Circular charge in heraldry with metallic tincture or / argent.
A gold coin of the Byzantine Empire; widely circulated in Europe in the Middle Ages.
1Not a bezant of which I have the bequeathing.
2After they had used up everything they could find, a mere piece of bread cost a bezant.
3She made no reply, but took from a pocket a bezant, and contrived to throw its yellow gleam in the sentinel's eyes.
4Allday was right after all, just as he had known about Bezant.
5Bezant had remarked, 'It would have been kinder to cut their throats!'
6I can finish off my Byzantine history, and coin it into bezants.'
7She saw Sophie watching with obvious excitement, quite delighted at Samuel Bezant's discomfort.
8Bezant answered stiffly, 'I am well aware of it, Sir Richard.
9He must have marked Bezant down the moment he had burst on deck.
10Bezant studied him carefully as if it might be taken as a complaint.
11Bezant's rough features were brick-red from a liberal mixture of ocean gales and brandy.
12Bezant had been lashed in the sternsheets, and Jenour was already loosening the oars.
13And Bezant, capable though he must be, is no friend.'
14As the knife came down Bezant opened his eyes and stared at the blade.
15Bezant had taken sun-sights with his sextant and now seemed satisfied with his vessel's progress.
16He saw Bezant's mind grappling with this new complication.