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assassins

Fanatical Moslem sect that smoked hashish and murdered Crusaders (11th—12th centuries). [Islamic Hist.: Brewer Note-Book, 52]

assassins

Moslem murder teams used hashish as stimulus (11th and 12th centuries). [Islamic Hist.: Brewer Note-Book, 52]
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The Assassins jumped also, but not having measured their distance well--splash!!!-- they fell right into the middle of the pool.
For the problem is this: we know by what way the assassin gained admission,--he entered by the door and hid himself under the bed, awaiting Mademoiselle Stangerson.
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.
The assassins comprehended that if they fled toward the camp without having killed their man, they should be accused by him; therefore their first idea was to join the enemy.
Follow the rise of two warring crime families and the life of an assassin hired to kill the head of one of the families.
Synopsis: The Ismaili Assassins were an underground group of political killers who were ready to kill Christians and Muslims alike with complete disregard for their own lives.
3 GROSSE POINTE BLANK (1997) CRIME comedy with John Cusack as a professional assassin who finds himself tempted to go to his high school reunion when he heads home for his latest job.
Rebellion is a different way to play the Assassin's Creed titles - and it certainly lives up to its name.
But who says that's a bad thing, yes some of the middle order of the now 11-strong series grew a touch stale but my goodness have Ubisoft got a good thing going in the latest iteration Assassin's Creed Odyssey.
Getting into gameplay, if you've played any of the previous Assassin's Creed titles, Origins more so than others, you'll feel right at home.
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The assassin shot him in the head from behind, only a yard or two away.
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