during an earthquake.
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In the wintry weeks that followed he remained in the No3 shirt as the Leicester scrum did its worst to high-flying Saracens at Vicarage Road, then – and particularly wince-worthy this demolition job – to a Wasps pack, complete with Simon Shaw and England's incumbent loosehead, Tim Payne, a Lion no less.
Dan Cole the tighthead Tiger who is too good to ditch
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It has a marvelous glassed-in central cloister, where breakfast is served in summer, and a swimming pool sheltering beneath the Saracen tower opposite.
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One bonde of belief then so coupled and ioyned them: that for a space it made to them no matier whether ye called them all by one name, Saracenes, or Turkes.
The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie
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It should not have been such a nervy finish for Saracens.
Times, Sunday Times
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If the bold scheme could be carried through there would again be a Roman emperor in the West, Latin Christianity would stand strong and unified against schismatic Byzantium and threatening Saracens, and, by the awe and magic of the imperial name, barbarized Europe might reach back across centuries of darkness, and inherit and Christianize the civilization and culture of the ancient world.
Charlemagne, King of the Franks, 28 Jan 814
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Phil Howell produced good tactical kicking and Saracens led 0-29 at the interval.
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Saracens can flex their muscles and, once they have you caught in an arm wrestle, they have you where they want you.
Times, Sunday Times
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For a number of centuries after the decline of the Roman Empire, the coast was menaced by Saracen pirates, and the local population took refuge in the inaccessible mountain hinterland.
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In a straight fight the crusaders usually won; in skirmishes, the Saracens often overcame their more numerous opponents.
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The two men looked through the crenel and saw a herald approaching from the Saracen lines.
The Falcons of Montabard
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Granada, in the heart of their great conquest; and it is a most beautiful church, of a mingled Saracenic plateresque Gothic, as the guide-books remind me, and extravagantly baroque as I myself found it.
Familiar Spanish Travels
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Saracens are an interesting counterpoint too.
Times, Sunday Times
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In a ducal coronet, or, a Saracen's head affrontee, proper, wreathed about the temples, ar. and sable.
Peerage of England, genealogical, biographical, and historical
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The style may be said to have arisen from the orientalization of Roman art, and itself largely contributed to the formation of the Saracenic or
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"
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Saracens themselves, and Italians, and Russians, were attentive to the multitudes of Mongols and Tartars.
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[Chronicon Hierosolymitanum, eodem libro 9.cap. l2.] continueth this historie of these two hundreth saile of ships, and sheweth how by their prowesse chiefly, the multitude of the Sarazens were in short space vanquished and ouerthrowen: The words are these; Ab ipso verò die tertiæ feriæ dum sic in superbia et elatione suæ multitudinis immobiles Saraceni persisterent, et multis armorum terroribus Christianum populum vexarent, sexta feria appropinquante.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 08 Asia, Part I
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'Arabice loquutum esse Aigolando Saracenorum regulo, Turpinus (the famous Archbishop) auctor est; nec id fide indignum.
Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 2
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Saracens would have been down by double digits.
Times, Sunday Times
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All eyes were on the fly-half, and fellow departee Paul Sackey, as Wasps set about maintaining their record of never losing to Saracens at Adams Park, while the visitors knew victory would take them up to second in the table.
Planet Rugby | Rugby Union News
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He bought shirt-pins; wore a ring on his third finger; read poetry; bribed a cheap miniature-painter to perpetrate a faint resemblance to a youthful face, with a curtain over his head, six large books in the background, and an open country in the distance (this he called his portrait); 'went on' altogether in such an uproarious manner, that the three Miss Dounces went off on small pensions, he having made the tenement in Cursitor-street too warm to contain them; and in short, comported and demeaned himself in every respect like an unmitigated old Saracen, as he was.
Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people
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Christian men, all white within, for the Paynims and the Saracens made them white for to fordo the images of saints that were painted on the walls.
The Travels of Sir John Mandeville
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The controversial touch-judge call revved up Saracens, who suddenly injected some urgency into proceedings - before being stung.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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It should not have been such a nervy finish for Saracens.
Times, Sunday Times
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Achon and Ioppe, neere to a towne called Assur, Saladine with a great multitude of his Saracens came fiercely against the kings rereward, but through Gods mercifull grace in the same battell, the kings warriers acquited themselues so well, that the Saladine was put to flight, whom the
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 05 Central and Southern Europe
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Saracens have shown the value of the great intangibles.
Times, Sunday Times
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Saracens can flex their muscles and, once they have you caught in an arm wrestle, they have you where they want you.
Times, Sunday Times
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Saracens are in danger of becoming one of the movers and shakers in English rugby.
Times, Sunday Times
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They ventured seawards only after 1000, when the Saracen threat had passed.
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Saracens can flex their muscles and, once they have you caught in an arm wrestle, they have you where they want you.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Saracens hooker was substituted after a blow to the head and reacted to abuse from behind the dugout with the gesture.
The Sun
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Saracens; fourthly and fifthly, the Ottoman Turks and Venetians; sixthly, the Latin princes of Constantinople -- not to speak seventhly and eighthly of Albanian or Egyptian Ali Pashas, or ninthly, of Joseph Humes and Greek loans, is now, viz., in March, 1844, alive and kicking.
The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2
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But as Saracens consistently conceded penalties, Humphreys accepted the points on offer.
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D. 711] the people of the Saracens, crossing over from Africa at a place which is called Ceuta, invaded all Spain.
A Source Book for Ancient Church History
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Ironically it was Saracens 'Brendan Venter who last week highlighted the current disparity in refereeing interpretations across the Channel and the game today fully underlined his point.
Leicester turn air blue against Saracens in rage at referee exchange
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Tony thought Coluzzi was like the false Saracen, a hollow soldier waiting to be knocked down.
THE VENDETTA DEFENCE
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Naturally insusceptible, however, of fear, he crossed himself, and stoutly demanded of the Saracen an account of the pedigree which he had boasted.
The Talisman
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What fine old names they have, great with the blended dignities of literary and rural lore; archangel, tormentil, rosa solis or sun-dew, horehound, Saracen's wound-wort, melilot or king's clover, pellitory of Spain!
Apologia Diffidentis
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Et pòst inuenimus quandam bonam villam quæ dicitur Equius, in qua erant Saraceni loquentes Persicum: longissimè tamen erant à Perside.
The iournal of frier William de Rubruquis a French man of the order of the minorite friers, vnto the East parts of the worlde. An. Dom. 1253.
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Val Pellice produces a speciality cheese, the origins of which stem from the early Middle Ages when occasional Saracenic groups ventured into the Alps.
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Enter them and you pass through a driveway, flanked by sheds and outhouses, to a huge building in Indo-Saracenic style.
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Saracens haven't fared badly without them.
Times, Sunday Times
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His career has partly stalled amid a few minor indiscretions and controversy surrounding his move to Saracens from Northampton.
Times, Sunday Times
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He elbowed the Saracens number 8, Barry Crawley, who in turn, threw a punch which floored the Gloucester man.
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Of the wars against the Saracens and misbelieving men; of the discomfiture of the Romans when they came to take truage of King Arthur; of the strife with the eleven kings and the battle that was ended but never flnished; of the Questing Beast and how King Pellinore and then Sir Palamides followed it; of Balin that gave the dolourous stroke unto King Pellam; of Sir Tor that sought the lady's brachet and by the way overcame two knights and smote off the head of the outrageous caitiff Abelleus, -- of these and many like matters of pith and moment, full of blood and honour, told Sir Lancelot, and the people bad marvel of his words.
The Blue Flower
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“We ARE friends,” repeated the knight; and there was a pause, during which the fiery Saracen paced the tent, like the lion, who, after violent irritation, is said to take that method of cooling the distemperature of his blood, ere he stretches himself to repose in his den.
The Talisman
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[Chronicon Hierosolymitanum, eodem libro 9.cap. l2.] continueth this historie of these two hundreth saile of ships, and sheweth how by their prowesse chiefly, the multitude of the Sarazens were in short space vanquished and ouerthrowen: The words are these; Ab ipso ver� die terti� feri� dum sic in superbia et elatione su� multitudinis immobiles Saraceni persisterent, et multis armorum terroribus Christianum populum vexarent, sexta feria appropinquante.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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The memory of Coeur de Lion, of the lion-hearted prince, was long dear and glorious to his English subjects; and, at the distance of sixty years, it was celebrated in proverbial sayings by the grandsons of the Turks and Saracens, against whom he had fought: his tremendous name was employed by the Syrian mothers to silence their infants; and if a horse suddenly started from the way, his rider was wont to exclaim, “Dost thou think King Richard is in that bush?”
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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The result was that in the end the Valiant Soldier, of the Christian army, was distinguished by no peculiarity of accoutrement from the Turkish Knight; and what was worse, on a casual view Saint George himself might be mistaken for his deadly enemy, the Saracen.
The Return of the Native
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A perfect replica of a Saracen knight perhaps: but no threat to the soldiers of a modern army...
KARA KUSH
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The net result was a lack of the spectacular for which he has become renowned in Saracens colours.
Times, Sunday Times
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Saracens have announced the signing of England wing Chris Ashton on what they describe as a "long-term contract".
Evening Standard - Home
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The net result was a lack of the spectacular for which he has become renowned in Saracens colours.
Times, Sunday Times
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Roman general, named Caio Mario, against two large armies of Saracens with ultramoritane names (the Teutones probably and Cimbri) in gratitude to
Anne of Geierstein
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Saracens are in danger of becoming one of the movers and shakers in English rugby.
Times, Sunday Times
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An armoured Saracen rumbled into the road, and from that moment she was gripped in panic and no longer knew herself to be dreaming.
DEATH OF AN UNKNOWN MAN
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Those five chapters were the start of her children's debut Fly By Night, a rumbustiously imagined rollick through the adventures of the black-eyed orphan Mosca Mye and her pugilistic goose Saracen.
Frances Hardinge: a bucketful of whimsy
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Much was lost in the 8th and 9th centuries as both the Saracens and the Byzantines took advantage of imperial and papal weakness.
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Drums were not used by the Roman army but European soldiers were reintroduced to them in the Crusades, when the presence of kettledrums and other percussion instruments was noted in the Saracen battle line.
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Saladin, -- whose valour was such that not only from a man of little account it made him Soldan of Babylon, but gained him many victories over kings Saracen and Christian, -- having in divers wars and in the exercise of his extraordinary munificences expended his whole treasure and having an urgent occasion for a good sum of money nor seeing whence he might avail to have it as promptly as it behoved him, called to mind a rich Jew, by name Melchizedek, who lent at usance in
The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio
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Saracens, with a week off from Merit Table games, arranged a pool fixture with Yarnbury firsts and produced a workmanlike performance in difficult conditions to run out comfortable winners.
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Saracens are in danger of becoming one of the movers and shakers in English rugby.
Times, Sunday Times
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Azure a lion rampant or, with a crescent for difference, impaling argent a cross engrailed flory sable between four Cornish choughs proper -- Crest, on a wreath of the colours a Saracen's head full-faced, couped at the shoulders proper, wreathed round the temples and tied or and azure.
Notes and Queries, Number 21, March 23, 1850
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Saracens are downed already, probably temporarily because they have great players to reintegrate.
Times, Sunday Times
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The medieval lack of historic sense gives to all the plays the setting of the authors 'own times; Roman officers appear as feudal knights; and all the heathens (including the Jews) are Saracens, worshippers of' Mahound 'and' Termagaunt '; while the good characters, however long they may really have lived before the Christian era, swear stoutly by St. John and St. Paul and the other medieval Christian divinities.
A History of English Literature
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Saracens are downed already, probably temporarily because they have great players to reintegrate.
Times, Sunday Times
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About the time that Conrad marched into Italy, the Greek emperor Michael Paphla - gon, to fecure the efteem of his fickle fubje&s, refolved to recover Sicily from the Saracens; and, for that purpofe, fent the catapan Michael Maniacus with an army into that AD. 104.0. ifland.
The modern part of an universal history from the earliest accounts to the present time;
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Akbar recalls the protection afforded religious minorities by medieval Muslim emirs and then details the savagery visited on ‘Saracens’ and heretics in Christian states of the Middle Ages.
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Azure a lion rampant or, with a crescent for difference, impaling argent a cross engrailed flory sable between four Cornish choughs proper -- Crest, on a wreath of the colours a Saracen's head full-faced, couped at the shoulders proper, wreathed round the temples and tied or and azure.
Notes and Queries, Number 21, March 23, 1850
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In a straight fight the crusaders usually won; in skirmishes, the Saracens often overcame their more numerous opponents.
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In Saracenic armies, bands composed of reeds and pipes of various sorts played during combat to encourage their own troops and to show that the line remained unbroken.
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Iterum Kadi et alij Saraceni clamabant, Et tu quid iterum de Machometo dicis?
The Journal of Friar Odoric
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Evening Standard - Home
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[Chronicon Hierosolymitanum, eodem libro 9.cap. l2.] continueth this historie of these two hundreth saile of ships, and sheweth how by their prowesse chiefly, the multitude of the Sarazens were in short space vanquished and ouerthrowen: The words are these; Ab ipso ver� die terti� feri� dum sic in superbia et elatione su� multitudinis immobiles Saraceni persisterent, et multis armorum terroribus Christianum populum vexarent, sexta feria appropinquante.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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Saracens are downed already, probably temporarily because they have great players to reintegrate.
Times, Sunday Times
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Saracen ambassadors bring Charlemagne a white elephant complete with exotic trappings.
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Saracens can flex their muscles and, once they have you caught in an arm wrestle, they have you where they want you.
Times, Sunday Times
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So I'll concede defeat and divert my attention to more substantial, savoury efforts, the noble galette, made with buckwheat flour - or, to use their full title, galettes au sarrasin, so-named by the crusaders who brought buckwheat back from their encounters with the Saracens.
The Guardian World News
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Saracen ambassadors bring Charlemagne a white elephant complete with exotic trappings.
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Christe our king, writeth that the Turkes, and Saracenes by an auncient opinion receiued from Machomet: do laughe Christian menne to skorne, that seke thether with so greate reuerence.
The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie
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In a straight fight the crusaders usually won; in skirmishes, the Saracens often overcame their more numerous opponents.
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Saracenos: et cum non possunt amplius dare aurum vel argentum, ducunt eos et paruulos eorum tanquam greges ad solitudinem vt custodiant animalia eorum.
The iournal of frier William de Rubruquis a French man of the order of the minorite friers, vnto the East parts of the worlde. An. Dom. 1253.
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Reaching Blois and utterly rejecting his mother's attempts to excuse herself and console him, he drags out a miserable time in continual penance and self-neglect, till at last, availing himself of (and rather shabbily if piously tricking) a Saracen page, [71] he succeeds in getting off incognito to the vague "Ardennes," where his sadly ended adventure had begun.
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800
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Earlier this season Sale blew a golden opportunity to beat Saracens at Vicarage Road and have a score to settle for a previous string of heavy defeats by the Watford-based outfit.
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Toulon were awarded one more penalty close to the Saracens line.
Times, Sunday Times
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Saracens returned to second team championship fixtures after a four week gap with a trip to Park Lane hoping to gain revenge for a narrow defeat at Cross Green earlier in the season.
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Set in twelfth century Sicily think saracens, crusades, holy wars, internecine strife, monasteries usually enough there to latch onto but I have truly floundered with this one.
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Let a Christian knight, crippled in war with the Saracens, present himself on the drawbridge, he is guerdoned with
Anne of Geierstein
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Midterm Roundup
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Take a Saracen, young and fat; In haste let the thief be slain, Opened, and his skin off flayn; And sodden full hastily, With powder and with spicery, And with saffron of good colour.
The Talisman
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JL URPIN, Archbishop of Rhehns, the friend and Secretary of Charles the Great, excellently skilled * ip sacred and profane literature, of a genius equally adapted to prose and verse; the advocate of the poor, beloved of God in his life and conversation, who often hand to hand fought the Saracens by the Emperor's side: he relates the acts of Charles the Great in one book of Epistles, and flourished, under Charles and his Son Lewis, to the year of our Lord eight hundred and thirty. tubpin's bistort or JOHN TURPIN'S HISTORY OP Charles the Great and Orlando.
History of Charles the Great and Orlando,
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Et p騭t inuenimus quandam bonam villam qu� dicitur Equius, in qua erant Saraceni loquentes Persicum: longissim� tamen erant � Perside.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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After having been fearfully annoyed, however, by a crowd of half-armed Saracens, Joinville and his friends made a charge.
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Saracens like to kick and chase, regaining ball and broken-field possibilities.
Times, Sunday Times
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Vickery, who has missed his club's past two matches after ricking his back during the warm-up before the Powergen Cup quarter-final against Saracens, said: ‘I am in pieces at the moment and the injury is a worry.’
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Saracens haven't fared badly without them.
Times, Sunday Times
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If the so-called "hard yards" win rugby matches, inches can also lose them and Saracens are now a country mile from progressing to the quarter-finals.
Derick Hougaard injury adds to Saracens' sense of loss against Leinster
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The lonely four include the weaker of the two Italian sides, Aironi – the other one, Benetton Treviso, took Leicester to the wire – but you wouldn't put it past the other three – Saracens, Racing Métro and the Dragons (admittedly the least likely) – to break their ducks this weekend, when the action will again be tasty from the start.
Cardiff sense the chance to give Castres the Heineken Cup blues
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a colony of Saracens whom his father had planted in Apulia; and this odious succor will explain the defiance of the Catholic hero, who rejected all terms of accommodation.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire