All 40 Uses
siege
in
A Dance With Dragons
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- Groleo had been a most unhappy man since they had broken up his ship to build the siege engines that won Meereen for her.†
p. 234.9 *
- Only if he abandons his siege of Moat Cailin.†
p. 247.6
- Centuries ago, House Bolton rose up against the King in the North, and Harlon Stark laid siege to the Dreadfort.†
p. 248.2
- To have any hope of taking the castle, Your Grace would need siege engines, towers, battering rams ...†
p. 248.2
- "Siege towers can be raised if need be," Stannis said.†
p. 248.3
- Can he clap his hands and break the siege of Astapor?†
p. 323.7
- Astapor is under siege as well.†
p. 332.5
- The Yunkishmen were still running about in fluttering tokars trying to get their half-trained slave soldiers into some semblance of order as Unsullied spears came crashing through their siege lines.†
p. 357.8
- The Astapori were convinced Daenerys was coming south with her dragons to break the siege.†
p. 359.5
- There were ships from Meereen out in the bay too, warships and trading galleys whose captains had taken them to sea when Dany's host first laid siege to the city, now returned to augment the fleets from Qarth, Tolos, and New Ghis.†
p. 434.4
- We cannot long withstand a siege, I fear.†
p. 445.8
- We may well need to withstand a long siege.†
p. 523.2
- ...the Astapori would eat through their portion in days, and we would have that much less for the siege.†
p. 523.4
- Bolton will never march out to face us in the field, and we do not have the provisions to mount a siege.†
p. 605.5
- We will raise siege towers, build rams....†
p. 605.6
- No siege towers, though.†
p. 622.1
- They would wait behind their siege lines, flinging stones at her until famine and disease had brought her people to their knees.†
p. 622.1
- The castle was too crowded to withstand a long siege, and too many of the lords here were of uncertain loyalty.†
p. 673.5
- Mormont paid no mind to the mongrel crowd; his eyes were fixed beyond the siege lines, on the distant city with its ancient walls of many-colored brick.†
p. 682.2
- Nurse climbed onto the front of the mule cart and took up the reins, and they set off through the siege camp to the compound of their new master, the noble Yezzan zo Qaggaz.†
p. 683.9
- Between the siege lines and the bay, tents had sprouted up like yellow mushrooms.†
p. 684.3
- Towering above the tents to a height of forty feet, the trebuchets were the siege camp's chief landmarks.†
p. 684.8
- The sight of little people running about drunkenly and whacking at one another with wooden weapons appeared to be just as hilarious in a siege camp by Slaver's Bay as at Joffrey's wedding feast in King's Landing.†
p. 688.5
- This siege was a more intimate affair, the latest step in a dance that went back many centuries.†
p. 693.2
- Jaime saw no siege towers, no battering rams, no catapults.†
p. 693.2
- No doubt there had been sorties and skirmishes at the start of the siege, and arrows flying back and forth; half a year into it, everyone was too tired for such nonsense.†
p. 693.4
- He might seek it, but to find it he'd need to get past my siege lines, and last I heard he hadn't grown wings.†
p. 696.8
- When he rode from Bracken's siege camp to the gates of Raventree, Peck went before him with a peace banner.†
p. 698.9
- To balance the three Yunkish nobles and four sellsword captains, Meereen sent seven of its own out to the siege camp: Hizdahr's sister, two of his cousins, Dany's bloodrider Jhogo, her admiral Groleo, the Unsullied captain Hero, and Daario Naharis.†
p. 725.9
- The pale mare is galloping through their siege camps.†
p. 801.9
- Break the siege, kill the slaver lords, turn their sellswords.†
p. 809.5
- See how long their siege lasts then.†
p. 831.9
- The siege is to be lifted, the armies disbanded.†
p. 874.7
- Mace Tyrell has abandoned his siege of Storm's End to march back to King's Landing and save his daughter, leaving only a token force behind to keep Stannis's men penned up inside the castle.†
p. 884.3
- Building siege towers?†
p. 899.1
- We'll raise siege towers.†
p. 900.7
- When you wake up, we'll still be escaped slaves in the middle of a siege.†
p. 953.1
- Burst from the gates and swarm across the siege lines, smash the Yunkai'i as they come stumbling from their beds.†
p. 956.3
- I have had some maps prepared to show the dispositions of our foes, their camps and siege lines and trebuchets.†
p. 1008.7
- Tal Toraq thought that they should march on Yunkai once they had broken through the lines; the Yellow City would be almost undefended, so the Yunkai'i would have no choice but to lift the siege and follow.†
p. 1009.2
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)