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  • Most of the people in our building had managed to get away before the siege of New York began.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • For three thousand years, this little promontory has known sieges.†   (source)
  • I'd seen photos of planes like these at Martin's museum, in a display titled "Cairnholm under Siege."†   (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)
  • He'd only taken the black after he'd lost an arm at the siege of Storm's End.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • I already did "The Siege of Ennis" and "The Walls of Limerick," which are real dances.†   (source)
  • Others were on guard, as if expecting a siege at any moment.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Under siege, Elizabeth slowly made her way toward the bench at the bus stop.†   (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)
  • By 1990 he had laid siege to Monrovia.†   (source)
  • The place had the aspect of a town under siege by the plague.†   (source)
  • They found five old Pepsi bottles which they washed and filled with water, in case, as Leslie said, "of siege."†   (source)
  • Even Colonel Gerineldo Marquez, who escaped three attempts on his life, survived five wounds, and emerged unscathed from innumerable battles, succumbed to that atrocious siege of waiting and sank into the miserable defeat of old age, thinking of Amaranta among the diamond-shaped patches of light in a borrowed house.†   (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)
  • In the tradition of George Leigh Mallory and most other Ever esters, Hall's strategy was to lay siege to the mountain.†   (source)
  • When our water went below minim at the siege at Two Birds, Jamis shared.†   (source)
  • The fact was, she and Tad were under siege by dog.†   (source)
  • Jean de Satigny, who had not admitted defeat in his romantic siege, observed her closely.†   (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)
  • A Mechanicsville man died outside Tokyo during a siege of the airport by ten thousand helmeted students.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • I read some history further on Now, in 1760, Dresden underwent siege by the Prussians.†   (source)
  • So like some site of siege in an older time, in an older country, where the enemies were all from without.†   (source)
  • American culture is under siege by new influences.†   (source)
  • A siege would be a miserable anticlimax.†   (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)
  • The city was under siege, its every activity scrutinized by heavily armed soldiers and scowling police.†   (source)
  • Then the city acted in wartime like an intelligent woman under siege.†   (source)
  • Hundreds of enemies had given way before Max during the Siege of Rowan.†   (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)
  • AT THE START of the siege there had been no American army.†   (source)
  • Didn't they put poison in my food during Ferrara and during the Great Big Siege of Bologna?'†   (source)
  • But all such places will soon become islands under siege, if things go on as they are going.†   (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)
  • 1346: Tartars send soldiers infected with the plague over the wall in the siege of Caffa on the Black Sea.†   (source)
  • It was frazzled and puffed out, "under siege," as Jim so kindly used to put it.†   (source)
  • A bloody siege occurred.†   (source)
  • Banging on my door like a siege engine.†   (source)
  • Our joint hands Raised houseposts of trust that withstood The siege of envy and the termites of time.†   (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)
  • They seemed to have subdued the hoodlums inside the mills, and only the siege at the front gate remained to be beaten.†   (source)
  • Part of Kessell's army now had a ready-made camp where they could wait out the coming siege in comfort.†   (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 don't understand it's sabotage, that we're a city under siege.†   (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)
  • "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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Once again, Washington was under 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)
  • A siege is a siege.†   (source)
  • There was something actually indecent about the idea, like laying siege to a recently bereaved widow.†   (source)
  • "I might raise an army of my own, to lay siege to Amber," I told him.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • When three women returned to report we were not there, the mob cheered but continued the siege.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • "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)
  • Only if he abandons his siege of Moat Cailin.†   (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)
  • The academic building had been badly damaged during 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)
  • Alba exclaimed, delighted at the prospect of being under siege.†   (source)
  • I was still at Storm's End, under siege and unconsulted.†   (source)
  • Renly will scarce have unlimbered his siege engines before Father takes him in the rear.†   (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)
  • Since the Siege, however, this policy had been relaxed.†   (source)
  • I promise you, this mummer's farce of a siege would not have amused him.†   (source)
  • We will raise siege towers, build rams....†   (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)
  • It was handwritten—all of the school's computers and networks had been destroyed during the Siege.†   (source)
  • The pale mare is galloping through their siege camps.†   (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)
  • Break the siege, kill the slaver lords, turn their sellswords.†   (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)
  • Richter's office had changed considerably since the Siege.†   (source)
  • Siege towers, scaling ladders, a ram to break the gate, that's what's needed here.†   (source)
  • We may well need to withstand a long 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)
  • You will make camp outside their walls and set to building catapults and siege engines.†   (source)
  • Nico hoped they could sneak up on the third siege machine.†   (source)
  • You know who babysat me when I was held captive during the Siege?†   (source)
  • Between the siege lines and the bay, tents had sprouted up like yellow mushrooms.†   (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)
  • The merry domovoi had been discovered in a horrific state following the Siege.†   (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)
  • The other two were destroyed during the Siege—mauled to rubble.†   (source)
  • The Astapori were convinced Daenerys was coming south with her dragons to break the siege.†   (source)
  • You haven't told me: How goes the siege of Dras-Leona?†   (source)
  • When Mace Tyrell laid siege to Storm's End, Stannis ate rats rather than open his gates.†   (source)
  • The Urgals carried the long and heavy siege ladders that would be used to climb over the city walls.†   (source)
  • We cannot long withstand a siege, I fear.†   (source)
  • No. He thanked Stark, for lifting the siege when we were down to rats and radishes.†   (source)
  • These troubles had included possession by an imp named Mr. Sikes and his captivity during the Siege.†   (source)
  • Am Ito blame if your men let him slip through their siege lines?†   (source)
  • The ki-rin was an ancient creature, whose single horn had been broken during the Siege of Solas.†   (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)
  • "Siege towers can be raised if need be," Stannis said.†   (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)
  • Since the Siege, you have tried to help me and to be my friend.†   (source)
  • Can he clap his hands and break the siege of Astapor?†   (source)
  • Though all had renewed their fealty to the Iron Throne, none had come to join the siege.†   (source)
  • When you wake up, we'll still be escaped slaves in the middle of a siege.†   (source)
  • So far, the siege of Dras-Leona had proven to be singularly uneventful.†   (source)
  • In fact, he had not even been present when the room had been reconfigured following the Siege.†   (source)
  • I don't have anyexperience with sieges," he said.†   (source)
  • During the Siege, the Enemy had uprooted them and hacked them to splinters.†   (source)
  • "The siege can be resumed later, after—" Cersei cut him off.†   (source)
  • Jaime saw no siege towers, no battering rams, no catapults.†   (source)
  • The siege is to be lifted, the armies disbanded.†   (source)
  • This siege was a more intimate affair, the latest step in a dance that went back many centuries.†   (source)
  • But if not, remember the last siege of Kapil and consider us even on all scores.†   (source)
  • Slowly the great siege-towers built in Osgiliath rolled forward through the dark.†   (source)
  • Let's form an alliance, combine our forces and lay siege to Amber.†   (source)
  • If they, too, are to be freed, you must all agree to help me lay siege to that City and take it.†   (source)
  • She closed her eyes and leaned against the wall in a dizzy siege of nausea, brought on by hunger.†   (source)
  • Shot and dart fell thick; siege-towers crashed or blazed suddenly like torches.†   (source)
  • But Sophie and Nathan had quite simply laid siege to my imagination.†   (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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