What is "waldenses"

Usage examples of "waldenses".

The Waldenses had never gained many converts although their ideas had had broad influence.

Fifty numbered cards in all, plus twenty Court Cards and thirty Waldenses Triumphs—a deck of one hundred cards in all.

I beg your indulgence, for I have not before presented the message of the Waldenses alone.

He would give them the message of the Waldenses as well as he was able.

I suppose the Waldenses keep track of those who might help them in emergency, and you were the one for the city of Worms.

How close to that truth could he come without, by the rules of this grim game, giving away the Waldenses and thus betraying his promise to this same player in another guise?

Now the Waldenses, like other sects before them, were advocating a return to those original precepts—and were suffering similar persecution.

But I have heard of the Waldenses and their cards, and I suspected there could be magic in it.

Brother Paul's decision to avoid the Waldenses must have nullified the spying strategy, so the Animation had shunted right across to the next contest of wills.

If he believed in the play, he had also to believe in the Waldenses who would be routed by his betrayal of the Juggler's trust.

Yet of course this was the sort of thing the cards of the Waldenses protested: a priestess living like an empress, a priest like an emperor.

Which would mean capitulating and yielding up the information and producing the complete Waldens' Tarot deck from memory, as well as betraying all the Waldenses he already had encountered.

In either case the Waldenses in France, the Holy Roman Empire, and perhaps even in Italy itself would be routed out by the Inquisition.

It seemed the only practical and honorable way remaining to him to save himself from torture and to save the Waldenses from destruction—was suicide.

So long as the Juggler lived, in any form, the Waldenses were not safe, and the Tarot itself was in danger of obliteration.