The entire body of problems is presented in exhausting rhetorical algebra, as Holmes might explain an arithmetic puzzler to Watson: "You put 1/4 1/3 in order, and you subtract the 1 which is over the 3 from the 3 itself; there remains 2 that you multiply by the 4; there will be 8 bezants, and the first man has this many." ❋ Alan Hirshfeld (2011)
In addition, they sold his sword belt and scabbard for sixty bezants. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Had a nice evening at the textile guild, learning how to make bezants. ❋ Cavalaxis (2007)
They buried along with their comrades cloaks, gold bezants, bows, arrows, and many other goods which we cannot name. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The besieged now offered to surrender, upon conditions of safety to the inhabitants; while all the public treasure, military machines, and arms were delivered to the victors, together with the further ransom of one hundred thousand bezants. ❋ Unknown (2008)
To add to the coffer of gold bezants, he had found a smaller one of personal effects: turban jewels, rings, brooches and buckles. ❋ Chadwick, Elizabeth (2004)
Baldwin will hang every knight by the heels and shake him until the bezants fall out of his braies. ' ❋ Chadwick, Elizabeth (2004)
When he threw back the lid, gold bezants shimmered at him, layer upon layer like the scales of a carp. ❋ Chadwick, Elizabeth (2004)
'They're to be given houses in Acre, and if they help capture Tyre and Ascalon, they're to receive a third of the cities, and they're to be paid a yearly sum of three hundred Saracen bezants from revenues at Acre … tcha!' ❋ Chadwick, Elizabeth (2004)
Speer, apparently running some errand for Metaxas 'chef, selected a few items and pulled forth a purse of bezants to pay for them. ❋ Silverberg, Robert (1969)
Time Patrol tried to arrest me in Istanbul, 1563, I cut his balls off and sold him to the Sultan for ten bezants. ❋ Silverberg, Robert (1969)
Five bezants -- a steep price -- and I found myself nibbling grapes in the guest-hall of Gregory Markezinis, the head of the clan. ❋ Silverberg, Robert (1969)
I contemplated heading for the nearest inn and dangling bezants in front of freelance charioteers until I found one willing to make the trip to Metaxas 'place. ❋ Silverberg, Robert (1969)
She didn't know who I was, but she offered to screw me for two bezants. ❋ Silverberg, Robert (1969)
I pulled out my pouch and emptied it over her nakedness, dumping golden bezants into her navel, her loins, spilling them across her breasts. ❋ Silverberg, Robert (1969)
By way of pocket money they supplied me with a nice assortment of gold and silver pieces of the right eras, a little of everything that might have been circulating in medieval Turkey, including some bezants of Greek-ruled times, miscellaneous coinage of the sultans, and a good deal of Venetian gold. ❋ Silverberg, Robert (1969)
I picked up a fresh outfit of Byzantine clothes, requisitioned a pouch of gold bezants, and got ready to jump to 1105. ❋ Silverberg, Robert (1969)
Two bezants more and I had an introduction to the foreman of the Markezinis vineyard. ❋ Silverberg, Robert (1969)
Tapping my pouch of bezants, I said, desperate now, "Would it be possible for me to have an audience with the Lady Euprepia?" ❋ Silverberg, Robert (1969)
