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He wrote his mother: "I feel my own life all the more precious and dear in the presence of this deflowering of Europe."

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More than one wife, she reminded herself, and more than one deflowering, because according to Tilia, the Tartars took several wives, as the Muslims did.

From The Saracen: Land of the Infidel by Shea, Robert