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  • That night, lying in bed, Roy felt a stronger connection to Mullet Fingers, and a better understanding of the boy's private crusade against the pancake house.   (source)
    crusade = effort for a cause thought important
  • I'll call it The Children's Crusade.   (source)
    crusade = a long and determined effort for a cause that is passionately believed to be important
  • In fact, my white fans were going to cheer for me like I was some kind of crusading warrior: Jeez, I felt like one of those Indian scouts who led the U.S. Cavalry against other Indians.†   (source)
  • Today he was fighting their battle, he was fighting the same enemy they had fought for ages, as far back as the eleventh century …. when the enemy's crusading armies had first pillaged his land, raping and killing his people, declaring them unclean, defiling their temples and gods.†   (source)
  • His father was always in character; Adam found it hard to believe he had been a crusading newspaperman.†   (source)
  • The six-fingered man was probably crusading in Asia.†   (source)
  • It would appear that Shultz's investigation was rather one-sided, since it consisted of little more than an interview with Smith and Hickock, from which the lawyer emerged with crusading phrases for the press: "The question is this-do poor, plainly guilty defendants have a right to a complete defense?†   (source)
  • Dear Aunt Em is crusading still.†   (source)
  • He was a militant idealist who crusaded against racial bigotry by growing faint in its presence.†   (source)
  • I told myself I belonged on that wall, after all, with the pipe-smoking foreign correspondents and elegant writers and crusading reporters.†   (source)
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  • Martin Luther King Jr. continued his civil rights crusading and became one of the world's most admired men.†   (source)
  • After all his crusading against their evil hybrid spawn?†   (source)
  • Maybe it would help the boy understand Roy's reluctance to participate, even though he sympathized with the owl crusade.   (source)
    crusade = effort for a cause thought important
  • "Well, not exactly crusading—investigative reporting is mostly monotonous work, digging through thousands of words for the one word that doesn't ring true.†   (source)
  • The Nurse of the Forest Sauvage sent a cough mixture, thirty dozen handkerchiefs all marked, and a pair of combinations with a double chest The sergeant sent him his crusading medals, to be preserved by the nation.†   (source)
  • He composed dozens of personal memoirs, into which quietly, humorously, with fine-tempered English restraint, he poured the full measure of his pure crusading heart.†   (source)
  • But the crusading passion of it made him so tobacco-hungry that he immediately recovered the key, walked with forbidding dignity to the file, took out a cigar and a match—"but only one match; if ole cigar goes out, it'll by golly have to stay out!"†   (source)
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  • One of the goals of the West in The First Crusade was to recapture Jerusalem after 461 years of Muslim rule.
    Crusade = the first military expeditions in the 11th to 13th centuries when Christian powers of Europe invaded Muslims in the Holy Land in the Middle East
  • As though they are noblemen in grandstands viewing fortress warfare in the years of the Crusaders.   (source)
    crusaders = European Christian fighters in one of the military expeditions in the 11th to 13th centuries invading the Holy Land in the Middle East
  • Usually, two mighty armies—one Muslim, the other Crusader, the army of Rome—were arrayed for battle.   (source)
    crusader = European Christian fighters of invasions of the Middle East in the 11th to 13th centuries
  • "Imbuing violence with holy meaning," wrote the historian Iris Chang, "the Japanese imperial army made violence a cultural imperative every bit as powerful as that which propelled Europeans during the Crusades and the Spanish Inquisition."†   (source)
  • A sculpture fashioned by knights of the Crusades from gold and jewels as tribute to a king, it is an emblem of the church and the monarchies—those rapacious institutions that have served as the foundation for all of Europe's art and ideas.†   (source)
  • That's part of what the Crusades were about.†   (source)
  • In the first row, he recognized Mother Slaughter and Josiah Worthington, and the old earl who had been wounded in the Crusades and came home to die, and Doctor Trefusis, all of them looking solemn and important.†   (source)
  • And in the Bible it says Thou shalt not kill but there were the Crusades and two world wars and the Gulf War and there were Christians killing people in all of them.†   (source)
  • The Crusades.†   (source)
  • Combating mitigation has become one of the great crusades in commercial aviation in the past fifteen years.†   (source)
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  • The first record of this unusual arrangement was when Virgil Butler had been contracted as servant, bodyguard and cook to Lord Hugo de Pole for one of the first great Norman crusades.†   (source)
  • I knew about the Crusades, and I knew that there had been fighting and atrocities forever.†   (source)
  • Newspapers launched crusades against pestilent alleys and excess smoke and identified the worst offenders in print—among them Burnham's newly opened Masonic Temple, which the Chicago Tribune likened to Mount Vesuvius.†   (source)
  • I was up in my room at college, studying about Peter the Hermit and Walter the Penniless for my history exam on the crusades the coming Monday, when the hall phone rang.†   (source)
  • Why, we fought in the crusades with Richard the Lion Heart, crossed the Atlantic with Columbus, blazed trails with the pioneers, and today many members of the family hold prominent government positions throughout the world.†   (source)
  • Compare the four hundred lives that a few swimming pool precautions might save to the number of lives saved by far noisier crusades: child-resistant packaging (an estimated fifty lives a year), flame-retardant pajamas (ten lives), keeping children away from airbags in cars (fewer than five young children a year have been killed by airbags since their introduction), and safety drawstrings on children's clothing (two lives).†   (source)
  • He wore the scarlet robes that a knight who might have served during the Crusades, or possibly the Inquisition, would have worn.†   (source)
  • Hema was the songbird, but when provoked her voice was as sharp as Saladin's scimitar, which, according to my Richard the Lion Hearted and the Crusades, could divide a silk scarf allowed to float down onto the blade's edge.†   (source)
  • Mackay had a low opinion of all Crusades.†   (source)
  • But now, listening to Leon sounding as if the school was embarking on the Crusades, for crying out loud, Archie was doubtful.†   (source)
  • And yet-he thought —through all the generations of political extortion, it was not the looting bureaucrats who had taken the blame, but the chained industrialists, not the men who peddled legal favors, but the men who were forced to buy them; and through all those generations of crusades against corruption, the remedy had always been, not the liberating of the victims, but the granting of wider powers for extortion to the extortionists.†   (source)
  • Cold Sassy is the kind of town where schoolteachers spend two months every fall drilling on Greek and Roman gods, the kings and queens of England, the Crusades, the Spanish Inquisition, Marco Polo, Magellan, Columbus, the first Thanksgiving, Oglethorpe settling Georgia, and how happy the slaves were before the War.†   (source)
  • Men of crusades!†   (source)
  • The Crusades weren't all about one culture trying to inflict their religious views on another.†   (source)
  • The Crusades must have been a little like this.†   (source)
  • When it was first turning out cruisers and destroyers the Crusades were in full swing.†   (source)
  • I caught one of those master's thesis assignments he chucked around so casually; I had suggested that the Crusades were different from most wars.†   (source)
  • The real Saladin had united the Muslim world under the Ayyubid dynasty and recaptured Jerusalem from the Crusaders.   (source)
  • The Christian soldiers, who would one day be known as Crusaders, breached the city's defenses on the night of July 13, 1099, and slaughtered its inhabitants, including three thousand men, women, and children who had taken shelter inside the great al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount.   (source)
  • After humiliating the thirst-crazed Crusader force at the Battle of Hattin near Tiberias—Saladin personally sliced off the arm of Raynald of Chatillon—the Muslims reclaimed Jerusalem after a negotiated surrender.   (source)
  • Not the son of a Kurdish soldier of fortune who united the Arab world and reclaimed Jerusalem from the Crusaders, but the Saladin who in the span of a few days had shed infidel and apostate blood in Paris and Amsterdam.   (source)
  • You proved that long ago …. the inquisition, the torture of the Knights Templar, the Crusades.†   (source)
  • The Children's Crusade struck him as only slightly more sordid than the ten Crusades for grown-ups.†   (source)
  • From the Crusades, to the Inquisition, to American politics—the name Jesus had been hijacked as an ally in all kinds of power struggles.†   (source)
  • "Everything in this vault," Langdon said, feeling more confident now, "centuries of material, has to do with the Crusades.†   (source)
  • "Your final hour," he said aloud, picturing the thousands of Muslims slaughtered during the Crusades.†   (source)
  • I think it dates back to the Crusades.†   (source)
  • Yes, even the Crusades, though you have to dig into trade routes and birth rate and several other things to prove it.†   (source)
  • The Banner led great, brave crusades—on issues that had no opposition.†   (source)
  • There is no glory in war, and no beauty in crusades of men.†   (source)
  • Thus, towards the end of the eighteenth century a change came about which, if I were rewriting history, I should describe more fully and think of greater importance than the Crusades or the Wars of the Roses.†   (source)
  • She had swam away, her serpentine head undulating on the surface like a swimming grass-snake, and the King had hailed a passing ship which looked as if it were off to the Crusades.†   (source)
  • Throughout history, says Tolstoy, there has been an endless series of these "epidemic suggestions"–for example, the Crusades, the search for the Philosopher's Stone, the craze for tulip growing which once swept over Holland, and so on and so forth.†   (source)
  • This formula, indeed, of the shining hero going against the dragon has been the great device of self-justification for all crusades.†   (source)
  • Dressed all in white, and clutching firmly in their small hands the tiny stems of American flags, the pigmies, monstrous as only children can be when they become the witless mouths of slogans and crusades, charged hungrily, uttering their shrill cries, upon their Gulliver.†   (source)
  • He said the Templars brought the Angelus back from the Crusades, and it is really an adaptation of a Moslem custom.†   (source)
  • Provided that meetings, pamphlets, policies, movements, causes, and crusades, matter more to him than prayers and sacraments and charity, he is ours--and the more "religious" (on those terms) the more securely ours.†   (source)
  • Indeed his whole theory of "crazes" or "epidemic suggestions", in which he lumps together such things as the Crusades and the Dutch passion of tulip growing, shows a willingness to regard many human activities as mere ant-like rushings to and fro, inexplicable and uninteresting.†   (source)
  • The Crusades ….†   (source)
  • Instead of a powder puff, there was a chamois leather bag with powdered chalk in it, scented with attar of roses from the crusades.†   (source)
  • Think of my great crusades about street-car companies, red-light districts and home-grown vegetables.†   (source)
  • Where once the horrible lepers—they called them Measles—had been accustomed to ramble through the woods in white cowls, ringing their doleful clappers if they wanted to give warning, or just pouncing on you without ringing them if they did not, now there were proper hospitals, governed by religious orders of knighthood, to look after those who had come back sick with leprosy from the Crusades.†   (source)
  • He stopped every attempt to draw Mrs. Gail Wynand into public life—to head committees, sponsor charity drives, endorse crusades.†   (source)
  • Uncle Dap, who looked after the Armoury, had been unpacking one of fee barrels to make an inventory of its contents—and had gone away in despair on discovering ten pounds of dates and five loaves of sugar in it It must have been some sort of honey sugar, unless it was loaf sugar brought back from the Crusades.†   (source)
  • It returns from the crusades with the pointed arch, like the nations with liberty.†   (source)
  • And so, might I courteously remind you that, although the Crusades did stimulate international commerce, they did anything but bring about international reconciliation.†   (source)
  • The themes were the same that had been illuminated upon similar occasions by their mothers before them, their grandmothers, and doubtless all their ancestors in the female line clear back to the Crusades.†   (source)
  • At Fourways men had stood and talked of Napoleon, the loss of America, the execution of King Charles, the burning of the Martyrs, the Crusades, the Norman Conquest, possibly of the arrival of Caesar.†   (source)
  • They were traitors to the people of course, all of them, men, women, and children, who happened to be descendants of the great men who since the Crusades had made the glory of France: her old NOBLESSE.†   (source)
  • And he, still following up the idea of Forcheville's noble birth, which had obsessed him all through dinner, began again with: "I am treating a Baroness just now, Baroness Putbus; weren't there some Putbuses in the Crusades?†   (source)
  • Any questioning of his fluent figures about tuberculosis, any hint that the cause of decline in the disease may have been natural growth of immunity and not the crusades against spitting and stale air, Pickerbaugh regarded as a criticism of his honesty in making such crusades.†   (source)
  • "War," Settembrini exclaimed, "even war, my dear sir, has on occasion been forced to serve progress—as you yourself must grant me, if you will recall certain events from your own favorite epoch, by which I mean the Crusades.†   (source)
  • His own character being light, profligate, and perfidious, John easily attached to his person and faction, not only all who had reason to dread the resentment of Richard for criminal proceedings during his absence, but also the numerous class of "lawless resolutes," whom the crusades had turned back on their country, accomplished in the vices of the East, impoverished in substance, and hardened in character, and who placed their hopes of harvest in civil commotion.†   (source)
  • One of your ancestors had joined the Crusades, and supposing it to be only that of St. Louis, that makes you mount to the thirteenth century, which is tolerably ancient.†   (source)
  • The Crusades and the wars of the English decimated the nobles and divided their possessions; the erection of communities introduced an element of democratic liberty into the bosom of feudal monarchy; the invention of fire-arms equalized the villein and the noble on the field of battle; printing opened the same resources to the minds of all classes; the post was organized so as to bring the same information to the door of the poor man's cottage and to the gate of the palace; and…†   (source)
  • It has accomplished wonders far surpassing Egyptian pyramids, Roman aqueducts, and Gothic cathedrals; it has conducted expeditions that put in the shade all former Exoduses of nations and crusades.†   (source)
  • …had returned, and of ghosts, the "former" subjects of amazement at everything, brave and noble gentlemen who smiled at being in France but wept also, delighted to behold their country once more, in despair at not finding their monarchy; the nobility of the Crusades treating the nobility of the Empire, that is to say, the nobility of the sword, with scorn; historic races who had lost the sense of history; the sons of the companions of Charlemagne disdaining the companions of Napoleon.†   (source)
  • Are we still living in the monstrous times of the Middle Ages, when vagabonds were permitted to display in our public places leprosy and scrofulas they had brought back from the Crusades?†   (source)
  • Is the movement of the peoples at the time of the Crusades explained by the life and activity of the Godfreys and the Louis-es and their ladies?†   (source)
  • But the Crusades arrive.†   (source)
  • Madame Homais was very fond of these small, heavy turban-shaped loaves, that are eaten in Lent with salt butter; a last vestige of Gothic food that goes back, perhaps, to the time of the Crusades, and with which the robust Normans gorged themselves of yore, fancying they saw on the table, in the light of the yellow torches, between tankards of hippocras and huge boars' heads, the heads of Saracens to be devoured.†   (source)
  • He had within his reach his pistols and carbine, and Ali, standing near him, held one of the small Arabian hatchets, whose form has not varied since the Crusades.†   (source)
  • But in the Crusades we already see an event occupying its definite place in history and without which we cannot imagine the modern history of Europe, though to the chroniclers of the Crusades that event appeared as merely due to the will of certain people.†   (source)
  • Impossible to place our Cathedral in that other family of lofty, aerial churches, rich in painted windows and sculpture; pointed in form, bold in attitude; communal and bourgeois as political symbols; free, capricious, lawless, as a work of art; second transformation of architecture, no longer hieroglyphic, immovable and sacerdotal, but artistic, progressive, and popular, which begins at the return from the crusades, and ends with Louis IX.†   (source)
  • This little cell had been celebrated in Paris for nearly three centuries, ever since Madame Rolande de la Tour-Roland, in mourning for her father who died in the Crusades, had caused it to be hollowed out in the wall of her own house, in order to immure herself there forever, keeping of all her palace only this lodging whose door was walled up, and whose window stood open, winter and summer, giving all the rest to the poor and to God.†   (source)
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  • The Church may no longer employ crusaders to slaughter non-believers, but their influence is no less persuasive.†   (source)
  • "I got that bruise in Birmingham after the Children's Crusade."†   (source)
  • "What I don't understand is—why did she do this, this Children's Crusade?†   (source)
  • I remember when I was a child, Billy Sunday brought his holy-revival crusade to town.†   (source)
  • It was a story of the Children's Crusade.†   (source)
  • Images from old history flip through his head, sidebars from Blood and Roses: Ghenghis Khan's skull pile, the heaps of shoes and eyeglasses from Dachau, the burning corpse-filled churches in Rwanda, the sack of Jerusalem by the Crusaders.†   (source)
  • In the three months following Rogers's story, Jet, Ebony, Smithsonian, and various newspapers published articles about Henrietta, "one of the pivotal figures in the crusade against cancer."†   (source)
  • "It was the Children's Crusade down there.†   (source)
  • This year she was more determined than ever to reach the top and thereby complete her much publicized crusade to climb the Seven Summits.†   (source)
  • Jack had seen Denker the teacher as not much different from the strutting South American little Caesars in their banana kingdoms, standing dissidents up against the wall of the handiest squash or handball court, a super-zealot in a comparatively small puddle, a man whose every whim becomes a crusade.†   (source)
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  • Sign-carrying, card-dispensing, tripping, kicking crusaders revved up their efforts to reduce our number to zero.†   (source)
  • This is your crusade.†   (source)
  • It has crusader crosses on it, too.†   (source)
  • The Chicago Tribune made fare reductions a crusade and openly attacked the railroads.†   (source)
  • That's his crusade, you know.†   (source)
  • Of the subsequent Communist Party siege of Paradise Pickles & Preserves, led by Ayemenem's own Crusader for Justice and Spokesman of the Oppressed.†   (source)
  • It was the Crusaders' motto, and they went out to battle and were slaughtered, just like my father.†   (source)
  • A very quiet, circumspect crusade where each side was sure they were protecting the immortal soul of the Archives.†   (source)
  • Why don't you out there—let's start a crusade—I want you all—if you feel anything about all this—to write to the teacher.†   (source)
  • Other times he wears a black trash bag safety-pinned over his back and around his neck, the caped, clean-streets crusader of downtown Los Angeles.†   (source)
  • Or reminding him that it won't be so easy to persuade Dauntless and Candor to join the factionless in their crusade against the faction system.†   (source)
  • JIHAD: a religious crusade; fanatical crusade.†   (source)
  • And I haven't even mentioned friars, crusaders, or witches.†   (source)
  • The Andrews case became the basis for a legal and medical crusade.†   (source)
  • Robin Fedden, Crusader Castles†   (source)
  • It could be that Billy Graham has a crusade going on that weekend — that's a religious response.†   (source)
  • Griffith presented the Klan as crusaders for white civilization itself, and as one of the noblest forces in American history.†   (source)
  • Under a bright noonday sun in the Gulf of Bengal his ship had killed a sea dragon, in the stomach of which they found the helmet, the buckles, and the weapons of a Crusader.†   (source)
  • You're the kind of person who always has a crusade.†   (source)
  • They heard the crusader for dirty words, the social philosopher, the self-styled lawyer, the self-critical Jew, the Christian moralizer and the commentator on race.†   (source)
  • By the time she was in high school, she was a crusader for Girls Learn International, and the group was gathering chapters around the country.†   (source)
  • Riddle had been harboring a grudge against Pimlico since 1926, when the track's racing secretary had assigned his colt Crusader 126 pounds in a major race—Crusader lost to a horse carrying 93 pounds.†   (source)
  • It is Madame Mao's wish that you don't just grow up being a dancer, but a revolutionary guard, a dedicated and faithful servant of Chairman Mao's great crusade!†   (source)
  • Many of the Wazir men had fought alongside American Special Forces in their crusade to drive the Soviets from Pashtun lands in Afghanistan.†   (source)
  • The first of them was a Crusader, who assumed the duty in exchange for a gift of great value.†   (source)
  • His crutch clears a wide path through the middle of the backyard as he continues his crusade.†   (source)
  • He was a furious crusader, ready to do battle in forums, press conferences, and universities; wherever no one else was brave enough to stand up, there he would be, unshakable in his dark suit, with his lion's mane of hair and his silver cane.†   (source)
  • Milo echoed with joyful relief, and the Glorious Loyalty Oath Crusade came to an end.†   (source)
  • The crusade against Lena was different.†   (source)
  • It's Hezekiah Walker and the Love Fellowship Crusade Choir.†   (source)
  • I mean, I could always go back to my crusade against public make-outs in the morning.†   (source)
  • His eyes were lined like a woman's, reminding her of depictions of Salahuddin, who'd kept the Crusaders from taking the Holy Land.†   (source)
  • Working 24/7 around the studio in Atlanta, he had thought of himself as a crusader on the front lines of this mess, slashing the way to the truth.†   (source)
  • Then it was back to the church, back to The Word, back to that old man's quiet faith and his unyielding crusade to save us all.†   (source)
  • There is a Children's Crusade somewhere?†   (source)
  • "My countrymen!" exclaimed William Duane in the Aurora in his crusade for Jefferson, "If you have not virtue enough to stem the current, determine to be slaves at once."†   (source)
  • CHAPTER 7 — FOOLISH CRUSADE†   (source)
  • When he launched a crusade against an outbreak of malaria, Celia inoculated schoolchildren.†   (source)
  • Then those two creeps woke me in the hotel in San Francisco, and after that…Well, I just wasn't much of a crusader any more."†   (source)
  • I kept telling my parents how much I liked the quality of the people there, and my dad kept reminding me to look beyond the Campus Crusade girls who were with the recruits all weekend.†   (source)
  • The Children's Crusade struck him as only slightly more sordid than the ten Crusades for grown-ups.†   (source)
  • Rumors indicated that The Vigils had adopted the sale as a special crusade.†   (source)
  • The Children's Crusade has now reached the shade of Kelly Ingram Park's elm trees.†   (source)
  • I have contributed my time and money to Friends of Global Progress in their crusade for the Equalization of Opportunity Bill.†   (source)
  • He looked sufficiently full of the holy crusade to do some such thing.†   (source)
  • Though not an abolitionist, Adams was a vehement opponent of slavery and became the prime crusader against the "gag rule," a parliamentary order passed in 1836 by the House that forbade discussion of slavery on the House floor.†   (source)
  • Why can't her crusade be me?†   (source)
  • I preferred to listen rather than to speak; to inquire, not crusade.†   (source)
  • And now we're coming back to Narnia just as if we were Crusaders or Anglo-Saxons or Ancient Britons or someone coming back to modern England?†   (source)
  • An Indiana private decided against reenlisting for another three-year hitch because the war had become a crusade "to Free the Nigars …. and I do not propose to fight any more in such a cause."†   (source)
  • Returning Crusaders brought back to their womenfolk not only their vanquished enemy's gold, but also beauty tips from the ladies of the Orient, including pubic shaving (not heard of in most parts of Europe since the age of the early Roman Empire).†   (source)
  • What I don't like at all is this little hair-shirty private life of a martyr you're living back at college—this little snotty crusade you think you're leading against everybody.†   (source)
  • You're like Saladin during the Crusade--they admire you more than they admire their own leaders, even though they know you're sworn to fight until you've driven the last White man out of America.†   (source)
  • A picture of a man's face stared at me from the billboard; it announced a Christian crusade at the City Auditorium.†   (source)
  • I will raise me such a force of holy crusaders as has never been sent against Amber before.†   (source)
  • It would be nice to report that this event transformed me into a crusader for civil rights, but it did not.†   (source)
  • He is a leader in the crusade for free schooling, and for the abolition of alcoholic beverages.†   (source)
  • She jokes that it's because marriage is like a crusade.†   (source)
  • On the front of my arm, I had a crusader cross inked in.†   (source)
  • Or you can let this crusade go, and …. and you'll have your son back."†   (source)
  • Meaning until she finds a new crusade to embark on.†   (source)
  • He will soon see the Birmingham situation resolved in his favor, thanks to the Children's Crusade.†   (source)
  • That would defeat the whole purpose of our crusade.†   (source)
  • In the midst of my crusade I was becoming enveloped in a certain peace.†   (source)
  • This earned the Children's Crusade national recognition.†   (source)
  • You have finally undertaken the great crusade.†   (source)
  • Then they faced the body of the holy crusaders who had sworn to level the city of Keenset.†   (source)
  • 'With blood this name will be written in the history of the American workers' movement, and with feeling will this history recall the names of the strikers of this shop—of the crusaders.'†   (source)
  • Although they also wore the blue and gold uniform, each wielded the traditional "Vatican long sword"-an eight-foot spear with a razor-sharp scythe-rumored to have decapitated countless Muslims while defending the Christian crusaders in the fifteenth century.†   (source)
  • Arwad had been a strategic military possession for an endless succession of sea powers: the Phoenicians, the Assyrians, the Achaemenid Persians, the Greeks under Alexander, the Romans, the Crusaders, the Mongols, the Turks, the French, and the British.†   (source)
  • Ordinarily, he would have returned it immediately, but he was so fascinated by the story of the Children's Crusade that he kept it and read it the next day.†   (source)
  • As it happened my suitcase had been small enough to bring aboard, which I was happy about for any number of reasons: my sweater, Wind, Sand and Stars, but most of all my painting, which felt like an article of protection even wrapped up and out of view, like a holy icon carried by a crusader into battle.†   (source)
  • They lay massed like a thunderhead on his horizon, held back by no more than the Fremen and their Muad'Dib, the sleeping giant Fremen poised for their wild crusade across the universe.†   (source)
  • Carla Jacobs, an Orange County resident with short blond hair, a business suit and a look of fierce determination, sits me down in the lobby of the Irvine Marriott and tries to sign me up for the crusade.†   (source)
  • Their brutal crusade to "reeducate" the pagan and feminine-worshipping religions spanned three centuries, employing methods as inspired as they were horrific.†   (source)
  • Published articles include W A. Nelson-Rees, "Responsibility for Truth in Research," Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society 356, no. 1410 (June 29, 2001); S. J. O'Brien, "Cell Culture Forensics," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 98, no. 14 (July 3, 2001); and R. Chatterjee, "Cell Biology: A Lonely Crusade," Science 16, no. 315 (February 16, 2007).†   (source)
  • The consensus was that this senator was known for her occasionally outside-the-mainstream positions—she had been against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan—and thus she would not get much traction with this antitrust crusade.†   (source)
  • JIHAD, BUTLERIAN: (see also Great Revolt) — the crusade against computers, thinking machines, and conscious robots begun in 201 B.G. and concluded in 108 B.G. Its chief commandment remains in the O.C. Bible as "Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind."†   (source)
  • However, in October 2009, as this book went to press, portions of Henrietta's medical records were again published without her family's permission, this time in a paper coauthored by Brendan Lucey, of Michael O'Callaghan Federal Hospital at Nellis Air Force Base; Walter A. Nelson-Rees, the HeLa contamination crusader who died two years before the article's publication; and Grover Hutchins, the director of autopsy services at Johns Hopkins.†   (source)
  • Langdon quickly gave Sophie the standard academic sketch of the accepted Knights Templar history, explaining how the Knights were in the Holy Land during the Second Crusade and told King Baldwin II that they were there to protect Christian pilgrims on the roadways.†   (source)
  • THE LOGO FOR CRAFT CAME FROM THE PUNISHER symbol, with a crusader crosshair in the right eye in honor of Ryan Job.†   (source)
  • Statues of saints, and of crusaders on their biers, or those pretending to be crusaders; effigies of all kinds.†   (source)
  • The last crusader.†   (source)
  • A crusader on the warpath, striking down girls to make a point that somehow made him feel like a hero.†   (source)
  • This I believe--at the end, as at the beginning, of my long crusade for the future of the human race.†   (source)
  • He did not know that he stood straight and that the gesture of his arm was that of a returning crusader offering his trophy to his love, when he dropped a small chain of metal into her lap.†   (source)
  • Ordinarily he was a regular kid, minding his own business with no tinge of the crusader or fanatic about him.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • She's a crusader, a little old gray-haired Mighty Mouse, a Bachelor of Advanced Activists and General Practitioner of Just Causes.†   (source)
  • When one of the school's professors, Dr. Gallaudet, had read that native Africans were being brought virtually to the school's gates, he was immediately convinced that this was a sign from God to not only Christianize the poor souls, but to begin a crusade of bringing Christianity to the entire continent of Africa, as well.†   (source)
  • 294 When I was a baby, it was common for men in my part of Alabama to leave home for jobs in the automobile assembly plants in Detroit, a lonely crusade away from their kin and sweethearts.†   (source)
  • A short time later they sent Father Augusto Angel, a crusader of the new breed, intransigent, audacious, daring, who personally rang the bells several times a day so that the peoples spirits would not get drowsy, and who went from house to house waking up the sleepers to go to mass but before a year was out he too was conquered by the negligence that one breathed in with the air, by the hot dust that made everything old and clogged up, and by the drowsiness caused by lunchtime…†   (source)
  • A thirty-five-year-old officer from Pennsylvania wrote his wife that "sick as I am of this war and bloodshed, as much oh how much I want to be at home with my dear wife and children …. every day I have a more religious feeling, that this war is a crusade for the good of mankind….†   (source)
  • The crusade against Lena, the Jackson Disciplinary Committee meeting, the lies about Lena's school records, even the weird brownies on Halloween.†   (source)
  • After almost two years of peaceful nights, resting in the full knowledge that he'd executed and survived his crusade without so much as one scratch to his lily-white skin, Alvin had begun to grow restless.†   (source)
  • Their most eloquent spokesman was Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Twenty years after he had described the Union cause as "the Christian crusade of the 19th century," Holmes declared in a Memorial Day address to other veterans in 1884 that "in our youth our hearts were touched with fire.†   (source)
  • Almost overnight the Glorious Loyalty Oath Crusade was in full flower, and Captain Black was enraptured to discover himself spearheading it.†   (source)
  • The only crusaders for 'sense' are the studious type of adolescent old maid who can't find a boy friend, and the old-fashioned shopkeeper who thinks that the universe is as simple as his neat little inventory and beloved cash register.†   (source)
  • Not to necessarily moan about my latest futile crusade, but rather as a way to finally come to know Grandmother as a real person—her hopes, her dreams, her anxieties.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • The preacher, usually the young-looking Oral Roberts—the one who would later say that God threatened to take his life if he failed to raise a specific dollar amount in his crusade—read from the Scripture and explained it to us.†   (source)
  • There was a desperate intensity in the boy's face, the intensity of a crusader's battle, his voice seemed to gain a sound of life from some fuel burning in broken spurts within him—and Rearden knew that the greatest assistance he could now render was to listen.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • First there had been the awful humiliation of the Great Loyalty Oath Crusade, when not one of the thirty or forty people circulating competitive loyalty oaths would even allow him to sign.†   (source)
  • The Children's Crusade, as Newsweek magazine will call it, fans out and marches across acre-wide Kelly Ingram Park.†   (source)
  • [Our] tough experiences have but served to endear our institutions more firmly in our minds." n After three years of service and as many wounds, Captain Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., of the 20th Massachusetts could still describe northern war aims as "the cause of the whole civilized world …. the Christian crusade of the 19th century."†   (source)
  • Dr. Ferris was talking about the crusaders of science and about the years of selfless devotion, unremitting toil and persevering research that had gone into Project X. It was odd-thought Dr. Stadler, studying the ruins of the farmthat there should be a herd of goats in the midst of such desolation.†   (source)
  • To Captain Black, every officer who supported his Glorious Loyalty Oath Crusade was a competitor, and he planned and plotted twenty-four hours a day to keep one step ahead.†   (source)
  • It's the Children's Crusade.†   (source)
  • The Sixteenth Street Baptist Church is the same congregation that launched the Children's Crusade on Birmingham in May 1963.†   (source)
  • He uses the Profumo affair to explain the potentially volatile link between his presidency and King's crusade.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • Milo took a firm moral stand and absolutely refused to participate in the Glorious Loyalty Oath Crusade until Captain Black called upon him with his delegation and requested him to.†   (source)
  • We saw a hundred-pound stack-a hundred pounds, we weighed them-of magazines in Gerald's office, full of stories about our factory and our noble plan, with big pictures of Gerald Starnes, calling him a great social crusader.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Weston says that our best achievement is our cook-she loved the hors d'oeuvres…… Balph Eubank said a very funny thing about you, he said you're a crusader with a factory's chimney smoke for a plume…… I'm glad you don't like Francisco d'Anconia.†   (source)
  • Still, just as the Birmingham integration movement was losing steam before the Children's Crusade gave it new life, so the Buddhist crisis has begun to bore members of the foreign press.†   (source)
  • Along with everyone else in the squadron, he lived in profound awe and reverence of the majestic, white-haired major with craggy face and Jehovean bearing, who came back from Rome finally with an injured eye inside a new celluloid eye patch and smashed his whole Glorious Crusade to bits with a single stroke.†   (source)
  • Even Malcolm X, one of the fieriest black leaders in America, railed against the Children's Crusade, stating that "real men don't put their children on the firing line."†   (source)
  • He sat in a pose he had never permitted himself before, a pose he had resented as the most vulgar symbol of the businessman-he sat leaning back in his chair, with his feet on his desk-and it seemed to her that the posture had an air of peculiar nobility, that it was not the pose of a stuffy executive, but of a young crusader.†   (source)
  • Seeing everyone in the squadron he didn't like afraid once again throughout the appalling, interminable Great Big Siege of Bologna reminded Captain Black nostalgically of the good old days of his Glorious Loyalty Oath Crusade when he had been a man of real consequence, and when even big shots like Milo Minderbinder, Doc Daneeka and Piltchard and Wren had trembled at his approach and groveled at his feet.†   (source)
  • To give his crusade credibility in the eyes of the American government, Diem insists that Buddhism and communism are the same—a suggestion akin to J. Edgar Hoover's quiet belief that civil rights and communism are synonymous.†   (source)
  • Once the decision was reached the parents shared in the general excitement of the children's crusade to the nation's capital.†   (source)
  • Mr. Randel and I had an unwritten, unspoken law that we would never cross swords professionally, that our friendship was too intense and personal to be tarnished in some abortive, temporal crusade concerning our jobs.†   (source)
  • At either of those places you felt that you were taking part in a crusade.†   (source)
  • I'm relying a great deal on this campaign to bring in young voters for the crusade I'm leading.†   (source)
  • I have no patience with visionaries who see a holy crusade in architecture for architecture's sake.†   (source)
  • It led to a crusade against sweatshops, headed by the best women of the city.†   (source)
  • We'll see," said Wynand contemptuously—and continued his private crusade.†   (source)
  • But Wynand spoke of his crusade, impersonally, almost as if it did not concern Roark at all.†   (source)
  • Dominique, which will be worse for him—to lose you or to lose his crusade?†   (source)
  • That stood on guard over the valley and over the crusaders within it.†   (source)
  • Your professor of structural engineering acted quite the crusader on your behalf.†   (source)
  • You are crusaders in the cause of the underprivileged and the unsheltered.†   (source)
  • I mean, if we were to go on a Crusade, we should still be using force: we should be putting the Might into a channel against the infidels.†   (source)
  • Gravely, earnestly, he wrestled with his soul, mouthing with gusto the inspiring jargon of the crusade.†   (source)
  • They were an army and it was a crusade.†   (source)
  • He was determined to hold the loyalty of the four border states, Maryland, Kentucky, Missouri, and Delaware, all of which were unwilling to participate in an antislavery crusade.†   (source)
  • They were both mixed up with the conservative ethics of Force Majeur against which the King had started his crusade.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • He extolled the crusade.†   (source)
  • "A Crusade!" exclaimed Lancelot.†   (source)
  • There had been the first feeling, a companionship of youth under which Arthur had launched his grand crusade—the second, of chivalrous rivalry growing staler every year in the greatest court of Europe, until it had nearly turned to feud and empty competition.†   (source)
  • Next, if you wanted some peculiar person to ride by, there might have come a crusader who had promised to deliver the grave of God.†   (source)
  • He began to hum to himself the great Crusader's hymn: Lignum crucis, Signum ducis, Sequitur exercitus … "We could search for the Holy Grail!" he cried triumphantly.†   (source)
  • They were surrounded by younger clients for whom Arthur was not the crusader of a future day, but the accepted conqueror of a past one—for whom Lancelot was the hero of a hundred victories, and Guenever the romantic mistress of a nation.†   (source)
  • He was leading his greatest crusade—with the help of finks, drifters, drunkards, and humble drudges too passive to quit.†   (source)
  • It said: "Architecture is not a business, not a career, but a crusade and a consecration to a joy that justifies the existence of the earth."†   (source)
  • Gail Wynand was away, sailing his yacht through the Indian Ocean, and Alvah Scarret was stuck for a crusade.†   (source)
  • He contended that the family was a bourgeois institution; but he made no issue of it and did not crusade for free love.†   (source)
  • Alvah Scarret had found a crusade to which he devoted himself with the truest fervor he had ever experienced.†   (source)
  • He staged a crusade against a shady streetcar monopoly and caused it to lose its franchise; the franchise was granted to a shadier group, controlled by Gail Wynand.†   (source)
  • Nobody would have felt an urge to crusade about a building; but religion had been attacked; the press agent had prepared the ground too well, the spring of public attention was wound, a great many people could make use of it.†   (source)
  • The other pages ran a crusade against utility companies; a daily horoscope; extracts from church sermons; recipes for young brides; pictures of girls with beautiful legs; advice on how to hold a husband; a baby contest; a poem proclaiming that to wash dishes was nobler than to write a symphony; an article proving that a woman who had borne a child was automatically a saint.†   (source)
  • Why was the Crusader braver than the pirate?†   (source)
  • In his newspaper Escott had conducted a pure-food crusade against commission-houses.†   (source)
  • And at the end of all her vows she had no notion as to when and where the crusade was to begin.†   (source)
  • Their one chance for life was in union, and so the struggle became a kind of crusade.†   (source)
  • The professor was carrying on a hot crusade against materialists.†   (source)
  • —a meet conveyance for the crusader, whose doughty arm was to reconquer the Holy Sepulchre!†   (source)
  • In fact I make it a regular practice to set aside a period for scientific research, without a certain amount of which even the most ardent crusade for health methods would scarcely make much headway.†   (source)
  • He was not straight-laced, but he could not forget that Mr. M'Coy had recently made a crusade in search of valises and portmanteaus to enable Mrs. M'Coy to fulfil imaginary engagements in the country.†   (source)
  • Meat gave them strength and courage to go on through obstacles none save crusaders could have overcome.†   (source)
  • He forgot how he himself had been blind, a short time ago—after the fashion of all crusaders since the original ones, who set out to spread the gospel of Brotherhood by force of arms.†   (source)
  • Dr. Pickerbaugh made nineteen addresses in three days, comparing the Y.M.C.A. to the Crusaders, the Apostles, and the expeditions of Dr. Cook—who, he believed, really had discovered the North Pole.†   (source)
  • She was a crusader and, like every crusader, she exulted in the opportunity to be vicious in the name of virtue.†   (source)
  • Some set out, like Crusaders of old, with a glorious equipment of hope and enthusiasm and get broken by the way, wanting patience with each other and the world.†   (source)
  • The Saxon architect completed the erection of the first pillars of the nave, when the pointed arch, which dates from the Crusade, arrived and placed itself as a conqueror upon the large Romanesque capitals which should support only round arches.†   (source)
  • Starbuck was no crusader after perils; in him courage was not a sentiment; but a thing simply useful to him, and always at hand upon all mortally practical occasions.†   (source)
  • A suspicion was enough; my lord's liveried retainers proclaimed an instant crusade against these people, and were promptly joined by the community in general.†   (source)
  • THE CRUSADER'S RETURN.†   (source)
  • These martial strains seemed as far away as Palestine, and reminded me of a march of crusaders in the horizon, with a slight tantivy and tremulous motion of the elm tree tops which overhang the village.†   (source)
  • The annals of this Ninth Crusade are yet to be written,—the tale of a mission that seemed to our age far more quixotic than the quest of St. Louis seemed to his.†   (source)
  • , regulated the Temple, preached the crusade, performed two hundred and fifty miracles during his lifetime, and as many as thirty-nine in one day.†   (source)
  • It seemed to him hardly worth while to be the wife of the Marquis de Bellegarde, a daughter of the crusaders, heiress of six centuries of glories and traditions, to have centred one's aspirations upon the sight of a couple of hundred young ladies kicking off young men's hats.†   (source)
  • This was so much her normal state, that Joe and I would often, for weeks together, be, as to our fingers, like monumental Crusaders as to their legs.†   (source)
  • The same has been done often since by a great variety of persons, under circumstances surpassingly singular—by the son of Vespasian, by the Islamite, by the Crusader, conquerors all of them; by many a pilgrim from the great New World, which waited discovery nearly fifteen hundred years after the time of our story; but of the multitude probably not one has taken that view with sensations more keenly poignant, more sadly sweet, more proudly bitter, than Ben-Hur.†   (source)
  • And yet more incomprehensible is the cessation of that movement when a rational and sacred aim for the Crusade—the deliverance of Jerusalem—had been clearly defined by historic leaders.†   (source)
  • …of '89 roughly interrupted in the sap; a European halt, called to the French idea, which was making the tour of the world; beside the son of France as generalissimo, the Prince de Carignan, afterwards Charles Albert, enrolling himself in that crusade of kings against people as a volunteer, with grenadier epaulets of red worsted; the soldiers of the Empire setting out on a fresh campaign, but aged, saddened, after eight years of repose, and under the white cockade; the tricolored…†   (source)
  • For even the high lifted and chivalric Crusaders of old times were not content to traverse two thousand miles of land to fight for their holy sepulchre, without committing burglaries, picking pockets, and gaining other pious perquisites by the way.†   (source)
  • Sergey Koznishev had been following this crusade with interest, and after reading the professor's last article, he had written him a letter stating his objections.†   (source)
  • The hosts were gathering, gathering; down all the roads and paths of England the knights were riding, and priests rode with them, to hearten these original Crusaders, this being the Church's war.†   (source)
  • Nevertheless, three things that year's work did, well worth the doing: it relieved a vast amount of physical suffering; it transported seven thousand fugitives from congested centres back to the farm; and, best of all, it inaugurated the crusade of the New England schoolma'am.†   (source)
  • "Sir Templar," said he, "the cheeks of our Saxon maidens have seen too little of the sun to enable them to bear the fixed glance of a crusader."†   (source)
  • It was not and is not money these seething millions want, but love and sympathy, the pulse of hearts beating with red blood;—a gift which to-day only their own kindred and race can bring to the masses, but which once saintly souls brought to their favored children in the crusade of the sixties, that finest thing in American history, and one of the few things untainted by sordid greed and cheap vainglory.†   (source)
  • "Palestine!" repeated the Saxon; "Palestine! how many ears are turned to the tales which dissolute crusaders, or hypocritical pilgrims, bring from that fatal land!†   (source)
  • "If Richard returns," said Fitzurse, "he returns to enrich his needy and impoverished crusaders at the expense of those who did not follow him to the Holy Land.†   (source)
  • But he saw not," he declared, "how the Knight of Ivanhoe could plead any advantage from this, since he" (the Prior) "was assured that the crusaders, under Richard, had never proceeded much farther than Askalon, which, as all the world knew, was a town of the Philistines, and entitled to none of the privileges of the Holy City."†   (source)
  • —Not the millions whom her crusaders send to slaughter, can do so much to defend Palestine—not the sabres of the thousands and ten thousands of Saracens can hew their way so deep into that land for which nations are striving, as the strength and policy of me and those brethren, who, in despite of yonder old bigot, will adhere to me in good and evil.†   (source)
  • …and Henry, his second and third brothers, were successively preferred to him by the voice of the nation, Robert had every merit which can be pleaded for Richard; he was a bold knight, a good leader, generous to his friends and to the church, and, to crown the whole, a crusader and a conqueror of the Holy Sepulchre; and yet he died a blind and miserable prisoner in the Castle of Cardiff, because he opposed himself to the will of the people, who chose that he should not rule over them.†   (source)
  • The vice crusaders, if they have accomplished nothing else, have at least forced the newspapers to use the honest terms, /syphilis/, /prostitute/, /brothel/ and /venereal disease/, albeit somewhat gingerly.†   (source)
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