end
were wordnetdesire, or victory costly as wordnetdesire in its achievement.

And for the moment they recoiled under the  of that fiery
onslaught; for the moment they parted and wavered and oscillated beneath
the impetus with which he hurled his hundred Chasseurs on them, with
that light, swift, indescribable rapidity and resistlessness of attack
characteristic of the African Cavalry.

Though a  or more, one on another, had singled him out with
special and violent attack, he had gone, as yet, unwounded, save for a
lance-thrust in his shoulder, of which, in the heat of the , he
was unconscious. The "fighting wordnetanger" was upon him; and when once this
had been lit in him, the Arabs knew of old that the fiercest vulture in
the Frankish ranks never struck so surely home as his hand.

As he spurred his horse down on them now, twenty blades glittered
against him; the foremost would have cut straight down through the bone
of his bared chest and killed him at a single lunge, but as its steel
flashed in the sun, one of his troopers threw himself against it, and
parried the stroke from him by sheathing it in his own breast. The blow
was mortal; and the one who had saved him reeled down off his saddle
under the hoofs of the