All 26 Uses
siege
in
A Clash of Kings
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- Maester Cressen remembered the day Davos had been knighted, after the siege of Storm's End.†
p. 11.8 *
- Little enough, yet it had kept the garrison alive long enough for Eddard Stark to reach Storm's End and break the siege.†
p. 12.2
- No. He thanked Stark, for lifting the siege when we were down to rats and radishes.†
p. 16.9
- Renly will scarce have unlimbered his siege engines before Father takes him in the rear.†
p. 321.5
- Great siege engines lined the grassy verge of the roseroad, mangonels and trebuchets and rolling rams mounted on wheels taller than a man on horseback.†
p. 338.6
- From the top of his tallest siege tower, a wheeled oaken immensity covered with rawhides, streamed the largest war banner that Catelyn had ever seen—a cloth big enough to carpet many a hall, shimmering gold, with the crowned stag of Baratheon black upon it, prancing proud and tall.†
p. 339.6
- He's laid siege to Storm's End.†
p. 399.6
- Stannis Baratheon's foragers had cut the trees down for his siege towers and catapults.†
p. 470.6
- Catelyn wondered how long the grove had stood, and whether Ned had rested here when he led his host south to lift the last siege of Storm's End.†
p. 470.7
- When the Lords Tyrell and Redwyne held you prisoned in that castle, starving, it was Eddard Stark who broke the siege.†
p. 473.7
- His great mass of foot he had left behind at Bitterbridge with his young queen, his wagons, carts, draft animals, and all his cumbersome siege machinery, while Renly himself led his knights and freeriders in a swift dash east.†
p. 481.2
- Let Lord Stannis have his siege.†
p. 481.9
- When Mace Tyrell laid siege to Storm's End, Stannis ate rats rather than open his gates.†
p. 500.3
- "Renly is dead, Your Grace," Littlefinger pointed out, "and neither Stannis nor Lord Paxter will have forgotten how Redwyne galleys closed the sea during the siege of Storm's End.†
p. 534.9
- You will make camp outside their walls and set to building catapults and siege engines.†
p. 545.7
- When he sees you raising siege towers, his old woman's blood will run cold, and he will bleat for help.†
p. 545.8
- Without siege engines there was no way to storm Casterly Rock, so the Young Wolf was paying the Lannisters back in kind for the devastation they'd inflicted on the river-lands.†
p. 559.2
- He offers his allegiance to whatsoever king will break the siege.†
p. 565.3
- Only my sweet brother would crowd all these useless mouths into a castle that might soon be under siege.†
p. 568.2
- A siege would take too long, single combat is too chancy, and an assault would cost thousands of lives with no certainty of success.†
p. 615.8
- "B-but," Davos stammered, "Lord Renly only came here because you had laid siege to the castle.†
p. 617.4
- And I've had reports that Lord Manderly has sent a dozen barges upriver packed with knights, warhorses, and siege engines.†
p. 806.1
- Tallhart men had taken the castle of the Darrys, accepting the surrender of its Lannister garrison after a brief siege.†
p. 892.7
- I have food enough to stand a year's siege, if need be.†
p. 917.5
- There will be no siege.†
p. 917.5
- He saw no siege towers rumbling up the kingsroad, but there was timber enough in the wolfswood to build as many as were required.†
p. 919.5
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)