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Usage examples of ansar.

Every Ansar came to the Year Tower of their city and voted on this choice: Shall we follow the Bayder Way or the Manad?

Armed only with spears and rocks the Ansar had, in the past six months, destroyed three armies of the infidels and slaughtered their soldiers to the man.

As they closed with the steamer and her tangled string of barges the Ansar shrieked their terrible praise of God, and brandished their broadswords.

Nor was there time to anchor, for the Dervish boats closed in swiftly: as they reached the barges they hooked on to the sides and the Ansar warriors tried to clamber aboard, but they were unable to obtain a foothold on the packed decks.

In its stark beam the faces of the Ansar were murderous with battle lust and religious ardour.

Dervish Ansar hacked their way on board and the passengers were driven like sardines before a barracuda to the far rail of the ungainly craft.

Ryder saw that some of the Ansar were freeing the tow lines that held the barges together and passing the cables down to the dhows.

The Ansar were so busy with their bloody work on the deck that they did not seem to notice the this bearing down on them.

The three surviving barges were no longer linked together, for the Ansar had succeeded in freeing the lines.

Ryder was forced to throttle back and watch helplessly in horror and pity as the Ansar scrambled aboard and their bloody work began again.

Ryder played the spotlight along the bank, hoping to intimidate the Ansar marksmen or, at least, to illuminate them so that his own crew could return fire more accurately.

Though neither Ryder nor David was aware of it, the master gunner commanding the mounted battery was the Ansar whom David had dubbed the Bedlam Bedouin.

The Ansar were so blinded by the steam that they did not see her coming.

Did I not decree that they be known as my Ansar, my helpers and partisans?

While his Ansar followed behind him and gathered up the offerings, the Mahdi preached to them.