With a realm which was slowly growing poorer, and with a constantly dwindling revenue, he persisted in piling war on war, and on devoting every bezant that could be screwed out of his subjects to the support of the army alone.
They spent the next three months in endeavouring to wring out of their triumphant proteges, Isaac and Alexius, every bezant that could be scraped together.
Will a bezant be a conformable price for the cast?
If the hawks are well reclaimed," said Raoul, "I will give you a bezant and a half; but I will see them strike a heron ere I will be so rash as to deal with you.
They were plundered, and beaten with stripes, and kept in suspense for months at the gates of Jerusalem, unable to pay the golden bezant that was to procure them admission.
As charges upon the shield three will be found in the arms of Bennet, Earl of Tankerville: "Gules, a bezant between three demi-lions rampant argent.
A mastiff will be found in the crest of Crawshay, and there is a {205} well-known crest of a family named Phillips which is "a dog sejant regardant surmounted by a bezant charged with a representation of a dog saving a man from drowning.
Venetian ducat and somewhat less than the bezantor dínár.
Illustration: Bank-Note of the Ming Dynasty] His bezant notes, I agree with Marsden, here represent the Chinese notes for one and more ounces of silver.
And if the price of the corn is at one bezant the measure, he lets them have it at a bezant for four measures, or at whatever price will produce general cheapness; and every one can have food in this way.
There is also a kind worth one Bezant of gold, and others of three Bezants, and so up to ten.
They were plundered, and beaten with stripes, and kept in suspense for months at the gates of Jerusalem, unable to pay the golden bezant that was to facilitate their entrance.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bezant" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
