How To Use Besiege In A Sentence
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The city of Lyon refused to carry out instructions from Paris and the city was besieged for two months.
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A businessman from Manchester fears for his relatives trapped in the besieged city.
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I know you've been besieged with requests and we do appreciate it.
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It just feeds the religious right's feeling of righteous besiegement while gaining almost nothing in practical terms.
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The loss of the barbican had also this unfortunate effect, that, notwithstanding the superior height of the castle walls, the besieged could not see from them, with the same precision as before, the operations of the enemy; for some straggling underwood approached so near the sallyport of the outwork, that the assailants might introduce into it whatever force they thought proper, not only under cover, but even without the knowledge of the defenders.
Ivanhoe
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This summer past, thanks to the lingering soft economy, many vacation rental owners were besieged by vacation and daycation bargain hunters.
Realty Times Real Estate News Channel
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The besiegement of a people can only erode moderation, foment hatred, and bring Palestinians and Israelis back to darker times.
All Roads Lead to Checkpoints
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Every besieger promises the commoners that his only enemy is the aristocrat in the citadel: such a maneuver weakens enemy will to resist.
New Dan Simmons Story
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Industry had always been besieged by insecurities and sinecurism and Department A was not the exception.
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This being the recognised time to give alms, I was besieged by beggars, who spread their napkins before us on the ground, sprinkled with a few coppers to excite generosity.
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The besieged town hasn't enough food to see the month out.
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At sea the crusaders maintained a naval blockade, breached by daring blockade-runners or professional swimmers who delivered messages to the besieged garrison.
Times, Sunday Times
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The prophecy, probably, contemplates ultimately, besides the affliction and deliverance in Sennacherib's time, the destruction of Jerusalem by Rome, the dispersion of the Jews, their restoration, the destruction of the enemies that besiege the city (Zec 14: 2), and the final glory of Israel (Isa 29: 17-24).
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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I don't think I'm in the ranks of people who are besieged by the paparazzi.
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Similar protests were held in other towns, where the party and regional authority's headquarters were besieged by angry demonstrators.
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The President vowed on Saturday to hold his besieged capital against rebels pressing hard from the outskirts.
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The attack, when it came, was ill co-ordinated, and the city resisted with more determination than its besiegers had ever expected.
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Citizens were forced to flee the besieged city.
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He has arrived with his virtually unconquerable army and besieged Jerusalem.
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The pro-Mousavi supporters were being aimed by the besieged, which is the government-funded militia.
CNN Transcript Jun 16, 2009
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The enemy besieged in a few strongholds capitulated on the condition that they would be granted to return home voluntarily.
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As a native of the area around Mobile, Alabama, a place long ridiculed by many as the nation's stepchild, it amused me that what was disdained as a redneck corner of the universe populated by ignorant and racist whites and besieged blacks became the "sunbelt" in the 1970s and as soon as those "cheeseheads" arrived in "crackerland" with no more need for their snowtires and discovered giant flying cockroaches and mildew among other horrors and complained mightily about the tropics they had naively sought, they became disenchanted.
Lake Level Sucks 11-19-05
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The regime did not honour its commitment to open humanitarian corridors to Aleppo and other besieged areas.
Times, Sunday Times
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Workers besiege police barracks and surround the paratroopers attacking the soldiers, arguing with them.
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I should add that MP was not besieged with articles while I was there, despite the journal's age and relative prestige; the non-existent backfile caused some alarm would we actually run out of articles?
MSS
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Tracking back in support of his besieged full-back, Arjen Robben seemed in control as he nursed the ball towards the end-line and used his superior size to hold off Messi.
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SARAJEVO - The United Nations prepared to escort hundreds of women, children and elderly civilians from the besieged Bosnian capital of Sarajevo after their evacuation was delayed for weeks,
ANC Daily News Briefing
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Although the largest, oldest and densest Jewish community was in Jerusalem, which the Jordanians besieged several months before Israel beame independent and, during the War of Indepenence, expelled all Jews from the City.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Birnbaum on Human Rights Watch and Israel
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Battle lines were drawn: Henry brought up forces to besiege the town, while Henry the Younger was joined by troops from his brother Geoffrey and the new king Philip of France.
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Zenobia was unable to remove her treasury at Emesa before Aurelian successfully entered and besieged Emesa.
The Romance of Zenobia's Palmyra
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Harden's Rebels had the city besieged, circumvallated and bottled in a double fosse.
The Black Company
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In a running battle that took a heavy toll of British soldiers' lives, the New England militia forced the redcoats back to Boston and besieged the port city.
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Casualties have been streaming out of the besieged city of Homs, which is under heavy bombardment by Assad's forces.
Syria: live from the frontline in Homs
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An early morning taxi takes us to the bus station, where I am besieged by beggars.
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I am besieged by people who want to talk about leadership, leadership, leadership.
Times, Sunday Times
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In a few Ehn, as we were making our way through a corner of the camp, we would presumably encounter some contravallation, some outer lines or ditches, setup to protect the besiegers against possible attack by an outside, relieving force.
Mercenaries Of Gor
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So drivers are increasingly being besieged with mailshots, particularly as their policy comes up for renewal.
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Following their victory at Barletta the French successfully besieged the area whilst the Spanish looked on from their new position at Cosenza.
Archive 2007-10-01
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It's a bright idea to have crooked cops besiege the police station so that the good cops and their prisoners have to join forces to repel the invaders.
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Notwithstanding this weak invention, Italy was still afflicted, Rome was again besieged, and the suburb of Classe, only three miles from Ravenna, was pillaged and occupied by the troops of a simple duke of Spoleto.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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Publicans have been besieged with complaints about unpleasant smells in their establishments since the ban on smoking in public places was introduced last month.
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The press photographers besieged the movie star
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Against all odds, they succeeded first in repulsing the original attack and then in holding the enemy at bay for almost two weeks while being besieged without re-supply.
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I am besieged with commissions, literally besieged.
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For every useless mouth in a beleaguered place adds to the difficulties of the defenders and facilitates the task of the besiegers.
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Matthew McConaughey, who sadly owns no upper-body garments, is the most notorious beneficiary of the besiegement ruse.
Eric Dezenhall: Crashing Nowhere: The Salahis' Interminable Exit
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In 1529 he besieged Vienna; and though he failed to capture the Hapsburg capital, yet at a still later period he exacted from the German Emperor
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 09
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Then he falls for Mary Elizabeth Winstead's magenta-haired, punk rollerblader Ramona Flowers, and learns that he might soon be besieged by her jealous exes.
'Scott Pilgrim': Taking On The World, An Ex At A Time
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At least 30 people were reported dead, and residents speaking by phone said the town was besieged by tanks.
Times, Sunday Times
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The first warning of this to the besieged was another volley, which sent bullets through the windows and the crack in the door, without doing the slightest injury.
Janice Meredith
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Standing on top of the battlements of the besieged city of Cardwell, Raven carefully took stock of the enemy armies encamped outside the stout Roman walls that had kept the besiegers at bay for almost a year.
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Not even Vicenzo da Lozzo, the letter-writer, was glad of the day, although people besieged his desk under the court-house loggia, and were more than willing to pay him a soldo a word, if they only might write a line of farewell on this their last day to their dear ones far away.
The Miracles of Antichrist: A Novel
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In the space of a year, Hook has gone from the besieged to the besieger, from the defender to the attacker.
Victory by Longbow
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Scotch regiment then besieged in Trailsund, saying they heard there was a ship come from Denmark to them laden with tobacco pipes, “One of our soldiers,” says Colonel Robert Munro, “showing them over the work a morgenstern, made of a large stock banded with iron, like the shaft of a halberd, with a round globe at the end with cross iron pikes, saith,
A Legend of Montrose
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The radio station was besieged with calls from angry listeners.
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Behind him was a narrow isthmus leading to Charlestown, and before him was his goal: the besieged city of Boston.
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On the side of the besieged was a figure that soon attracted great notice by promenading under fire.
The Cloister and the Hearth
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Many also had sons, daughters, or wives who opposed the war, fueling the sense of besiegement.
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In April 655, Osman's palace was besieged by rebels.
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The novel Fortress Besieged represents Qian Zhongshu's greatest literary understanding of existentialism philosophy.
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Gibraltar was besieged, in 1309, and retaken from the Moors by Alonzo de Guzman.
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Potential investors besieged stockbrokers and banks as the deadline loomed ten days ago.
Times, Sunday Times
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In spite of the fears of some, the criticism of others, we have to recognize that celebrating independence in Goma, yesterday a terrorized and besieged city that felt forgotten by Kinshasa, is a strong symbol.
Global Voices in English » DRC: Goma’s Makeover for Independence Day
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After the documentary was screened, the television station was besieged with calls from worried home-owners.
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Armies that ran out of rocks for their catapults would sometimes lob live lepers into besieged towns to scare the inhabitants.
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The rebels besieged the heavily-fortified executive mansion.
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More likely, it had particular currency for a British public that had been besieged for years with outrageous claims for cure-all tonics, pills, oils, and cordials in the ubiquitous advertisements for patent medicines.
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Appalachee troops also raided Cornwallis's supply lines so often that after less than a month it became quite clear that Cornwallis was the besieged, not the besieger.
He Don't Know Him
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But he ruled out the withdrawal of U.S. Ambassador James McGee from Harare, saying his presence is needed to gauge the situation on the ground and maintain contact with the besieged opposition.
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U.S. military officials are cautiously optimistic the move will bring calm to the besieged city, but warn the pullback is not a withdrawal or retreat.
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(One besieger is felled by a tome titled "Projet de Fraternisation avec les Bedouins").
Napoleon on Madison
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In their consulship, Fidenæ was besieged, Crustumeria taken, and Præneste revolted from the Latins to the Romans.
The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08
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Bombs rained down on the besieged city.
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Ramona Ferrari is the star of this episode, as the besieged Echo metas and staff realise they need help, and Mach 4 help at that.
Superhero Prose Fiction: Secret World Chronicle - Invasion 27 Fading Echoes 3
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In fact, the Talmud describes the Zealots as biryonim, meaning "boorish" or "wild", and are condemned for their aggression, their unwillingness to compromise to save the survivors of besieged Jerusalem, and their blind-militarism.
The Days of the Assassin are Back
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When the besiegers saw that their efforts availed nothing, they sent messengers to Mummolus in secret, saying: Acknowledge thy true lord, and desist even at this late hour from thy frowardness.
De Re Militari: The Society for Medieval Military History » Episodes of Medieval Warfare from the History of the Franks by Gregory of Tours
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But when Lentulus with a large army besieged Spartacus, he sallied out upon him, and, joining battle, defeated his chief officers, and captured all his baggage.
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Flying supplies and reinforcements into the garrison, Slim mounted an overland campaign that gradually broke through to his besieged forces.
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Conservatives tend to thrive on a sense of besiegement, a belief that they're surrounded on all sides by enemies seen and unseen who must be destroyed.
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To break the deadlock, they sent an army of 9,000 men, British and German (known as Hessians to the Americans) to besiege Charleston, S.C. A few victories in the South, they hoped, would inflame Southerners loyal to King George III, causing them to rise up and allow London to "Americanize" the war.
Malarial mosquitoes helped defeat British in battle that ended Revolutionary War
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William de la Pole rescues Edward III., detained in Flanders by want of money, and is made a knight-banneret; his son Michael is created earl of Suffolk; one of his grandsons is killed at Agincourt; another besieges Orléans, which is delivered by Joan of Arc; he becomes duke of Suffolk, is impeached in 1450 for high treason and beheaded; no honour is lacking to the house.
A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance
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The rebels besieged the heavily-fortified executive mansion.
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‘We were quite literally besieged for about two weeks, with newsmen camped on the doorstep, invading our offices and telephoning at the rate of one a minute,’ he wrote.
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It also raised the possibility of forcing back the besiegers.
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Makeshift clinics have been besieged with thousands of victims turning up with pneumonia and diarrhoea.
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In August 1552 the young Tsar led a Russian army, perhaps 150,000 strong, to besiege Kazan, a walled and moated town set on a hill.
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Among the besieged was a monk named Schmidt, probably one of the Low-country men to whom the Franche Comté was then a sort of home, as forming part of the dominions of Spain; and this monk was the most active supporter of the defence, against the large party within the walls which was anxious to render the town.
Ice-Caves of France and Switzerland
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She was besieged by vulgar and offensive propositions, her home was stalked and her work life affected by obscene callers.
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The English, says the journalist, were besieged, in Fort William, by the troops of the suba, or viceroy of Bengal, anli made prisoners.
The manual of liberty: or, Testimonies in behalf of the rights of mankind; selected from the best authorities, in prose and verse, and methodically arranged
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At least 30 people were reported dead, and residents speaking by phone said the town was besieged by tanks.
Times, Sunday Times
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The resistance of the besieged garrison had thus become the great symbol of Nationalist heroism.
The Spanish Civil War: Reaction, Revolution and Revenge
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In March 1628 a Spanish army besieged its key fortress of Casale, while a Piedmontese force occupied the remainder of the duchy.
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A considerable British force was besieged at Kut and surrendered in April 1916.
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The sheer act of writing caused so much frustration that any maker of a primitive computer might have been besieged.
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Highlands, with accessions from the English garrisons, and besiege them there.
In Freedom's Cause : a Story of Wallace and Bruce
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Despite the elder Bush’s passive construction, the phrase evoked the Alamo legend, in which William Barret Travis, besieged by a Mexican army, used his sword to draw a line in the ground or sand, saying, “Those prepared to die for freedom’s cause, come across to me.”
No Uncertain Terms
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During their consulship Fidenae was besieged; Crustumeria captured; Praeneste revolted from the Latins to Rome.
The History of Rome, Vol. I
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The defenders ran out of ammunition while the Royalist besiegers kept up the bombardment as though determined to destroy everything opposing them.
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She is aided by mistress of novices and wrestling coach Sister Acacius (Julie Halston), currently besieged by a wide-eyed postulant with healing powers (Amy Rutberg), appropriately named Agnes, and a sinister new arrival Sister Walburga (Alison Fraser), a cartoon-evil German from the "mother house in Berlin.
Fern Siegel: Stage Door: The Divine Sister, The Screwtape Letters, Freckleface Strawberry
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Constantine, after enjoying a short and anxious respite, was again besieged in his capital by the arms of a more formidable enemy.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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Looking pretty in pink, the newly voted Mum of the Year was besieged by the paparazzi at every turn.
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The narrative of besiegement manifests itself in both Westerns and combat films.
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The radio station was besieged with calls from angry listeners.
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The besiegers suffered heavy casualties in every assault, while the besieged were forced to call on the services of the old and young who were normally excused military duties.
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Besieged by the headlines, he sits isolated in his own dejected box of darkness, looking like the face of mourning America.
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Abroad the sword bereaves and slays all that comes in its way, and at home all provisions are cut off by the besiegers, so that there is as death, that is, famine, which is as bad as the pestilence, or worse -- the sword without and terror within, Deut. xxxii.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
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An armoured battalion was sent to relieve the besieged town.
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The besieged soldiers, using shaving mirrors, heliographed messages to their comrades based at Fort Pearson near the mouth of the river.
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So, he's besieged, isolated in his compound, his forces are being pulverized.
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The store was besieged with inquiries about it and the short supply we had dwindled and disappeared.
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Among other works evocative of a colonial place and time was Paris-based Huang Yong Ping's taxidermy representation of an event involving a hunting elephant besieged by an enraged tiger.
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Josephus, following probably a Roman authority, gives an account of the fortifications of Jerusalem from the point of view of the besieger, which is confirmed in large part by modern research. [
Josephus
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The enemy besieged in a few strongholds capitulated on the condition that they would be granted to return home voluntarily.
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It was besieged for ten years by a vast army of the Greeks (natives of Greece or Hel'las) under one of their kings called Ag-a-mem'non.
Story of Aeneas
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For thirty yards on either side of the besieged was a stretch of bare, open ground.
Heart of the West [Annotated]
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Workers besiege police barracks and surround the paratroopers attacking the soldiers, arguing with them.
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Residents woke yesterday morning to a town besieged by press and police, and a barrage of unanswered questions.
Times, Sunday Times
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‘We were quite literally besieged for about two weeks, with newsmen camped on the doorstep, invading our offices and telephoning at the rate of one a minute,’ he wrote.
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Suddenly my agent in England is besieged with calls.
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This time of the year we are besieged with ills and chills, and tend to feel out-of-sorts and a little run down.
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besiege" Israel though boycotts, raising the price of its oppression.
The Guardian World News
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Fans besiege his house daily, while he is regularly accosted by members of the public seeking anything from an autograph to a fist fight.
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I am besieged by people who want to talk about leadership, leadership, leadership.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Arab oil embargo, blamed on Israel, heightened the feeling of besiegement, as did the 1975 U.N. resolution equating Zionism with racism.
When Israel Goes Rogue
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The town is pretty well supplied with mandioc flour, jerked beef, and salt fish; but the besiegers prevent all fresh provisions from coming in.
Journal of a Voyage to Brazil And Residence There During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823
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More troops were sent to relieve the besieged city.
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The Ottomans were certainly in conflict with Europeans for centuries--they entered the Balkans in the 14th century and they besieged Vienna as recently as 1683; but they certainly did not "jostle" the Crusaders for centuries.
Daimnation!: NY Times blames Crusaders--wrongly
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The same stronghold was besieged in 1136, when miners again attempted to demolish the walls.
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As Hannibal's army ravaged the Italian countryside and besieged allied cities and towns, the Roman army followed it at a safe distance.
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This anger and frustration stems from a sense of cultural besiegement, which they are finding can never be dealt with through the attainment of power alone.
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The radio station was besieged with calls from angry listeners.
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The city was besieged by Parliamentarian forces trying to starve the Royalists out.
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We have called for urgent humanitarian access to besieged areas and have urged the government to establish a no-fly zone.
Times, Sunday Times
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Her family, besieged by calls, retained New York literary agent Laurie Liss.
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Columnist Ahmed Gamal Badawi wrote in the liberal opposition daily Al-Wafd that the government policy to "besiege" Islamists with "obscenity" would backfire and only add
Undefined
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To add salt to his wounds, he's besieged by 'journalists' interrogating him about his golden handshake and gambling habit.
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` ` We shall hardly, '' said he one morning to Waverley, when they had been viewing the Castle, --- ` ` we shall hardly gain the obsidional crown, which you wot well was made of the roots or grain which takes root within the place besieged, or it may be of the herb woodbine, paretaria, or pellitory; we shall not, I say, gain it by this same blockade or leaguer of Edinburgh
The Waverley
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So watchful and skilful were the besieged, that the greatest havoc had been made amongst the men employed in working the engines, and not yet had even the palisades and barbacan been successfully stormed.
The Days of Bruce Vol 1 A Story from Scottish History
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Aistulf, king of the Lombards, had taken Ravenna (751), the seat of the exarch, besieged Rome, and exacted tribute.
G. The Empire of Charlemagne and Its Disintegration
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The town of Aurora was besieged by the media, most of whom had all the sensitivity of a ripsaw.
Red Knife
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Every year the Telluride Film Festival pits the movies against the mountains — how much time do you want to spend sitting in the dark when you can be out on the town, surrounded to the point of besiegement by the splendor of the Rockies?
Thin Air, Rich Fare
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As director he is besieged by the conflicting demands of his tours, his home repertoire and his guests.
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Minos besieged his town and his daughter Scylla cut the lock from his head and offered it to him.
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Once the story broke I was absolutely besieged by the media and spent several days recording TV and radio interviews, and speaking to reporters and feature writers on various newspapers and magazines.
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'We shall hardly,' said he one morning to Waverley when they had been viewing the Castle -- 'we shall hardly gain the obsidional crown, which you wot well was made of the roots or grain which takes root within the place besieged, or it may be of the herb woodbind, parietaria, or pellitory; we shall not, I say, gain it by this same blockade or leaguer of Edinburgh
Waverley
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He clearly felt that it would have been better not to besiege the city in the first place, but that once the siege was begun it should have been carried through to completion.
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The woman is besieged by conflagration the barbecue has been forcedly very tragic in the balcony.
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Every time a D-Day anniversary approaches, he is besieged with requests from journalists and researchers seeking interviews.
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Like other liberations of besieged cities in the past, it seems that the final few moves were chaotic and disorganised, rather than any form of grand militaristic march over the horizon.
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Why haven't they been plagued or decimated by the problems that have besieged other teams, including those with terrific coaching and front-office staffs?
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China's Foreign Ministry admitted on Monday that state-run arms companies met Libyan officials this summer to broker arms sales to Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi's besieged regime.
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The Turks besieged Vienna
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There his palace is besieged by human rights activists.
Times, Sunday Times
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They threw pails of boiling water on the besiegers, they hurled firebrands in their faces; they quoited blazing pitch-hoops with, unerring dexterity about their necks.
The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Complete (1555-84)
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At the same time eight thousand workers and students besieged the Kuomintang police headquarters.
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We have got babies left on railway platforms, and in drains and garbage bins, and children bitten by dogs and besieged by disease and affliction.
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In late autumn Kabul was besieged by rebel forces, and Amanullah was eventually forced to abdicate.
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When the European legations were besieged in China's capital it was the Russians, with their garrisons and ships close at hand in Port Arthur, who did most in the raising of the siege.
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Smiling feebly, Mundin stood silent just when I needed him to bring in the cavalry and rescue my besieged story.
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The Trojans are besieged and they fight gallantly to hold their walls.
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Even when besieged by the Romans, they built a mikva at the top of a high mountain in the desert.
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My aim is to revisit their insights in order to call for a renewed revaluation of polka against the continuing stereotypes that besiege it.
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Inward sorrows, gnawing thoughts that "besiege" men, doubts, remorse, gloomy landscapes, all afford them abundant inspiration.
A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance
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The resistance of the besieged garrison had thus become the great symbol of Nationalist heroism.
The Spanish Civil War: Reaction, Revolution and Revenge
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American bishop urges Catholics to 'besiege' New York Times
New Orleans Saints Central
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She was besieged by the press and the public.
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A massive Roman army besieged Jerusalem, utterly destroying the Temple and razing the city to the ground.
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The heavy guns of the besieged ship and her consort boomed out time and again with no luck while the smaller defensive guns were unable to pierce the heavy shields - when they managed to land a hit that is.
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A massive Roman army besieged Jerusalem, utterly destroying the Temple and razing the city to the ground.
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Besieged teachers and others may increasingly find themselves on the spot to defend evolution and refute creationism.
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Ayurvedic outlets are being besieged with requests for this mixture of rice gruel and medicinal herbs.
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Besieged, befogged, we don't dare to voice the simmering question: "When will it ever end?"
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Benabad, Joseph took Cordova, besieged Seville, and was preparing for the assault of that city, when the virtuous Benabad, sacrificing his crown and even his liberty to save his subjects from the horrors that threatened them, delivered himself up, together with his family of a hundred children, to the disposal of the Almoravide.
History of the Moors of Spain
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This psychology has not just made peace hard for Israelis to believe in, but by reinforcing the Israeli/Jewish sense of besiegement it has helped ensure the futility of Palestinian resistance - especially violent opposition - against the occupation.
Mark Levine: What Good is Winning the Wars if you Lose the Peace?
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the besieged town
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In 1565 it passed to the Fowler family, and in 1644, during the Civil War, the occupied monastic buildings were besieged and captured by Parliamentarian forces under Sir Thomas Myddelton.
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Sometimes besiegers piled up firewood and brushwood at the gates or walls of their intended target in order to start fires that, they hoped, would damage their enemies' defenses.
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The besiegers grew increasingly desperate during the late winter and early spring as supplies ran terribly short.
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She was besieged by the press and the public.
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We have called for urgent humanitarian access to besieged areas and have urged the government to establish a no-fly zone.
Times, Sunday Times
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The so-called codger representing besieged law and order is Sheriff Ed Tom Bell, played by Tommy Lee Jones with the kind of wit and assurance that reveals a master actor at the top of his game.
No Country for Old Men
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'We shall hardly,' said he one morning to Waverley when they had been viewing the Castle -- 'we shall hardly gain the obsidional crown, which you wot well was made of the roots or grain which takes root within the place besieged, or it may be of the herb woodbind, parietaria, or pellitory; we shall not, I say, gain it by this same blockade or leaguer of Edinburgh Castle.'
Waverley — Complete
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The greatest distress of the besieged was the narrowness of the place they were in, their quarters being very confined, and the whole place but two furlongs in compass; so that both they and their horses fed without exercise.
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
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Smiling feebly, Mundin stood silent just when I needed him to bring in the cavalry and rescue my besieged story.
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There is nothing extreme about supporting armed Palestinian resistance - they are a besieged and brutally occupied people and have a right and duty to resits their occupiers.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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The progress they had made in their work the first day, while the attention of the Scotch had been confined to the attack on the barbacan, was all-sufficient evidence of their intent; and with bitter sorrow Sir Nigel and his brother-in-law felt that their only means of any efficient defence lay in resigning the long-contested barbacan to the besiegers.
The Days of Bruce Vol 1 A Story from Scottish History
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Lacedaemon was besieged by the Messenians, had heartly leant her a helping hand. 621 Then they fell to enumerating all the blessings that marked the season when the two states shared a common policy, hinting how in common they had warred against the barbarians, and more boldly recalling how the
Hellenica
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Government forces attacked isolated rebel strongholds in western Libya over the weekend, striking a fuel terminal in rebel-held Misrata with ground-to-ground rockets and igniting a fire that threatened the besieged port city's fuel supply.
Libya Tribal Appeal to Rebels Falls Flat
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A massive Roman army besieged Jerusalem, utterly destroying the Temple and razing the city to the ground.
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I besiege your most noble onnur to ponderate mercifooly of these thinks, and of a dockin of the entail, and of a settin of the deeds of the lawyers to work.
Anna St. Ives
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I think it is not to be doubted that Swallows have been taught to carry letters between two armies; but 'tis certain that when the Turks besieged Malta or Rhodes, I now remember not which it was, Pigeons are then related to carry and recarry letters: and Mr.G. Sandys, in his Travels, relates it to be done betwixt Aleppo and Babylon, But if that be disbelieved, it is not to be doubted that the Dove was sent out of the ark by Noah, to give him notice of land, when to him all appeared to be sea; and the Dove proved a faithful and comfortable messenger.
The Complete Angler
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The besieged town hasn't enough food to see the month out.
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From the day that Rupert's name was mentioned in the media, even before our address had become public, I was besieged by journalists from all over the world.
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The cordon on the top of the revetement of the escarp is a considerable obstacle to the besiegers.
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Helpline workers were besieged with angry calls and hundreds of complaints have been posted on the pilots' own unofficial websites.
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The besiegers lacked artillery, and their communications were harassed by the aggressive Enniskillen men.
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The best hope lay in wearying out the besiegers; and there seemed to be more chance of this since the Gauls often could be seen from the heights, burying the corpses of their dead; their tall, bony forms looked gaunt and drooping, and, here and there, unburied carcasses lay amongst the ruins.
A Book of Golden Deeds
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France and Britain are not the only places where the cultural Left has occupied the strongpoints and besieges the inner fortifications.
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They were besieged by opposing armies using towers, battering rams, catapults, and flame weapons.
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The regime did not honour its commitment to open humanitarian corridors to Aleppo and other besieged areas.
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