All 9 Uses of
crusade
in
Slaughterhouse-Five
- SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE OR THE CHILDREN'S CRUSADE A Duty-dance with Death KURT VONNEGUT, JR. The cattle are lowing, The Baby awakes, But the little Lord Jesus No crying He makes.†
Chpt 1 (definition 1)
- I'll call it The Children's Crusade.
Chpt 1 (definition 1) *crusade = a long and determined effort for a cause that is passionately believed to be important
- We became curious about the real Children's Crusade, so O'Hare looked it up in a book he had, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, by Charles Mackay, LL.†
Chpt 1 (definition 1)
- Mackay had a low opinion of all Crusades.†
Chpt 1 (definition 2) *
- The Children's Crusade struck him as only slightly more sordid than the ten Crusades for grown-ups.†
Chpt 1 (definition 1)
- The Children's Crusade struck him as only slightly more sordid than the ten Crusades for grown-ups.†
Chpt 1 (definition 2)
- O'Hare read this handsome passage out loud: History in her solemn page informs us that the Crusaders were but ignorant and savage men, that their motives were those of bigotry unmitigated, and that their pathway was one of blood and rears.†
Chpt 1 (definition 1)
- Mackay told us that the Children's Crusade started in 1213, when two monks got the idea of raising armies of children in Germany and France, and selling them in North Africa as slaves.†
Chpt 1 (definition 1)
- It's the Children's Crusade.†
Chpt 5 (definition 1)
Definitions:
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(1) (crusade as in: a crusade against pollution) a long and determined effort for a cause that is passionately believed to be important
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(2) (Crusades as in: First Crusade to Jerusalem) the more or less continuous military expeditions in the 11th to 13th centuries when Christian powers of Europe invaded Muslims in the Holy Land in the Middle East