crusade

• It would not have seemed a desperate deed in proper England where every other woman had begun to smoke in public, probably more in public than in private, for with many smoking was part of the "New Woman" crusade--"I never liked smoking," an ardent leader in the cause told me once, "but I smoked until we won the right to." —  Nights Rome, Venice, in the Aesthetic Eighties; London, Paris, in the Fighting Nineties
• Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty Wilson thus imagined the war as a crusade, the sort of crusade for American ideals which Clay and Webster once imagined. —  Woodrow Wilson and the World War A Chronicle of Our Own Times.
• ), "I consulted my friend Sir J. Burke on the subject, who assures me that the 'Le Montants'--Godfrey le Montant, if you remember, distinguished himself highly in the second crusade--that the Le Montants claimed direct descent from the old Dukes of Brittany, and consequently from the very lady of whom we are speaking. —  Kate Coventry An Autobiography
• Therefore the first concern of the leader in a health crusade is the human kind he has to work for and work with Seven kinds of man are to be found in every community, seven different points of view with regard to health administration. —  Civics and Health
• On the other hand, if she got out she'd be spending even more time in the saddle, unless she abandoned her crusade--and she had no intention of doing that. —  The Alembic Plot A Terran Empire novel

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