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She takes to the blade with astounding speed and then attempts to join Guiscard's mercenary company as a soldier.
Archive 2010-03-01 Blue Tyson 2010
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The acquisition of the ducal title by Robert Guiscard is a nice and obscure business.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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Apulia, word of the arrival of that multitude reached Bohemund, son of Robert who was called Guiscard, a man of remarkable greatness.
The Deeds of God Through the Franks Abbot of Nogent-sous-Coucy Guibert 1088
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Of gigantic stature, broad-shouldered, with blond hair, ruddy complexion, and deep voice, he owed to his crafty shrewdness the soubriquet of "Guiscard" (Wiseacre).
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913
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Malmsbury (l.iii. p. 107) inserts an epitaph on Guiscard, which is not worth transcribing.] [Footnote 95: Yet Horace had few obligations to Venusia; he was carried to Rome in his childhood, (Serm.i. 6;) and his repeated allusions to the doubtful limit of Apulia and Lucania (Carm. iii.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5 Edward Gibbon 1765
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William of Malmsbury (l.iii. p. 107) inserts an epitaph on Guiscard, which is not worth transcribing.] 95 Yet Horace had few obligations to Venusia; he was carried to Rome in his childhood,
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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Agnes nevertheless forgives Villiers and meets another man, Guiscard de Clisson, who teaches her to use a sword so that she might better defend herself in the future.
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So go ye to hell, Guiscard de Clisson, and may the devil tear your heart!
Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: Sword Woman - Robert E. Howard Blue Tyson 2008
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So go ye to hell, Guiscard de Clisson, and may the devil tear your heart!
Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: Sword Woman - Robert E. Howard Blue Tyson 2008
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Paragraph 159 - [1056] - And Humphrey died, and his brother Robert [Guiscard] became duke [of the Normans].
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