"Invested" in V., for what it's worth

[Krafft, John M.]

p. 167: “She had found the comb in one of the Cairo bazaars. It had
apparently been hand-carved by a Fuzzy-Wuzzy, an artisan among the
Mahdists, in commemoration of the crucifixions of '83, in the country
east of invested Khartoum.”

p. 464: “"One of the great mysteries about the Siege is why, when the
Turks outnumbered the invested Knights, when the days of the besieged
were numbered on a single hand, when Borgo and thus Malta were almost
in the same hand--Mustafa's--why should they suddenly pull up and
retreat, hoist anchor and leave the island?”

John


-- 
John M. Krafft
Professor Emeritus of English
Miami University
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