All 31 Uses
siege
in
A Feast For Crows
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- "Even sieges have their dangers," she murmured.†
p. 183.7 *
- And to reach Riverrun the girl would need to cross the war-torn riverlands and pass through the Lannister siege lines.†
p. 193.1
- Her uncle Edmure was a captive of the Freys, while her great-uncle the Blackfish was under siege at Riverrun.†
p. 211.2
- It was not quite a siege, not as yet, but it was the next best thing.†
p. 470.7
- I am no warrior, but I will fight you if you do not lift this siege.†
p. 487.9
- There had been a female cousin too, a chunky little widow with breasts as big as melons whose husband and father had both died at Storm's End during the siege.†
p. 502.4
- And if perchance the siege had ended before he reached the castle, he would be spared the need to take up arms against House Tully.†
p. 637.2
- And lift the siege?†
p. 678.2
- Without the Arbor's galleys, how will we maintain the siege of Storm's End?†
p. 679.9
- "The siege can be resumed later, after—" Cersei cut him off.†
p. 679.9
- The siege drags on.†
p. 696.5
- And our own Ser Emmon, no, Lord Emmon, Seven save us, must not forget his new title ...our Lord of Riverrun does nought but try to tell me how to run the siege.†
p. 696.9
- Whilst I've been building rams and siege towers, Ryman Frey has raised a gibbet.†
p. 699.2
- If he could end this siege without bloodshed, then it could not be said that he had taken up arms against House Tully.†
p. 702.2
- Though all had renewed their fealty to the Iron Throne, none had come to join the siege.†
p. 706.9
- The longer the siege dragged on, the more it would hearten other recalcitrants, like Tytos Blackwood.†
p. 707.1
- The Lannister camp rang to the sound of wooden hammers where a new siege tower was rising.†
p. 707.3
- You will have seen the siege machines.†
p. 709.9
- And if Ser Brynden should survive this siege, he might be inclined to claim Riverrun in his own name ...or in the name of young Robert Arryn.†
p. 712.6
- I promise you, this mummer's farce of a siege would not have amused him.†
p. 714.5
- Lord Waters says he ordered the assault not half a day after taking command, after Lord Stannis's castellan refused his offer to settle the siege between them in single combat.†
p. 757.6
- If you slay me, we'll lift the siege.†
p. 805.2
- A siege is deadly dull.†
p. 805.5
- Jaime turned Honor's head about for the long ride back to the Lannister siege lines.†
p. 805.8
- Siege towers, scaling ladders, a ram to break the gate, that's what's needed here.†
p. 807.6
- I propose that we move our siege towers close, fill them full of bowmen, and feign an attack upon the gates.†
p. 808.3
- Will we lift the siege if he should win?†
p. 808.7
- Mace Tyrell has abandoned his siege of Storm's End and is marching back to the city with his army, and Randyll Tarly is reported on his way down from Maidenpool as well.†
p. 937.6
- Am Ito blame if your men let him slip through their siege lines?†
p. 941.2
- His coz wanted to know what should be done with it, and with the siege equipment he had built, his rams and sows and towers and trebuchets.†
p. 950.2
- It won't require a siege tower.†
p. 950.4
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)