(n.) Anciently, an Arab; later, a Mussulman; in the Middle Ages, the common term among Christians in Europe for a Mohammedan hostile to the crusaders.
Example Sentences:
(1) Taking a break from perusing storyboards that variously show Fellaini challenging the Saracens No8 Ernst Joubert as he leaps for a lineout and Humphrey avoiding tennis balls fired at him by Heather Watson, Garicoche adds: "Our style is going to be different.
(2) In AD831 the Saracens took control of Palermo and transformed the original seventh century cathedral into a large mosque called Gami, until the Norman conquest of the city returned the building to Christian worship.
(3) The government claimed 11 out of the 21 fatalities died from gunshot wounds, the Indonesian Communion of Churches put the death toll at 23 The Indonesian government has not given up using force in east Timor either: On 23rd March 1997 7 Timorese youths were killed and 42 wounded by security forces at the Mahkota Hotel in Dili, East Timor, as they tried to meet UN special ambassador Jamsheed Marker In the first 8 months of 1998 there were 37 confirmed extra-judicial killings in East Timor On 20th January 1999 Colonel Halim admitted Saracen and Saladin armoured vehicles were being used in East Timor In January 1999 paramilitaries trained by the Indonesian army carried out killings in the village of Galitas in the Covalima district of East Timor.
(4) Stanley, 23, part of one of rugby union’s most famous families who has represented England at under-16 and under-18 level and has played for Saracens, revealed he contemplated suicide because he was scared telling the truth would ruin his rugby career.
(5) Less startlingly but more intriguingly to rugby fans, in June Seattle-Old Puget Sound Beach, a leading US rugby club, changed its name to Seattle Saracens .
(6) In leafy Southwell, dominated by the minster, which dates back to the 13th century, Ukip has won over the owner of the Saracens Head hotel, where Charles I spent his last free night in 1646.
(7) Also quite funny was what Boris Johnson said in response to Trump’s claims about urban no-go areas – “The only reason I wouldn’t go to some parts of New York is the real risk of meeting Donald Trump” – and the Twitter TrumpFacts hashtag, which spoofed Britain’s supposed radicalisation with, for example, a picture of a Saracens Head pub sign captioned: “Even England’s famous pubs are controlled by Islamic radicals.” That’s the strongest way of responding to him: to point at the shitting man and laugh.
(8) I know we’ve never been richer in a global sense but I don’t think that the people of Possilpark feel much of that.” Just across Saracen Road is a building that illustrates this part of Possilpark’s story.
(9) With bright pink plate-glass windows and high walls clad in cream panels and battleship-grey zinc, Possilpark heath centre imposes itself on Saracen Street.
(10) You are so worried about what people will think and I thought I couldn’t be a macho rugby player the way I was, and there was nothing else I wanted to do with my life.” Stanley joined Saracens in 2010 and spent four years at the north London club before joining the sevens circuit in 2014, playing in five tournaments in with England.
(11) On Wednesday two London-based Saracens, the England and Lions fly-half Owen Farrell and the Springbok scrum-half Neil de Kock, were in the city to develop the relationship .
(12) I have an English grandmother, somewhere or another an Italian great-great-grandmother; and you can see from my Slavic cheekbones that my mother comes from West Prussia ... My name is derived from the Arab pirates called Saracens in the Middle Ages.
(13) So England got Andrew – a far less abrasive option than either of the former national coaches – and Jones moved on, first of all back to Saracens, then on to Japan, for three years coaching the club side Suntory Sungoliath and since 2012 the national side, with whom he is currently based in Bristol preparing for their opening pool game, against South Africa in Brighton.
(14) The government's answer was to introduce new and harsher laws, to mobilise its armed forces, and to send saracens, armed vehicles, and soldiers into the townships in a massive show of force designed to intimidate the people.
(15) An alpha-L-rhamnosidase from the seeds of Fagopyrum esculentum (saracen corn) has previously been identified, and the effect of the enzyme on rhamnoisic bonds has been studied with various flavonoid glycosides.
Sarsen
Definition:
(n.) One of the large sandstone blocks scattered over the English chalk downs; -- called also sarsen stone, and Druid stone.
Example Sentences:
(1) Although the double-decker bus height sarsens are undoubtedly the most impressive, Darvill and Wainwright believe they were essentially an architectural framework for the bluestones, just as towering medieval cathedrals grew over the shrines of saints.
(2) At 4.43am on 21 June, when the sun rises above the rolling plains of Wiltshire and, cloud willing, its rays come fingering their way through the grass to touch the mighty sarsens and bluestones of the Henge, it will be a moment of joy for all concerned: the battles of the past between druids, crusties, conservators, archaeologists, seers and sightseers are over – thousands of them will be there, ready to celebrate the dawn of a new age for the Neolithic.
(3) Archaeologists have argued for centuries about what Stonehenge really meant to the people who gave hundreds of thousands of hours to constructing circles of bluestones shipped from Wales, and sarsens the size of double-decker buses dragged across Salisbury plain.
(4) Although they concede Stonehenge was probably "multifunctional", possibly also serving as a giant calender marking the solstices, as well as a site of ancestor worship, they are convinced its true importance came from the modest bluestones, the size of a man or smaller, dwarfed by the awesome sarsens.
(5) But we think it’s more likely that they were building their own monument [in Wales], that somewhere near the quarries there is the first Stonehenge and that what we’re seeing at Stonehenge is a second-hand monument.” There is also the possibility that the stones were taken to Salisbury Plain around 3200 BC and that the giant sarsens – silicified sandstone found within 20 miles of the site – were added much later.
(6) Archaeologists have also identified three holes where missing stones would have stood on the outer sarsen circle - evidence, it is believed, that the circle was indeed once complete.
(7) Some experts believe the bluestones – rather than the much larger sarsen stones that give Stonehenge its familiar shape – were the real draw because they were believed to have healing powers.
(8) The stones were repeatedly moved and rearranged, and the enormous sarsen trilithons added, before the final outer circle of sarsen uprights and lintels was created around 1,900 BC, creating the world famous profile of the monument.
(9) Centuries before the first massive sarsen stone was hauled into place at Stonehenge , the world's most famous prehistoric monument may have begun life as a giant burial ground, according to a theory disclosed on Saturday.
(10) It may be merely felicitous coincidence but the sarsen circle of Stonehenge shares a diameter of approximately 100ft with the dome of St Paul's and the Globe theatre.
(11) 2500 to 2300BC: rearrangements of huge sarsen stones from Salisbury plain, and smaller bluestones from the Preseli hills in Wales.
(12) Their hypothesis was that the bluestones – rather than the much larger sarsen stones that give Stonehenge its familiar shape – were the real draw because they were believed to have healing powers.
(13) Even today, scientific opinion remains divided over whether they were hewn, dragged and possibly floated to the site, or were merely left lying there in the wake of retreating glaciations; while, as for the still larger sarsen stones, as far as I'm aware there's no specific separate explanation for how they got to Stonehenge from the Marlborough Downs, which are by no means as far as Wales but still a significant drag away.
(14) It shows the stones in unprecedented precision , from the double-decker bus height sarsens from Salisbury Plain that give the monument its unmistakable profile, to the smaller bluestones brought from west Wales by means still hotly debated, and the stumps of stones that have almost been destroyed.