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siege
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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

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