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

[Mike Jing]

Great find. Thanks, John.

Interestingly, those are the only two instances of the word "invest" in the
entire book. Now I'm fairly confident that that's indeed the intended sense
in the case of "invested by the siegecraft of Time and its mysteries" as
well.


On Sat, Feb 6, 2021 at 5:21 PM Krafft, John M. <krafftjm at miamioh.edu> wrote:

> 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
>
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