All 28 Uses
siege
in
Inheritance, by Christopher Paolini
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- At the siege of Feinster, Eragon and Arya encountered three enemy magicians, one of whom was transformed into the Shade Varaug.†
Chpt Prel *
- She concentrated upon the all-too-familiar topmost report, an estimate of the number of prisoners the Varden had taken during the siege of Belatona, with the names of persons of importance noted in red ink.†
Chpt 8
- I intend to make sure that the siege is brought to an end before the week is out.†
Chpt 8
- Once you have caught up on your rest, that will leave you approximately ....three days to end the siege.†
Chpt 11
- I don't have anyexperience with sieges," he said.†
Chpt 11
- Thinking of Aroughs and of the siege he was somehow supposed to win caused Roran to press his free hand against his breast to check that the packet containing the orders he could not read and the commission he doubted he would be able to keep were still safely tucked in his tunic.†
Chpt 13
- From then on, Terrin was known as the hero of the Siege of Kvoth, and his dragon was known as Mimring the Brilliant, on account of his scales, and they lived happily ever after.†
Chpt 14
- Nasuada expects us to end the siege within a few days, and by Angvard, I'll see it done!†
Chpt 16
- Just as you're responsible for the mess you've made of this siege.†
Chpt 16
- Three catapults, four ballistae of the sort he had knowledge of from his time on the Dragon Wing, and two ramshackle siege towers were arrayed before the outer wall.†
Chpt 16
- We might as well lay siege to a mountain for all the good it'll do.†
Chpt 16
- Are the gates kept lowered into the water most of the time, even when Aroughs isn't under siege?†
Chpt 16
- Then he helped in the construction of a siege tower.†
Chpt 17
- The visit left Roran in a more serious mood, for it reminded him that, as fortunate as they were to have won a reprieve from the soldiers' blades, there was much that still needed doing, and any of the tasks that lay before them might cost them the siege if handled badly.†
Chpt 18
- There, on the field before Aroughs, stood the Varden's catapults, ballistae, and siege towers.†
Chpt 20
- The siege towers remained motionless, but the other engines of war stirred into action, casting their darts and stones in high, arcing paths toward the pristine white walls of the city.†
Chpt 20
- You haven't told me: How goes the siege of Dras-Leona?†
Chpt 22
- So far, the siege of Dras-Leona had proven to be singularly uneventful.†
Chpt 23
- They talked of many things: of Glaedr and of their sparring; of the siege of Dras-Leona and what might be done about it; and of other, less important matters, such as the crane Arya had seen hunting among the rushes by the edge of the lake, and the scale Saphira had lost from her nose, and how the season was turning and the days were again growing colder.†
Chpt 25
- Aside from that, the siege lumbered on without change.†
Chpt 26
- The number and disposition of your troops; the state of your provisions; the locations of your supply trains; the manner in which you plan to lay siege to this citadel; Eragon and Saphira's duties, habits, and abilities; the Dauthdaert you acquired in Belatona; even the powers of the witch-child, Elva, whom you have kept by your side until but recently—all this I know, and more.†
Chpt 43
- It occurred to him that perhaps this was how shooting stars were made: a bird or a dragon or some other earthly creature snatched upward by the inexorable wind and thrown skyward with such speed, they flamed like siege arrows.†
Chpt 47
- The siege of Cithri?†
Chpt 52
- The soldiers on the walls would soon notice the activity—most likely when the warriors began to move the catapults, ballistae, and siege towers that the Varden had already assembled and placed in the fields before the city.†
Chpt 62
- Meanwhile, the siege towers trundled closer, and flights of arrows leaped between their upper levels and the men on the battlements.†
Chpt 62
- Over a siege tower, and over the warriors on foot: men, dwarves, and Urgals hiding beneath their shields as they rushed ladders toward the curtain wall, and among them elves: tall and slender, with their bright helms and their long-bladed spears and narrow-bladed swords.†
Chpt 62
- The Urgals carried the long and heavy siege ladders that would be used to climb over the city walls.†
Chpt 63
- They ran past one of the siege towers, the wheels of which were over twenty feet high and creaked like a set of rusty hinges, and then they were on open ground.†
Chpt 63
Definitions:
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(1)
(siege) a military tactic in which a fortified place is surrounded and isolated while it is attacked over time
or:
any prolonged attack, effort, or period of trouble - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)