During the first thirty months after the commencement of operations, the Templars expended eleven thousand golden bezants upon the works, and in succeeding years they spent upwards of forty thousand.
Every man was to pay to Saladin ten golden bezants as a ransom, every woman five, and every child under seven years was to pay one bezant.
Examples of a field seme of roundles are very usual, these being termed bezante or plate if seme of bezants or plates; but in the cases of roundles of other colours the words "seme of" need to be used.
The plates andbezants are naturally flat, and must be so represented.
Here be two gold bezants for a day's use of the brute; it is well worth the fee-simple of him, were he never returned.
But fame told him that Hugo de Lacy was a man of great power and wealth; and he has demanded a ransom of ten thousandbezants of gold.
The natives purchased peace from the Turks at the expense of three talents or bezants annually.
Is any instance known of bezantsoccurring as the arms of Cornell previous to the time of Earl Richard, or earlier than the commencement of the thirteenth century?
Now this inscription seems to identify the lion as pertaining to the earldom of Cornwall; surely, if the bezants represented this earldom, they would not have been omitted on his seal as Comes Cornubiæ.
I bid him to the proof--fish up Your galley full of bezants that he sank!
Indignant at my wringing year by year A thousand bezants from the coral divers, As you recounted; felt the saint aggrieved Well might he--I allowed for his half-share Merely one hundred!
These the docile crew My bezantswent to make me Bishop o'er?
Thence he sent his servant to Vienna, a distance of a few miles, to change some gold bezants for the coin of the country.
The King was, on this, set free, but his brother Alfonso was to remain as a hostage till the bezants were paid.
Three casks of bezants and the city of Cæsarea for the Templars if this siege be raised.
Then he went back to his own castle with the five-and-twenty bezants and the arms of the knight of England.
There was a great hole in the rear wall of the cellar, and among the ruins lay shining heaps of gold--not bezants or zecchins, but wedges and bars of a strange reddish hue.
Bezants are bezants and tell no tales," said Guy with a shrug.
The fifteen bezants in a sable field have been time out of mind regarded as the arms of Cornwall, and traditionally (but of course without authority) ascribed to Cadoc, or Caradoc, a Cornish prince of the fifth century.
Does it suit him to reply now to the proposal of marriage, keeping the matter of the stipend open, he may give half relief and still hold the Emperor, who stands more in need of bezants than of a consort.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bezants" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
