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  • 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)
  • They laid siege to the tomb all night, but the following morning, both force fields remained intact.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • For three thousand years, this little promontory has known sieges.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • I already did "The Siege of Ennis" and "The Walls of Limerick," which are real dances.†   (source)
  • In the tradition of George Leigh Mallory and most other Ever esters, Hall's strategy was to lay siege to the mountain.†   (source)
  • You could calculate exactly how many power cells were needed, and sieges could be extended for up to eight hours.†   (source)
  • Under siege, Elizabeth slowly made her way toward the bench at the bus stop.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Others were on guard, as if expecting a siege at any moment.†   (source)
  • "You have the same look Cassandra had in Troy, or Jim Bowie at the Alamo—as if you're under 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)
  • A Mechanicsville man died outside Tokyo during a siege of the airport by ten thousand helmeted students.†   (source)
  • They found five old Pepsi bottles which they washed and filled with water, in case, as Leslie said, "of siege."†   (source)
  • Meanwhile the siege of Warsaw, the first chapter in the city's tragic story, was coming to an end.†   (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)
  • When our water went below minim at the siege at Two Birds, Jamis shared.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • The city was under siege, its every activity scrutinized by heavily armed soldiers and scowling police.†   (source)
  • The fact was, she and Tad were under siege by dog.†   (source)
  • By 1990 he had laid siege to Monrovia.†   (source)
  • A siege would be a miserable anticlimax.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • It was frazzled and puffed out, "under siege," as Jim so kindly used to put it.†   (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)
  • From year to year, the battles, sieges, fortunes That I have pass'd.†   (source)
  • But all such places will soon become islands under siege, if things go on as they are going.†   (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)
  • Didn't they put poison in my food during Ferrara and during the Great Big Siege of Bologna?'†   (source)
  • A bloody siege occurred.†   (source)
  • He launched a full-scale military offensive, bombing Eritrean villages where rebels mingled with civilians, putting the Eritrean homeland under siege.†   (source)
  • 1346: Tartars send soldiers infected with the plague over the wall in the siege of Caffa on the Black Sea.†   (source)
  • AT THE START of the siege there had been no American army.†   (source)
  • Banging on my door like a siege engine.†   (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)
  • I read some history further on Now, in 1760, Dresden underwent siege by the Prussians.†   (source)
  • American culture is under siege by new influences.†   (source)
  • They seemed to have subdued the hoodlums inside the mills, and only the siege at the front gate remained to be beaten.†   (source)
  • Our joint hands Raised houseposts of trust that withstood The siege of envy and the termites of time.†   (source)
  • "They don't understand it's sabotage, that we're a city under siege."†   (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)
  • I've been home less than a minute, and already, I am under siege.†   (source)
  • We are light cavalry, ill-equipped to lay siege to a city.†   (source)
  • Part of Kessell's army now had a ready-made camp where they could wait out the coming siege in comfort.†   (source)
  • Eve ground her teeth while Morse led Mirina through questions, prodded her to make accusations, tears "A family under siege?†   (source)
  • Once again, Washington was under siege.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • "Thank you, Mrs. Edna Mosh," he wrapped up, "for your eyewitness account of this dramatic siege at the Hilarius Psychiatric Clinic.†   (source)
  • There was something actually indecent about the idea, like laying siege to a recently bereaved widow.†   (source)
  • A siege is a siege.†   (source)
  • When President Kennedy spoke at the City Hall those 24 years ago, freedom was encircled, Berlin was under siege.†   (source)
  • With a hurricane approaching we prepare to stand a siege.†   (source)
  • "I might raise an army of my own, to lay siege to Amber," I told him.†   (source)
  • We were two people alone in a fortress under siege, but she sat calmly in a rocker by her cast-iron stove teaching me about the perils of storms.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Burn his way out of this citadel, out of this siege, out of this disease.†   (source)
  • A siege, a burning tower, an enemy with a torch.†   (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)
  • When three women returned to report we were not there, the mob cheered but continued the siege.†   (source)
  • She has read about the siege; she has studied photos of the old town before the war.†   (source)
  • Stairways did not tend to remain deserted for long, especially during a siege.†   (source)
  • Stannis proved himself at the siege of Storm's End, surely."†   (source)
  • Lord Blackwood led a few survivors back to Riverrun, where Jaime has them under siege.†   (source)
  • Many a siege was lost because an elf had one glass of wine too many.†   (source)
  • The Baratheons had laid siege to King's Landing.†   (source)
  • He will not have forgotten the siege of Storm's End, and the Lords Tyrell and Redwyne dare not.†   (source)
  • Ser Jaime taken, the siege broken …. this is a catastrophe!†   (source)
  • "Oh, sometimes we do," said T.J. "Wednesdays are siege warfare.†   (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)
  • Do you guys spend a lot of time laying siege to fortified cities?†   (source)
  • Hundreds of enemies had given way before Max during the Siege of Rowan.†   (source)
  • Poseidon was under siege and losing a war against the sea Titan Oceanus.†   (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)
  • During the siege of 1996, they hid in their house as battles raged outside.†   (source)
  • The Urgals carried the long and heavy siege ladders that would be used to climb over the city walls.†   (source)
  • Yet it is my guess that this rabble will not be able to support a siege.†   (source)
  • Without the Arbor's galleys, how will we maintain the siege of Storm's End?"†   (source)
  • Everywhere it seemed Muslims were under siege.†   (source)
  • The siege is to be lifted, the armies disbanded.†   (source)
  • I was still at Storm's End, under siege and unconsulted."†   (source)
  • The siege of the gate appeared to be ebbing, as if the spine of the mob had been broken.†   (source)
  • Our siege teams have the Greek camp surrounded.†   (source)
  • No. He thanked Stark, for lifting the siege when we were down to rats and radishes.†   (source)
  • It was the only newspaper available in Boston during the siege.†   (source)
  • The Appomattox River The Petersburg Siege   (source)
  • The monsters' siege tower was still hurling explosive green fireballs into the streets.†   (source)
  • They must expect a siege,thought Eragon, and then smiled at his own blindness.†   (source)
  • Since the Siege, however, this policy had been relaxed.†   (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)
  • The Lannisters will soon have Riverrun under siege.†   (source)
  • He offers his allegiance to whatsoever king will break the siege.†   (source)
  • Also, a siege by definition required a great deal of prolonged standing still and waiting.†   (source)
  • Since the Siege, you have tried to help me and to be my friend.†   (source)
  • Just as you're responsible for the mess you've made of this siege.†   (source)
  • Jaime turned Honor's head about for the long ride back to the Lannister siege lines.†   (source)
  • We will raise siege towers, build rams….†   (source)
  • Nico hoped they could sneak up on the third siege machine.†   (source)
  • Gabriel sat down again and laid siege to the veal.†   (source)
  • Richter's office had changed considerably since the Siege.†   (source)
  • I intend to make sure that the siege is brought to an end before the week is out.†   (source)
  • "When you wake up, we'll still be escaped slaves in the middle of a siege.†   (source)
  • From the back of the siege engine, Michael Kahale appeared.†   (source)
  • Siege towers, scaling ladders, a ram to break the gate, that's what's needed here."†   (source)
  • At one point early in the siege there were 4,000 men at work on Prospect Hill alone.†   (source)
  • "B-but," Davos stammered, "Lord Renly only came here because you had laid siege to the castle.†   (source)
  • Now he was about to lay siege to the American capital from the comfort of the Four Seasons Hotel.†   (source)
  • British troops remained under siege at Boston and were running short of food and supplies.†   (source)
  • We cannot long withstand a siege, I fear.†   (source)
  • So far, the siege of Dras-Leona had proven to be singularly uneventful.†   (source)
  • They all moved toward the third siege machine.†   (source)
  • Renly will scarce have unlimbered his siege engines before Father takes him in the rear.†   (source)
  • The academic building had been badly damaged during the Siege.†   (source)
  • Am Ito blame if your men let him slip through their siege lines?†   (source)
  • The pale mare is galloping through their siege camps.†   (source)
  • Though all had renewed their fealty to the Iron Throne, none had come to join the siege.†   (source)
  • Stannis Baratheon's foragers had cut the trees down for his siege towers and catapults.†   (source)
  • We might as well lay siege to a mountain for all the good it'll do.†   (source)
  • The Acropolis is ringed with great siege weapons—onagers.†   (source)
  • The ki-rin was an ancient creature, whose single horn had been broken during the Siege of Solas.†   (source)
  • Break the siege, kill the slaver lords, turn their sellswords.†   (source)
  • Whilst I've been building rams and siege towers, Ryman Frey has raised a gibbet.†   (source)
  • Are the gates kept lowered into the water most of the time, even when Aroughs isn't under siege?†   (source)
  • "When Mace Tyrell laid siege to Storm's End, Stannis ate rats rather than open his gates."†   (source)
  • And those siege weapons are manned by Octavian's most loyal followers."†   (source)
  • During the Siege, the Enemy had uprooted them and hacked them to splinters.†   (source)
  • If we're under siege another nine days—"†   (source)
  • Nasuada expects us to end the siege within a few days, and by Angvard, I'll see it done!†   (source)
  • I am no warrior, but I will fight you if you do not lift this siege.†   (source)
  • The other two were destroyed during the Siege—mauled to rubble.†   (source)
  • This siege was a more intimate affair, the latest step in a dance that went back many centuries.†   (source)
  • You will make camp outside their walls and set to building catapults and siege engines.†   (source)
  • The Astapori were convinced Daenerys was coming south with her dragons to break the siege.†   (source)
  • "I have food enough to stand a year's siege, if need be."†   (source)
  • The merry domovoi had been discovered in a horrific state following the Siege.†   (source)
  • Aside from that, the siege lumbered on without change.†   (source)
  • It was not quite a siege, not as yet, but it was the next best thing.†   (source)
  • These troubles had included possession by an imp named Mr. Sikes and his captivity during the Siege.†   (source)
  • You haven't told me: How goes the siege of Dras-Leona?†   (source)
  • "I promise you, this mummer's farce of a siege would not have amused him.†   (source)
  • Between the siege lines and the bay, tents had sprouted up like yellow mushrooms.†   (source)
  • Will we lift the siege if he should win?†   (source)
  • It was handwritten—all of the school's computers and networks had been destroyed during the Siege.†   (source)
  • There, on the field before Aroughs, stood the Varden's catapults, ballistae, and siege towers.†   (source)
  • Can he clap his hands and break the siege of Astapor?†   (source)
  • The Lannister camp rang to the sound of wooden hammers where a new siege tower was rising.†   (source)
  • Then he helped in the construction of a siege tower.†   (source)
  • Jaime saw no siege towers, no battering rams, no catapults.†   (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)
  • You know who babysat me when I was held captive during the Siege?†   (source)
  • The siege can be resumed later, after—†   (source)
  • We may well need to withstand a long siege.†   (source)
  • Only if he abandons his siege of Moat Cailin.†   (source)
  • Chapter 4 The Siege of Gondor Pippin was roused by Gandalf.†   (source)
  • But if not, remember the last siege of Kapil and consider us even on all scores.†   (source)
  • Shot and dart fell thick; siege-towers crashed or blazed suddenly like torches.†   (source)
  • I'm still working on 'The Siege of Amber,' but it will be an underground hit, if at all.†   (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)
  • Slowly the great siege-towers built in Osgiliath rolled forward through the dark.†   (source)
  • But Sophie and Nathan had quite simply laid siege to my imagination.†   (source)
  • Let's form an alliance, combine our forces and lay siege to Amber.†   (source)
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