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  • On the fifth day I had read up to Sherman's siege of Atlanta in Gone with the Wind,  (source)
    siege = military attack
  • the Witch and her crew will almost certainly fall back to her House and prepare for a siege.  (source)
    siege = a military tactic in which a fortified place is surrounded and isolated while it is attacked over time
  • Vicksburg had fallen, fallen after a long and bitter siege,  (source)
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  • I can't give you those, while the siege is going on.  (source)
    siege = the surrounding and prolonged attack of a fortified place
  • 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)
  • You're just tired of being under seige," she said.†  (source)
    unconventional spelling: Most would consider this a misspelling of siege.
  • Look at the siege of Mont St. Michel, at which it was considered unsporting to win through the defenders' lack of water.  (source)
    siege = a military tactic in which a fortified place is surrounded and isolated while it is attacked over time
  • From year to year, the battles, sieges, fortunes That I have pass'd.†  (source)
  • Yes, it was at White Plains after all, but the Rebels had it under seige.†  (source)
  • I saw Two Tails and two other elephants harnessed in line to a forty-pounder siege gun,  (source)
    siege = for attacking a fortified place
  • 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)
  • Your body becomes a city under seige, with its gates thrown open and hostile armies pouring in, making camp in the public squares and setting everything on fire; and from the moment Ebola enters your bloodstream, the war is already lost; you are almost certainly doomed.†  (source)
  • They laid siege to the tomb all night, but the following morning, both force fields remained intact.†  (source)
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