It has been asserted that the word Saracen comes from sarac, a robber. From Wordnik.com. [A Philosophical Dictionary] Reference
It must be another company called Saracen, he said. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
Where it came off, there's an inn, now, called the Saracen's Head. From Wordnik.com. [Set in Silver] Reference
Yeah he’s young, but Matt Saracen is such a multi-dimensional character. From Wordnik.com. [Emmy Picks 2007: Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama | the TV addict] Reference
Lebanese authorities have no record of a company called Saracen and Pelser did not provide details. From Wordnik.com. [StarTribune.com rss feed] Reference
Raschid was a baptized Saracen who had made a fortune importing spices from the East, especially pepper. From Wordnik.com. [The Pillars of the Earth]
Sir Palamides the Saracen was another, and Sir Safere his brother, and Sir Segwarides his brother, but they were christened, and Sir. From Wordnik.com. [Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table] Reference
For an instant, his gaze skimmed the woman, thinking 'Saracen' because of the headdress, but almost immediately, he cut back to her. From Wordnik.com. [The Falcons of Montabard]
It was a shabby little collection of volumes, that parlour library in the 'Saracen's Head.'. From Wordnik.com. [Mrs. Overtheway's Remembrances] Reference
He is always called the Saracen, meaning. From Wordnik.com. [Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3] Reference
"Saracen," said he to his horse, "I shall take to the water. From Wordnik.com. [The Forest Lovers] Reference
"formerly the 'Saracen's Head'" should be added to those of the. From Wordnik.com. [The Inns and Taverns of "Pickwick"; with Some Observations on Their Other Associations,] Reference
Hill would make a short stay and be off to his "Saracen.". From Wordnik.com. [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference
Saracen corsairs destroyed the commerce of the Mediterranean. From Wordnik.com. [The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism] Reference
Saracen ear-rings; the barony, being a male fief, reverted to the. From Wordnik.com. [Half-Hours with Great Story-Tellers] Reference
Sal´a-din (Saracen antagonist of Richard the Lion-hearted), 117. From Wordnik.com. [Classic French Course in English] Reference
The knight often became a devil ranging over lands wrested from Saracen control. From Wordnik.com. [Peter the Hermit A Tale of Enthusiasm] Reference
In the early and more pugnacious days of the Saracen domination conflicts were frequent. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the Barbary Corsairs] Reference
Saracen chieftain, Tarik, who made this rock the starting point of his conquests in Spain. From Wordnik.com. [In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83] Reference
In the centre of the square is a bronze group representing Count Verde (Amadeus VI.) over a fallen Saracen. From Wordnik.com. [The South of France—East Half] Reference
A Saracen who, out of fear, had feigned death, saw him lying there and crawled out of the covert where he lay concealed. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Myths] Reference
And this he did, although he knew his life hung but by a thread while Marsile and the Saracen lords listened to his words. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Myths] Reference
Soon a Saracen arrow drove through the heart of Gautier, and Turpin, wounded by four lances, stood alone by Roland's side. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Myths] Reference
Behind every tree and rock a Saracen seemed to be hidden, and in a moment the whole pass was alive with men in mortal strife. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Myths] Reference
So that the discovery of America may be used as a convertible date with that of extinction for the Saracen power in western Europe. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 348] Reference
Every where it has passed for a lawful postulate, that the Saracen conquests prevailed, half by the feebleness of the Roman government at. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 348] Reference
In the spring, with my arms and my books, I go as a sentinel to watch the coasts of the sea, and to fight against the Saracen and the Moor. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852] Reference
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