All 8 Uses
siege
in
All the Light We Cannot See
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- For three thousand years, this little promontory has known sieges.†
p. 11.4 *
- Marie-Laure thinks of Hubert Bazin's stories: lugubrious monsters made of sea foam, mermaids with fishy private parts, the romance of English sieges.†
p. 273.4
- On the third afternoon of the siege of Saint-Malo, the shelling lulls, as though all the artillerymen abruptly fell asleep at their guns.†
p. 375.1
- Burn his way out of this citadel, out of this siege, out of this disease.†
p. 383.3
- The siege, it seems, will never end.†
p. 452.3
- The colonel in his underground fortress across the river holds out for three more days, until an American airplane called a Lightning drops a tank of napalm through an air vent, one shot in a million, and five minutes later, a white sheet comes up on a pole and the siege of Saint-Malo is over.†
p. 478.5
- She has read about the siege; she has studied photos of the old town before the war.†
p. 508.6
- Sixteen during the siege.†
p. 515.4
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)