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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]

assassins
Moslem murder teams used hashish as stimulus (11th and 12th centuries). [Islamic Hist.: Brewer Note-Book, 52]

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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.
On their small, convulsed faces there shone the grins of true assassins.
Silent, humane, indispensable in hospital and prison, using his art equally among assassins and victims, he was a man apart.
 
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