besieging

How To Use besieging In A Sentence

• They are not skylfull to fighte it oute at hande stripes, ne yeat in the maner of besieging or assaulting: but all together aftre the maner of skirmisshe as they spie their aduantage. The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie
• The second was a sweeping victory, and the Athenians followed it up by landing troops on Aigina and besieging the town.
• His last hope of shoring up his flagging position was to relieve Richard's great fortress of Château-Gaillard, the key to Normandy, which Philip was besieging.
• One evening, while Joab was besieging Rabbath Ammon, David rose from his bed and walked upon the roof of the royal palace. The Children's Bible
• Admiral Byng, by contrast, was shot by firing squad on his own quarterdeck for his incompetence in action against a French fleet which was besieging the British garrison at Port Mahon in Minorca in 1756.
• On these accounts it is that I find it impossible to banish the thought of death when I am walking alone in the endless days of summer; and any particular death, if not more affecting, at least haunts my mind more obstinately and besiegingly in that season. Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
• But the voice continued to haunt him persistently, besiegingly, despotically. The Manxman A Novel - 1895
• Many of the prophecies of the foregoing chapters had their accomplishment in Sennacherib's invading Judah and besieging Jerusalem, and the miraculous defeat he met with there; and therefore the story of this is here inserted, both for the explication and for the confirmation of the prophecy. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
• Meanwhile, the main body of the army was besieging the great city which was finally conquered after seven months.
• Therefore, it becomes a prudent idea not to practice scorched earth policies when besieging an enemy city.