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  • It was our anthem, from another moment that this country was under siege, another time it was bent but not broken.†   (source)
  • Nor could the citizens of Prague upon hearing the church bells that signaled the end of their siege at the hands of Frederick the Great.†   (source)
  • It was like being under siege.†   (source)
  • For three thousand years, this little promontory has known sieges.†   (source)
  • But underneath all that, Savannah had only one motive: to preserve a way of life it believed to be under siege from all sides.†   (source)
  • I'd seen photos of planes like these at Martin's museum, in a display titled "Cairnholm under Siege."†   (source)
  • He'd only taken the black after he'd lost an arm at the siege of Storm's End.†   (source)
  • It had been used by various Popes to escape to safety during sieges of the Vatican ....as well as by a few less pious Popes to secretly visit mistresses or oversee the torture of their enemies.†   (source)
  • Lupin's news seemed to have taken them out of themselves, removed them for a while from their state of siege: Tidings of new life were exhilarating.†   (source)
  • Others were on guard, as if expecting a siege at any moment.†   (source)
  • I already did "The Siege of Ennis" and "The Walls of Limerick," which are real dances.†   (source)
  • In olden days, when the town was under siege, it was used by soldiers to store food and supplies for the people of Nove Mesto.†   (source)
  • You could calculate exactly how many power cells were needed, and sieges could be extended for up to eight hours.†   (source)
  • What we're concerned about is how you'll be able to hold up in a battle that may drag on for hours, or even weeks if it's a siege.†   (source)
  • At the same time, the immigration authorities terrorized Mexican and Central American immigrants, placing the Pico-Union community under a virtual state of siege (this area was one of the hardest hit in the fires).†   (source)
  • During an unnamed battle after a siege of a forgotten tower city on the Russian steppes, he pulled her back into the shattered room where they had made love, and he whiSpered, "I want to stay with you."†   (source)
  • Meanwhile the siege of Warsaw, the first chapter in the city's tragic story, was coming to an end.†   (source)
  • Poseidon was under siege and losing a war against the sea Titan Oceanus.†   (source)
  • Saeed had heard that this man had a gun, though he could not see it on him, but many of the migrants in dark London had taken to carrying knives and other weapons, being as they were in a state of siege, and liable to be attacked by government forces at any time, or in some cases being predisposed to carrying weapons, having done it where they came from, and so continuing to do it here, which Saeed suspected was the case with this man.†   (source)
  • Under siege, Elizabeth slowly made her way toward the bench at the bus stop.†   (source)
  • The place had the aspect of a town under siege by the plague.†   (source)
  • Jean de Satigny, who had not admitted defeat in his romantic siege, observed her closely.†   (source)
  • By 1990 he had laid siege to Monrovia.†   (source)
  • The fact was, she and Tad were under siege by dog.†   (source)
  • So the siege might have ended that day if Hildebranda Sanchez had not arrived to spend Christmas with her cousin, and life changed for both of them.†   (source)
  • He called the police and that was the start of a three-day siege of the cabin, blanket coverage by the media, with Blomkvist in a front-row seat and collecting a gratifyingly large fee from an evening paper.†   (source)
  • When our water went below minim at the siege at Two Birds, Jamis shared.†   (source)
  • They found five old Pepsi bottles which they washed and filled with water, in case, as Leslie said, "of siege."†   (source)
  • In the tradition of George Leigh Mallory and most other Ever esters, Hall's strategy was to lay siege to the mountain.†   (source)
  • A Mechanicsville man died outside Tokyo during a siege of the airport by ten thousand helmeted students.†   (source)
  • From year to year, the battles, sieges, fortunes That I have pass'd.†   (source)
  • He launched a full-scale military offensive, bombing Eritrean villages where rebels mingled with civilians, putting the Eritrean homeland under siege.†   (source)
  • Eddis let the Attolians bring an army through the pass when the invaders first came because it was supposed to fight on our side, but instead the army helped the invaders overrun us at the siege of Solonis.†   (source)
  • So like some site of siege in an older time, in an older country, where the enemies were all from without.†   (source)
  • He had seen that look when Artkin had finally declared, after nine hours under siege in the hotel lobby in Detroit: "We leave.†   (source)
  • AT THE START of the siege there had been no American army.†   (source)
  • I read some history further on Now, in 1760, Dresden underwent siege by the Prussians.†   (source)
  • Then the city acted in wartime like an intelligent woman under siege.†   (source)
  • In almost every other place where he worked, in Siberia, in the central plateau of Haiti, in the northern slums of Lima, in Chiapas under siege, he could send and receive e-mail.†   (source)
  • Didn't they put poison in my food during Ferrara and during the Great Big Siege of Bologna?'†   (source)
  • It's said-that before Elias ran to meet Astaroth during the great siege, he begged his wife to flee with the others.†   (source)
  • The city was under siege, its every activity scrutinized by heavily armed soldiers and scowling police.†   (source)
  • American culture is under siege by new influences.†   (source)
  • But all such places will soon become islands under siege, if things go on as they are going.†   (source)
  • A siege would be a miserable anticlimax.†   (source)
  • Banging on my door like a siege engine.†   (source)
  • 1346: Tartars send soldiers infected with the plague over the wall in the siege of Caffa on the Black Sea.†   (source)
  • Beloved by his supporters, and despised by those who lived through his brutal siege of Kabul, he was his country's Che Guevera.†   (source)
  • The Iliad is the story of the siege of Troy, which will fall in the dust, and of its defenders who will be killed in battle.†   (source)
  • It was frazzled and puffed out, "under siege," as Jim so kindly used to put it.†   (source)
  • I've been home less than a minute, and already, I am under siege.†   (source)
  • Eve ground her teeth while Morse led Mirina through questions, prodded her to make accusations, tears "A family under siege?†   (source)
  • We are light cavalry, ill-equipped to lay siege to a city.†   (source)
  • They seemed to have subdued the hoodlums inside the mills, and only the siege at the front gate remained to be beaten.†   (source)
  • A bloody siege occurred.†   (source)
  • They don't understand it's sabotage, that we're a city under siege.†   (source)
  • Our joint hands Raised houseposts of trust that withstood The siege of envy and the termites of time.†   (source)
  • Between Zagreb and the Austrian frontier she lectured Doc on the meaning of doom: assassinations, cities on fire, students swarming through Washington, universities under siege.†   (source)
  • Part of Kessell's army now had a ready-made camp where they could wait out the coming siege in comfort.†   (source)
  • Survival was such a habit with him that he put away his cleaver, moved down the block, this time to a building under siege by its owner's ex-wife.†   (source)
  • "I hear you," she said, and drew her legs in still closer to her, as a fortress draws up its bridge before the siege.†   (source)
  • Late in the afternoon of the third day, the deluge that had flooded Dilbeek laid siege to the banlieues north of Paris.†   (source)
  • Lord Cornwallis tried to lay a siege, but the Cherriky moved so silently that the Cavalier pickets never heard them bringing in supplies during the night.†   (source)
  • The war succeeded in making an odd city odder, and it often seems as if Charleston still feels the presence of a phantom Armada holding the city under a perilous eternal siege.†   (source)
  • With a hurricane approaching we prepare to stand a siege.†   (source)
  • "Thank you, Mrs. Edna Mosh," he wrapped up, "for your eyewitness account of this dramatic siege at the Hilarius Psychiatric Clinic.†   (source)
  • Uncle Albert also got the message, or perhaps he had received more direct communications, for when the song was done Angeline and George trotted buoyantly off together, while Albert mooched morosely down to the den and settled himself in for an all-night siege of pups.†   (source)
  • When President Kennedy spoke at the City Hall those 24 years ago, freedom was encircled, Berlin was under siege.†   (source)
  • But if not, remember the last siege of Kapil and consider us even on all scores.†   (source)
  • There was something actually indecent about the idea, like laying siege to a recently bereaved widow.†   (source)
  • A siege is a siege.†   (source)
  • They were half-day-long sieges of pain that would fill up Luke's skull, more fierce than the fiercest hangover, until he could see, hear, think of nothing but the dry fire in his brain, and at last he would faint.†   (source)
  • In that foldbox is enough to survive a siege, without eating or drinking anything from Karth-Hokesh.†   (source)
  • This was his first day back on the road after a long siege of influenza.†   (source)
  • — 9 Bastion West Side, famous last bulwark in the Siege of New York, was dedicated as a war memorial.†   (source)
  • I can't give you those, while the siege is going on.   (source)
    siege = the surrounding and prolonged attack of a fortified place
  • They would stand a siege for weeks, and by that time yet more dwarves might come, and yet more, for Thorin had many relatives.   (source)
    siege = a military tactic in which a fortified place is surrounded and isolated while it is attacked over time
  • You have the same look Cassandra had in Troy, or Jim Bowie at the Alamo—as if you're under siege.†   (source)
  • During the siege of 1996, they hid in their house as battles raged outside.†   (source)
  • Then the Weavers came under siege that August.†   (source)
  • When three women returned to report we were not there, the mob cheered but continued the siege.†   (source)
  • Most of the people in our building had managed to get away before the siege of New York began.†   (source)
  • All around her Retrieval Cleaners scanned the grounds for any trace of the siege.†   (source)
  • He continued to defend the Hegemony as they laid siege to our world.†   (source)
  • She has read about the siege; she has studied photos of the old town before the war.†   (source)
  • Stannis proved himself at the siege of Storm's End, surely.†   (source)
  • It was after the Red Mosque siege that the Swat Taliban changed.†   (source)
  • The people, starving from the siege, fell on the bodies of horses lying around.†   (source)
  • Alba exclaimed, delighted at the prospect of being under siege.†   (source)
  • Burn his way out of this citadel, out of this siege, out of this disease.†   (source)
  • Stairways did not tend to remain deserted for long, especially during a siege.†   (source)
  • Lord Blackwood and the other survivors are under siege inside Riverrun, surrounded by Jaime's host.†   (source)
  • Ser Jaime taken, the siege broken ...this is a catastrophe!†   (source)
  • Many a siege was lost because an elf had one glass of wine too many.†   (source)
  • Lord Blackwood led a few survivors back to Riverrun, where Jaime has them under siege.†   (source)
  • A siege, a burning tower, an enemy with a torch.†   (source)
  • He will not have forgotten the siege of Storm's End, and the Lords Tyrell and Redwyne dare not.†   (source)
  • The Baratheons had laid siege to King's Landing.†   (source)
  • Do you guys spend a lot of time laying siege to fortified cities?†   (source)
  • We bring little provision, for we rode forth to open battle, not to a siege.†   (source)
  • Maester Cressen remembered the day Davos had been knighted, after the siege of Storm's End.†   (source)
  • Hundreds of enemies had given way before Max during the Siege of Rowan.†   (source)
  • "Oh, sometimes we do," said T.J. "Wednesdays are siege warfare.†   (source)
  • "Even sieges have their dangers," she murmured.†   (source)
  • You brought my uncle Stannis fish to eat before I was born, when Lord Tyrell had him under siege.†   (source)
  • Yet it is my guess that this rabble will not be able to support a siege.†   (source)
  • Will we lift the siege if he should win?†   (source)
  • We may well need to withstand a long siege.†   (source)
  • The Lannisters will soon have Riverrun under siege.†   (source)
  • The monsters' siege tower was still hurling explosive green fireballs into the streets.†   (source)
  • Aside from that, the siege lumbered on without change.†   (source)
  • The siege of the gate appeared to be ebbing, as if the spine of the mob had been broken.†   (source)
  • If we're under siege another nine days—†   (source)
  • Stannis Baratheon's foragers had cut the trees down for his siege towers and catapults.†   (source)
  • It was the only newspaper available in Boston during the siege.†   (source)
  • The Appomattox River The Petersburg Siege   (source)
  • They must expect a siege,thought Eragon, and then smiled at his own blindness.†   (source)
  • In fact, he had not even been present when the room had been reconfigured following the Siege.†   (source)
  • Everywhere it seemed Muslims were under siege.†   (source)
  • For the first time, the First Family is under siege from the media.†   (source)
  • I was still at Storm's End, under siege and unconsulted.†   (source)
  • You will make camp outside their walls and set to building catapults and siege engines.†   (source)
  • Also, a siege by definition required a great deal of prolonged standing still and waiting.†   (source)
  • We might as well lay siege to a mountain for all the good it'll do.†   (source)
  • The ki-rin was an ancient creature, whose single horn had been broken during the Siege of Solas.†   (source)
  • I promise you, this mummer's farce of a siege would not have amused him.†   (source)
  • The pale mare is galloping through their siege camps.†   (source)
  • From the back of the siege engine, Michael Kahale appeared.†   (source)
  • Gabriel sat down again and laid siege to the veal.†   (source)
  • Then he helped in the construction of a siege tower.†   (source)
  • During the Siege, the Enemy had uprooted them and hacked them to splinters.†   (source)
  • This siege was a more intimate affair, the latest step in a dance that went back many centuries.†   (source)
  • And those siege weapons are manned by Octavian's most loyal followers.†   (source)
  • Without the Arbor's galleys, how will we maintain the siege of Storm's End?†   (source)
  • Now he was about to lay siege to the American capital from the comfort of the Four Seasons Hotel.†   (source)
  • At one point early in the siege there were 4,000 men at work on Prospect Hill alone.†   (source)
  • I have food enough to stand a year's siege, if need be.†   (source)
  • British troops remained under siege at Boston and were running short of food and supplies.†   (source)
  • The Astapori were convinced Daenerys was coming south with her dragons to break the siege.†   (source)
  • There, on the field before Aroughs, stood the Varden's catapults, ballistae, and siege towers.†   (source)
  • Our siege teams have the Greek camp surrounded.†   (source)
  • "B-but," Davos stammered, "Lord Renly only came here because you had laid siege to the castle.†   (source)
  • You know who babysat me when I was held captive during the Siege?†   (source)
  • Siege towers, scaling ladders, a ram to break the gate, that's what's needed here.†   (source)
  • When you wake up, we'll still be escaped slaves in the middle of a siege.†   (source)
  • Jaime turned Honor's head about for the long ride back to the Lannister siege lines.†   (source)
  • Nasuada expects us to end the siege within a few days, and by Angvard, I'll see it done!†   (source)
  • Renly will scarce have unlimbered his siege engines before Father takes him in the rear.†   (source)
  • Nico hoped they could sneak up on the third siege machine.†   (source)
  • The other two were destroyed during the Siege—mauled to rubble.†   (source)
  • The siege is to be lifted, the armies disbanded.†   (source)
  • It was not quite a siege, not as yet, but it was the next best thing.†   (source)
  • Just as you're responsible for the mess you've made of this siege.†   (source)
  • He offers his allegiance to whatsoever king will break the siege.†   (source)
  • They all moved toward the third siege machine.†   (source)
  • Since the Siege, you have tried to help me and to be my friend.†   (source)
  • The Acropolis is ringed with great siege weapons—onagers.†   (source)
  • The Lannister camp rang to the sound of wooden hammers where a new siege tower was rising.†   (source)
  • Richter's office had changed considerably since the Siege.†   (source)
  • Between the siege lines and the bay, tents had sprouted up like yellow mushrooms.†   (source)
  • You haven't told me: How goes the siege of Dras-Leona?†   (source)
  • No. He thanked Stark, for lifting the siege when we were down to rats and radishes.†   (source)
  • The Urgals carried the long and heavy siege ladders that would be used to climb over the city walls.†   (source)
  • We will raise siege towers, build rams....†   (source)
  • When Mace Tyrell laid siege to Storm's End, Stannis ate rats rather than open his gates.†   (source)
  • Since the Siege, however, this policy had been relaxed.†   (source)
  • Am Ito blame if your men let him slip through their siege lines?†   (source)
  • The merry domovoi had been discovered in a horrific state following the Siege.†   (source)
  • I am no warrior, but I will fight you if you do not lift this siege.†   (source)
  • I intend to make sure that the siege is brought to an end before the week is out.†   (source)
  • Only if he abandons his siege of Moat Cailin.†   (source)
  • Are the gates kept lowered into the water most of the time, even when Aroughs isn't under siege?†   (source)
  • Whilst I've been building rams and siege towers, Ryman Frey has raised a gibbet.†   (source)
  • It was handwritten—all of the school's computers and networks had been destroyed during the Siege.†   (source)
  • Break the siege, kill the slaver lords, turn their sellswords.†   (source)
  • Though all had renewed their fealty to the Iron Throne, none had come to join the siege.†   (source)
  • Can he clap his hands and break the siege of Astapor?†   (source)
  • So far, the siege of Dras-Leona had proven to be singularly uneventful.†   (source)
  • The academic building had been badly damaged during the Siege.†   (source)
  • I don't have anyexperience with sieges," he said.†   (source)
  • These troubles had included possession by an imp named Mr. Sikes and his captivity during the Siege.†   (source)
  • "The siege can be resumed later, after—" Cersei cut him off.†   (source)
  • We cannot long withstand a siege, I fear.†   (source)
  • "Siege towers can be raised if need be," Stannis said.†   (source)
  • Jaime saw no siege towers, no battering rams, no catapults.†   (source)
  • "I might raise an army of my own, to lay siege to Amber," I told him.†   (source)
  • Slowly the great siege-towers built in Osgiliath rolled forward through the dark.†   (source)
  • I'm still working on 'The Siege of Amber,' but it will be an underground hit, if at all.†   (source)
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