But few seem to have joined the crusaders, as Perdigon did.

A weak attempt made by Alexius to detain the crusaders only spurred them to more vigorous efforts.

The last number was enough to disquiet the crusaders, already much reduced by so many marches, battles, sufferings, and desertions.

But from the very first, the ambition, the opportunities, and the private interests of the Venetians, combined with a recollection of the perfidy displayed by the Greek emperors, diverted the new crusaders from the design they had proclaimed.

The governor of Satalia proposed to the king to embark the crusaders; but, when the vessels arrived, they were quite inadequate for such an operation; hardly could the king, the barons, and the knights find room in them; and it would be necessary to abandon and expose to the perils of the land-march the majority of the infantry and all the mere pilgrims who had followed the army.

An old Mussulman warrior, celebrated at that time throughout Western Asia, Corbogha, sultan of Mossoul (hard by what was ancient Nineveh), commanded all the hostile forces, and four days after the capture of Antioch he was already completely round the place, enclosing the crusaders within the walls of which they had just become the masters.

They were expecting fresh crusaders; and they spent the time of expectation in quarrelling over the partition of the booty taken in the city.

(1) Geoffrey the crusader.

One could easily imagine him a crusader in plumed helmet and breastplate, supporting any privation or fatigue without a murmur.

Thus and so on it has oftentimes seemed to me sang and planned and labored the hearty snow-flower crusaders; and nothing that I can write can possibly exaggerate the grandeur and beauty of their work.

" An hour, for his morning exercise, He swayed that sword of wondrous size, 'Twas called his great "persuader"; Then a mace of steel he smote in two, A feat which the king would often do, Since Saladin wondered at that coup When he met our stout crusader.

ARMI'DA, a sorceress, who seduces Rinaldo and other crusaders from the siege of Jerusalem.

Whatever exterior statues the crusaders for instance left, the Saracens and Turks destroyed.

The ships which had carried the crusaders to Asia were now used to explore new coasts and harbors.

Judge what strategists those old crusaders were.