What is "crusading"

Usage examples of "crusading".

With even four galleons, I can forget repairing and refining that woebegone collection of hulks down in the harbor and get to the holy business of crusading on enemy soil.

His crusading and seafaring past, with all its enthusiasms and disillusionments, was referred to from the beginning.

After the first enthusiasm had worn off, a short crusading trip became part of the liberal education of every well bred young man, and there never was any lack of candidates for service in Palestine.

This was a Portuguese continuation of the crusading order of the Templars which had been abolished by Pope Clement V in the year 1312 at the request of King Philip the Fair of France, who had improved the occasion by burning his own Templars at the stake and stealing all their possessions.

After the official declaration of war, the government would swiftly equip the crusading army and move it to the east.

The thought pained him greatly, even though he knew that he and the whole crusading force were in great danger now.

John was a war hero because the people of Suzail, in fact the citizens of most of the crusading countries, had decided that Azoun's venture against the barbarians had resulted in a heroic conflict.

All those years crusading and battling corsairs in the midland sea, and still you have not enough of it, but must cross the sea again to get buffeted about Normandy.

But if you're a crusading journalist writing for this magazine and you get chopped into Ken-L Ration in your own living room--killer rejoice!

Loew quash the Hudgens murder investigation because the crusading Sidster recently published an exposé on _Badge of Honor_ producer/director Max Pelts and his bent for teenage girls, and Pelts was a (five figure!

Nor did there appear to be any hope of succor now, for the last remnants of last year's Crusading hosts were being relentlessly hunted down, while every attempt by the Papal forces to resupply the beleaguered city had been foiled, all ending in resupplying King Arthur's army instead.

Granted, the English and Welsh were fighting on their own land and for it and the king they had chosen, but the combined strengths of the crusading forces should have been overpowering, had there been any sort of timing and coordination of the attack, the invasions of England.

Lying in bed, with some of her work as a crusading journalist spread about her, she had heard sounds from the little balcony outside the bedroom window.

The Americans certainly do, for they are natural-born crusaders, forever in the right, even when they are least aware of what they are crusading about.

And yet, when Rhodri was a crusading political writer, had not some tropes and rhythms of Ossian given substance to his prose?