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assassins

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assassins
Fanatical Moslem sect that smoked hashish and murdered Crusaders (11th—12th centuries). [Islamic Hist.: Brewer Note-Book, 52]
See : Assassination
assassins
Moslem murder teams used hashish as stimulus (11th and 12th centuries). [Islamic Hist.: Brewer Note-Book, 52]
See : Fanaticism
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The idea of the two soldiers who had abandoned him occurred to his mind, and with them he remembered the assassins of two evenings before.
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On their small, convulsed faces there shone the grins of true assassins.
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Silent, humane, indispensable in hospital and prison, using his art equally among assassins and victims, he was a man apart.
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