Besieged

Examples

• They did not sit down to be besieged while the mutineers organized and gathered prestige; that would have lost them India for ever. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• And now, the sea, late our defence, seems our prison bound; hemmed in by its gulphs, we shall die like the famished inhabitants of a besieged town. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• We are regularly besieged. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• This the Romans besieged, and a period of trench warfare ensued. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The position occupied by the Army of the Cumberland had been made very strong for defence during the months it had been besieged. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Hooker's position in Lookout Valley was absolutely essential to us so long as Chattanooga was besieged. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Of course we were besieged by a rabble of muscular Egyptians and Arabs who wanted the contract of dragging us to the top--all tourists are. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• While General Taylor was away with the bulk of his army, the little garrison up the river was besieged. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• They shouted their opinion of the whole business to the besieged. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Dobbin, who was thus vigorously besieged, was in the meanwhile in a state of the most odious tranquillity. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The ladders are thrown down, replied Rebecca, shuddering; the soldiers lie grovelling under them like crushed reptiles--The besieged have the better. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• This timber was struck six or eight miles out from the besieged garrison, at a point known as Palo Alto--Tall trees or woods. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• In 1529 the Turks besieged Vienna, and were defeated rather by the weather than by the defenders. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• They appointed Camillus, who had besieged and taken Veii from the Etruscans. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• A genteel foraging party besieged Shirley in her castle, and compelled her to surrender at discretion. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• About the 5th of July he was besieged again, Sherman getting easy possession of the Chattahoochee River both above and below him. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The German army invaded France, failed to take Marseilles, fell back into Italy, lost Milan, and was besieged in Pavia. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Mr. Jos was away, being besieged by an Irish widow at Cheltenham. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Finally he found himself and Cleopatra besieged by Octavian in Alexandria. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Burnside was in about as desperate a condition as the Army of the Cumberland had been, only he was not yet besieged. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Royalty was gone; had been besieged in its Palace and suspended, when the last tidings came over. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• He reached this latter place on the 14th of February, while Donelson was still besieged. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• When thus prostrate, temptations besieged her. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• He was out of spirits and slightly out of temper, and a haunting horror of doing the same thing every day at the same hour besieged his brain. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• Practically, the Army of the Cumberland was besieged. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• After McPherson crossed the Big Black at Hankinson's ferry Vicksburg could have been approached and besieged by the south side. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.

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