Both Uses of
crusade
in
For Whom the Bell Tolls
- And when I get my job back at the university she can be an instructor's wife and when undergraduates who take Spanish IV come in to smoke pipes in the evening and have those so valuable informal discussions about Quevedo, Lope de Vega, Galdos and the other always admirable dead, Maria can tell them about how some of the blue-shirted crusaders for the true faith sat on her head while others twisted her arms and pulled her skirts up and stuffed them in her mouth.†
Chpt 13
- At either of those places you felt that you were taking part in a crusade.†
Chpt 18 *
Definition:
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(crusade as in: a crusade against pollution) a long and determined effort for a cause that is passionately believed to be important