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Sentence Examples Flying supplies and reinforcements into the garrison, Slim mounted an overland campaign that gradually broke through to his besieged forces. At a time when the theater is besieged by phony avant-gardists from the left and vapid epigones from the right, let us give thanks for him. The mobbers sought to terrorize the laundrymen inside those besieged locales. Girls are besieged by disaffirmations in the media that encourage accessorizing over opinions. The same stronghold was besieged in 1136, when miners again attempted to demolish the walls. So, he's besieged, isolated in his compound, his forces are being pulverized. In March 1628 a Spanish army besieged its key fortress of Casale, while a Piedmontese force occupied the remainder of the duchy. The President vowed on Saturday to hold his besieged capital against rebels pressing hard from the outskirts. A businessman from Manchester fears for his relatives trapped in the besieged city. Looking pretty in pink, the newly voted Mum of the Year was besieged by the paparazzi at every turn. Paris was besieged and starved into submission and the French pleas for foreign intervention fell on deaf ears. For the entire morning and much of the afternoon, Central Security forces besieged the city centre. If it doesn't give you pause for thought, even in a world besieged by bad news, you aren't paying attention. She was besieged by vulgar and offensive propositions, her home was stalked and her work life affected by obscene callers. The union said the farmers arrested on Monday went to help a besieged neighbour, leading to violent clashes with militants occupying his land. In any account of a siege, one's sympathies inevitably lie with the besieged. I don't think I'm in the ranks of people who are besieged by the paparazzi. Minos besieged his town and his daughter Scylla cut the lock from his head and offered it to him. The besieged soldiers, using shaving mirrors, heliographed messages to their comrades based at Fort Pearson near the mouth of the river. They were besieged by opposing armies using towers, battering rams, catapults, and flame weapons. Show More Sentences Journalists besieged cashpoints and coffee shops to see if consumers would take to the euro. Japanese banks, besieged by requests to waive corporate debts, can stiffen their resolve to resist. Industry had always been besieged by insecurities and sinecurism and Department A was not the exception. Three assaults on Richmond by Grant were repelled by Lee, after which Union forces besieged the Confederate capital through the winter. The city of Lyon refused to carry out instructions from Paris and the city was besieged for two months. Finally, going over the walls of a besieged fortress generally required scaling ladders or a siege tower. As Hannibal's army ravaged the Italian countryside and besieged allied cities and towns, the Roman army followed it at a safe distance. He knew how to cut off water to besieged fortifications, and how to construct bridges, mantlets, scaling ladders, and other instruments. An early morning taxi takes us to the bus station, where I am besieged by beggars. As director he is besieged by the conflicting demands of his tours, his home repertoire and his guests. The couple were again besieged by the media when their split was announced seven years ago. During the Soviet invasion, mojahedin camped in the karez network besieged the town of Khost for almost 10 years. He has arrived with his virtually unconquerable army and besieged Jerusalem. To add salt to his wounds, he's besieged by 'journalists' interrogating him about his golden handshake and gambling habit. Westminster has been besieged over the past week by public sector workers protesting that the government was out of touch with them. We have got babies left on railway platforms, and in drains and garbage bins, and children bitten by dogs and besieged by disease and affliction. The uprising against imperial rule went on for many years until Numancia was finally besieged and burned to the ground. This time of the year we are besieged with ills and chills, and tend to feel out-of-sorts and a little run down. Ayurvedic outlets are being besieged with requests for this mixture of rice gruel and medicinal herbs. The main supermarkets were besieged with people from the moment they opened their doors yesterday. Show More Sentences The religious vision from which Attic tragedy emerged was one of the human community as a kind of besieged citadel. The city was besieged by Parliamentarian forces trying to starve the Royalists out. For months, we were besieged with exaggerations, accusations, planted stories, and outright lies. Exiting Customs, we were besieged with guides, all yelling and describing their hotels. We no longer tolerate being besieged with manipulative messages that we don't want to hear and cannot respond to. Gibraltar was besieged, in 1309, and retaken from the Moors by Alonzo de Guzman. Helpline workers were besieged with angry calls and hundreds of complaints have been posted on the pilots' own unofficial websites. The store was besieged with inquiries about it and the short supply we had dwindled and disappeared. The death knell for the royal line rang out across the besieged tower as a noticeable dent began to appear in the door of the chamber. Makeshift clinics have been besieged with thousands of victims turning up with pneumonia and diarrhoea. Every time a D-Day anniversary approaches, he is besieged with requests from journalists and researchers seeking interviews. The New York authorities have been besieged with requests for material salvaged from Ground Zero. Angry customers have besieged a postal watchdog with complaints about dumped and missing mail. So drivers are increasingly being besieged with mailshots, particularly as their policy comes up for renewal. Against all odds, they succeeded first in repulsing the original attack and then in holding the enemy at bay for almost two weeks while being besieged without re-supply. But when Lentulus with a large army besieged Spartacus, he sallied out upon him, and, joining battle, defeated his chief officers, and captured all his baggage. In November 2013 rebels released images of a DJI Phantom they claim to have brought down in the besieged city of Homs. Amid drifts of ticker tape thrown by fans, Jackson and cast members were besieged by crowds 10 deep as they made their way up the 470 metre-long red carpet to the theatre. The children, in this region, are besieged by AIDS and beset by hunger. York was at the centre of an epic battle for control of the north of England that year, after the Royalist forces in the city were besieged during the spring. Show More Sentences The town was besieged and taken, but later fell into disuse. While state security forces besieged the village and cut phone lines to prevent communication with the outside world, he sent in trucks full of hired thugs to take control. In a running battle that took a heavy toll of British soldiers' lives, the New England militia forced the redcoats back to Boston and besieged the port city. His latest comments came as he was besieged by journalists after a fringe meeting in Bournemouth, forcing him to take refuge in the party press office. His time in Lincoln gave him great pleasure, though he recalls how famine struck the area whilst he was there, and his study was besieged by beggars. The production wasn't so much beset as besieged by difficulties. This being the recognised time to give alms, I was besieged by beggars, who spread their napkins before us on the ground, sprinkled with a few coppers to excite generosity. From the day that Rupert's name was mentioned in the media, even before our address had become public, I was besieged by journalists from all over the world. Why haven't they been plagued or decimated by the problems that have besieged other teams, including those with terrific coaching and front-office staffs? Publicans have been besieged with complaints about unpleasant smells in their establishments since the ban on smoking in public places was introduced last month. I know you've been besieged with requests and we do appreciate it. With every false start on the long road to peace, economists have been besieged with calls asking whether the latest political move will prove the tonic the economy needs. In the late eighties, the television channel was besieged with complaints that its videos were too full of content inappropriate for younger kids. In 1900 the Boxers besieged the foreign legations in Beijing for two months until they were relieved by an international force which occupied and looted the capital. Every administration feels besieged at times, pilloried by the press, misunderstood by the public. I remember the days of the Bosnian war, when Saudi Arabia sent convoys of aid to those besieged in Sarajevo. Tracking back in support of his besieged full-back, Arjen Robben seemed in control as he nursed the ball towards the end-line and used his superior size to hold off Messi. The purpose was to break the stabilized situation by outflanking besieged Madrid with an Italian motorized corps from the north and then linking up with nationalist forces. The meeting in the besieged palace ended nevertheless in conciliation. From the accession of Henry II in England through Richard III, Europe was besieged by an alliance between Venice and the evil Plantagenets, especially the House of Anjou. Show More Sentences In an age when the life of the spirit is besieged by the excesses of a florid globalism, claimants to sole proprietorship of truth have never been more numerous. During this uprising, known as the Pueblo Revolt, the Indians took the lives of Franciscan priests and Spanish soldiers and then besieged Santa Fe for several days. The Trojans are besieged and they fight gallantly to hold their walls. While the first recorded catapulting of plague victims' bodies into a besieged city is by the Mongols, Mayor reveals that the ancients also made use of primitive germ warfare. The first round failed to achieve any progress even on ancillary issues, such as humanitarian access to the besieged city of Homs. The people in charge of the convoys distributed the hejab to the besieged women along with the cartons of food. And late Friday night there were more strikes on outlying areas of the besieged city now mostly empty of civilians. During the ensuing years, Mandelbaum was besieged by a series of illnesses. And the Ukrainian army, slowly, uncertainly, but ineluctably, is closing in on this besieged ghost-town of a city. There was carol White, a ho-hum homemaker who finds herself besieged by multiple chemical sensitivity in Safe. When her fort was under siege by the British, the rani escaped from the besieged fort in disguise, reminiscent of Shivaji's escape from Aurangzeb's imprisonment. The next time Carlisle was besieged, in 1315, Robert the Bruce would be leading the attack. In September 1507, Torquil MacLeod was besieged at Stornoway Castle on Lewis. The French besieged the castle and forced the surrender of the garrison on 31 July. The Britons are immediately besieged by attacks from Picts, Scots and Danes. Critics said Gladstone had neglected military affairs and had not acted promptly enough to save the besieged Gordon. The Jacobites besieged Derry from December 1688 to July 1689, ending when a Williamite army from Britain relieved the city. It is the most besieged place in the British Isles, having been besieged at least ten times, and has garrisoned troops for most of its history. The castle was occupied, besieged and stormed during The Rough Wooing and was severely damaged in the process. Lack of food would force the disbandment of any large Welsh force besieged within the mountains. Show More Sentences During the Peasants' Revolt of 1381 the Tower of London was besieged with the King inside. In April, Castell y Bere was besieged by over 3,000 men, and the small Welsh garrison, commanded by Cynfrig ap Madog, surrendered on 25 April. The new fortifications were first tested in October 1191, when the Tower was besieged for the first time in its history. It was besieged several times, and controlling it has been important to controlling the country. The next ten years were the busiest of Stephenson's life as he was besieged with requests from railway promoters. Prince Edward also took part in the 1303 campaign during which he besieged Brechin Castle, deploying his own siege engine in the operation. Criccieth Castle was besieged by Madog's forces for several months, as was Harlech. The Cornish quickly joined the men of Devon in the Prayer Book Rebellion and Exeter was besieged until relieved by Lord Russell. When the besieged garrison of Kaunas surrendered in 1915, 20,000 Russians became prisoners. In 1497, early in Henry VII's reign, the Royal pretender Perkin Warbeck, besieged Exeter. In 1138, King Stephen successfully besieged the castle held by William FitzAlan for the Empress Maud during the period known as the Anarchy. He reconquered Aden, Taiz, and Ibb, and besieged Shibam Kawkaban in 1570 for 7 months. Here he was trapped and besieged until January 1295, supplied only by sea, before forces arrived to relieve him in February. Harlech was also besieged but was saved from defeat by the arrival of supplies by sea from Ireland. Or as Joey, the sleazy, besieged used car salesman in Cadillac Man. In 1403 and 1404, Caernarfon was besieged again by Welsh troops with support from French forces, but withstood the attacks. The event occurred in November 1866, as a large Ottoman force besieged the Arkadi Monastery, which served as the headquarters of the rebellion. In 1378, the city was besieged by Charles V as the rest of the Norman possessions of the King of Navarre, but in vain. On 12 August 1415, Henry sailed for France, where his forces besieged the fortress at Harfleur, capturing it on 22 September. When Philip besieged Aumale in Normandy, Richard grew tired of waiting and seized the manor, although the act was opposed by the Church. Show More Sentences War continually raged during 1195, when Philip once again besieged Verneuil. When coastal cities or fortresses were besieged from the landward side, the besiegers would often blockade the seaward side as well. Several of the thieves were caught after the police besieged and eventually stormed the safe room where they had holed up. The city refused to surrender, and Henry besieged it, burning it to the ground. In 1130 the King of Aragon Alfonso the Battler besieged the city without success. His wife, Lady Mary Bankes, led the defence of the castle when it was twice besieged by Parliamentarian forces. They hanged the Roman soldiers collecting the tax and forced the governor to flee to a Roman fort, which they then besieged. In under a month, Commonwealth forces were pushed back into Egypt with the exception of the besieged port of Tobruk. As they approached the besieged Roman camp, the Belgae moved to engage Caesar's troops. The Bastarnae easily beat off the attackers, chased them back to their chief town, and besieged them. In 105, Trajan crossed the Danube river and besieged Decebalus' capital, Sarmizegetusa, but the siege failed because of Decebalus' allied tribes. Decimus Brutus refused to give up Cisalpine Gaul, so Antony besieged him at Mutina. The armies of Mucianus were nearing Rome but the besieged Flavian party did not hold out for longer than a day. In 402, the city was besieged by the Goths and the Imperial residence was moved to Ravenna. After the city was besieged by the Visigoths in 402, the imperial residence was moved to Ravenna. Negotiations with Honorius broke down, and Alaric deposed Attalus in the summer of 410, and besieged Rome for the third time. But even these exceptional instances show that Rome was not entirely spared the horrors which usually accompany the storming of a besieged city. Odoacer again was defeated and forced back into Ravenna, where Theoderic besieged him. Lower Normandy was quickly conquered, and Rouen was cut off from Paris and besieged. The invading Muslims besieged Toulouse, then Aquitaine's most important city. Show More Sentences Charlemagne and his uncle Bernard crossed the Alps in 773 and chased the Lombards back to Pavia, which they then besieged. In reaction, on 19 August the Prussian general Duke of Brunswick invaded France and besieged Longwy. The Duchy of Normandy was created for the Viking leader Rollo after he had besieged Paris. Charles, meanwhile, decided to send an expeditionary force to relieve the French Huguenots whom French royal troops held besieged in La Rochelle. Edward besieged the city for five weeks, but the defences held and there was no coronation. From July to August, Henry's forces besieged and captured Dreux, thus relieving allied forces at Chartres. Leopoldo, an ordinary Roman salaryman, leaves his comfortable bourgeois apartment to be unaccountably besieged by screaming paparazzi. In 1644, during the Civil War, the Parliamentarians besieged York, and many medieval houses outside the city walls were lost. The Mongols besieged the city for ten days, which surrendered between December 30, 1299, and January 6, 1300, though its Citadel resisted. In 1222, Yaroslav, finally enthroned in Novgorod, overran all of Estonia and besieged its capital Kolyvan. Ricimer then quarreled with Anthemius, and besieged him in Rome, which surrendered in July 472 after more months of starvation. Kublai besieged Xiangyang between 1268 and 1273, the last obstacle in his way to capture the rich Yangzi River basin. The first group of civilians besieged in the old city has been allowed out of the city towards Deek al-Jinn area, the news agency said Friday. The castellan of York, Robert fitzRichard, was defeated and killed, and the rebels besieged the Norman castle at York. The Carthaginians were obliged to withdraw within their walls and were besieged. He was besieged by Umayyads in 774, but the revolt near Seville forced the besieging troops to withdraw. In 1147, as part of the Reconquista, crusader knights led by Afonso I of Portugal besieged and conquered Lisbon. He besieged and captured Melun in November, returning to England shortly thereafter. He engaged the Portuguese armada which had been sent from Goa to offer armed relief to the besieged port. In 1574, Manila was temporarily besieged by the Chinese pirate Lim Hong, who was ultimately thwarted by the local inhabitants. Show More Sentences William's next efforts were against Guy of Burgundy, who retreated to his castle at Brionne, which William besieged. In August 1536, rebel Inca troops led by Manco Inca Yupanqui besieged the city but were defeated by the Spaniards and their native allies. But instead the foreigners and many Chinese were besieged in the foreign legations quarter. William returned to England in December 1067 and marched on Exeter, which he besieged. Alaric the Visigoth included 3,000 pounds of pepper as part of the ransom he demanded from Rome when he besieged the city in 5th century. Norwich was besieged and surrendered, with the garrison allowed to go to Brittany. A company of Australians and a British warship besieged the Germans and their colonial subjects, ending with a German surrender. The Confederates besieged Chattanooga during the Chattanooga Campaign in early fall 1863, but were driven off by Grant in November. The besieged endured three weeks of the Siege of Cawnpore with little water or food, suffering continuous casualties to men, women and children. The barons besieged Northampton Castle in protest at King John's oppression of his subjects. After three weeks, the besieged forces sallied from the castle and managed to take the besiegers by surprise. In 1636, during the Thirty Years' War, the city was besieged by Imperial forces under Johann von Werth from April to July. In September 1813 Fort Madison was abandoned after it was attacked and besieged by natives, who had support from the British. Their ranks include rare medicinal plants such as goldenseal and ginseng, as well as plants that favor besieged coastal habitats. Paris was besieged and the Loire Valley devastated during the 10th century. The justiciars pushed him and his forces back to the castles of Tickhill and Windsor, which were besieged. Sigismund advised the Crusaders to focus on defence when they reached the Danube, but they besieged the city of Nicopolis. The Danish army encircled and besieged London, but Edmund was able to escape and raised an army of loyalists. Leopold and John of Brienne besieged and captured Damietta but an army advancing into Egypt was compelled to surrender. The Normans fled to a military encampment at nearby Carrick, where they were besieged. Show More Sentences In 1645, during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, Dundee was again besieged, this time by the Royalist Marquess of Montrose. Later that summer, the Russians under Field Marshal Stepan Fyodorovich Apraksin besieged Memel with 75,000 troops. This Allied campaign led to a significant reduction in supplies flowing to the besieged Russian troops at Sevastopol. He built a story around the idea of walking a tightrope while besieged by monkeys, and turned the Tramp into the accidental star of a circus. In 1506 the Earl of Huntly besieged and captured Stornoway Castle using cannon. The gigantic world, split into massive and distinct explorable areas is besieged by dragons, torn apart by political turmoil and ravaged by war. For 872 days, the German army, aided indirectly by Finnish forces, besieged Leningrad, the USSR's second largest city. In early May, it was besieged by a contingent of Jacobites led by MacDonell of Keppoch. According to later medieval tradition, the three brothers were in Edinburgh when they were besieged by their paternal uncle Donald. Next day, Sir William awoke to find his castle besieged by Moray, who demanded its surrender. While Kublai's force besieged Wuchang, Uryankhadai joined him. The ceremony was also overshadowed by a major Chechen rebel offensive, leaving thousands of soldiers besieged in Grozny, capital of the rebel republic. But, although Bran's towers and turrets looks the part, it was only besieged by Vlad the Impaler, the inspiration for Count Dracula, in the early 15th century. The film details how 183 Texans and Tejanos, led by Colonel William Travis, were besieged in San Antonio by a 2000-strong Mexican army led by General Santa Ana. In 1068 William besieged rebels in Exeter, including Harold's mother Gytha, and after suffering heavy losses managed to negotiate the town's surrender. Norwich was besieged and surrendered, and Ralph went into exile. To draw Stephen's forces away from Wallingford, Henry besieged Stephen's castle at Malmesbury, and the King responded by marching west with an army to relieve it. Offaly had the Archbishop of Dublin murdered, and besieged Dublin. In the Midlands, a Parliamentary force under Sir John Gell besieged and captured the cathedral city of Lichfield, after the death of the original commander, Lord Brooke. While one French army approached from the north, the Austrians were busy with another stationed in Genoa, which was besieged by a substantial force. Show More Sentences In August 1942, the Allies succeeded in repelling a second attack against El Alamein and, at a high cost, managed to deliver desperately needed supplies to the besieged Malta. It was besieged by Richard and, after a sharp conflict, was captured. In the English Civil War the city was besieged and fell to the forces of Cromwell in 1644, but Thomas Fairfax prevented any further damage to the cathedral. The castle was once again besieged in 1460, this time by a Yorkist force. Byron initially stayed on the island of Kephalonia, where he was besieged by agents of the rival Greek factions, all of whom wanted to recruit Byron to their own cause. In 638, the Gododdin stronghold was besieged by forces loyal to King Oswald of Northumbria, and around this time control of Lothian passed to the Angles. They were then besieged by a much larger force of Irish and Norse. Thus, Major General Vijay Kumar Jetley, Commander of UNAMSIL, was allowed to continue negotiations for the release of the other besieged UNAMSIL contingents. This angered Hulagu, and, consistent with Mongol strategy of discouraging resistance, he besieged Baghdad, sacked the city and massacred many of the inhabitants. Militia forces then besieged Boston, forcing a British evacuation in March 1776, and Congress appointed George Washington to command the Continental Army. Charles VIII of France besieged Rennes and had the marriage cancelled. Later in 1212, Robert de Vieuxpont was besieged in the castle by the coalition forces of Gwenwynwyn and Llywelyn the Great, he was rescued by King John. Despite its dilapidated condition, during the English Civil War Caernarfon Castle was held by Royalists, and was besieged three times by Parliamentarian forces. The town and castle were besieged in 1401, and in November that year the Battle of Tuthill took place nearby between Caernarfon's defenders and the besieging force. Edward was besieged at Conwy by the Welsh between December and January 1295, supplied only by sea, before forces arrived to relieve him in February. Morlais castle was captured under the aegis of Morgan in the south, and Cynan ap Maredudd besieged the castle at Builth for a period of six weeks. Many other castles across Wales were besieged and several towns burnt. The Welsh besieged it in 1069, but were repelled by William the Conqueror. Caernarfon was besieged in 1401, and that November the Battle of Tuthill took place nearby between Caernarfon's defenders and the besieging force. Armorica is featured extensively in Bernard Cornwell's novel The Winter King where Ynys Trebes, later Mont Saint Michel is besieged and destroyed by the Franks. Show More Sentences In 911 a group of Vikings led by Rollo besieged Paris and Chartres. Rosecrans retreated to Chattanooga, which Bragg then besieged. He received an appeal to rescue Segestes, who was besieged by Arminius. The Frisians held off Charles, while the king and his mayor besieged Plectrude at Cologne, where she bought them off with a substantial portion of Pepin's treasure. However, Louis of Aquitaine marched the entire army of his kingdom over the Pyrenees and besieged it for two years, wintering there from 800 to 801, when it capitulated. In 968, the Pechenegs attacked and besieged the city of Kiev. In 1424 Henry and Fernando de Castro besieged the Canary Islands, under the impression that they might be of use to further Portuguese expeditions around Africa's coast. He was surrounded by the Romans and besieged, and came to an agreement that they would surrender if they were given land and his starving forces given food. The conflict was named the War of Chioggia because the Venetians, after an initial success, were defeated in Pula by the Genoese, who occupied Chioggia and besieged Venice. But in the first years of the following century, under the rule of Gabriello Maria Visconti, the city of Pisa was besieged by Milan, Florence, Genoa and France. The Mongol army that besieged Xiangyang did have foreign military engineers, but they were mentioned in Chinese sources as being from Baghdad and had Arabic names. Carthage was almost defenceless, and submitted when besieged. Before Mongols left besieged Crimean Kaffa the dead or dying bodies of the infected soldiers were loaded onto catapults and launched over Kaffa's walls to infect those inside. The besieged Uruguayans called on resident foreigners for help, which led to a French and an Italian legion being formed, the latter led by the exiled Giuseppe Garibaldi. In 1740, the town was again besieged, this time by the governor of the British colony of Georgia, General James Oglethorpe, who was also unable to take the fort. In 1453, Mehmed the Conqueror besieged the capital of the Byzantine Empire, resulting in the Fall of Constantinople after 1,500 years of Roman rule. That day Papal troops besieged the city while the Florentines, with contempt of the enemies, decided to play the game notwithstanding the situation. The city of Hangzhou was besieged and captured by the advancing Mongol armies of Kublai Khan in 1276, three years before the final collapse of the empire. Although the Meng and Shu families unsuccessfully besieged Hou, a loyalist official rose up with the people of Hou and forced Hou Fan to flee to the Qi state. The Parliamentarians retreated to Bradford and the Royalists set up headquarters at Bolling Hall from where the town was besieged leading to its surrender. Show More Sentences A MIDLAND security company tried to sell electrified razor wire to Libyan dictator Colonel Gaddafi at an arms fair in his besieged country only three months ago. Dr Fakri Seyed, 32, her husband Amad, 33, and their four-year-old son Daniel hid in their bedroom as bees besieged their bungalow in Worthing, West Sussex. Jalloud joined the daily exodus of hundreds of Tripolitanians out of the besieged capital and declared he would support the uprising against the dictator. Inside Syria, she said that the WFP has been prevented access from some areas that have been either besieged or submersed in conflict for months now. Examples from Classical Literature The military posts were everywhere besieged, and sana, the capital, was cut off from all communication with the coast. To these engines the besieged opposed the first trebuchet, and another mounted in the barbican. By tapping the unweighted end of the ruler smartly the rock could be made to fly over into the midst of the besieged city. The army of Pegu at length besieged the city of odia, in which the king of Siam resided. They besieged and captured the place after defeating the greatest force that Parthia could bring into the field against them. These strangers were the inhabitants of Phocaea, that had fled from their town when it was besieged by Cyrus king of Persia. The prost departed, leaving the frightened household fluttering behind him, like poultry besieged by a fox. But the greatest loss of the besieged was that of the counterscarp and ravelin. Reval, also besieged, turned to the King of Denmark for aid against its foes. The hotel of the foreign minister at Paris was besieged with princes and their envoys. He was besieged in Akkad, but a successful sally drove back the rebels, and they were soon utterly crushed. He was besieged in Bayamo, and had to stay there until 10,000 soldiers were sent to escort him home. But Belisarius, as he besieged the Neapolitans both by land and by sea, was beginning to be vexed. They were besieged, but in no danger for the time of a closer acquaintance with the besieger. It was quite as great an advantage to the besiegers as it was to the besieged. Its a blue-ribbon place or Moretense wouldnt have besieged Miss Remson to let her in here. In 1796 Derbent was besieged by the Russians, and in 1813 incorporated with the Russian empire. The rebels had quitted the besieged window and were scampering towards the gate. For three days they besieged Ivan with expostulation, incredulity, persuasion. Zelaya captured Tegucigalpa after severe fighting, and besieged Bonilla in Amapala. Show More Sentences The siege of Thasos still continued, and the besieged took the precaution to send to Sparta for assistance. The English had been closely besieged in Lucknow since the last day of May. Also, it seemed to him that the fort was besieged by wolves. Next morning, under cover of a thick fog, we besieged the city. About 400 years before the time of Christ, ancient Rome was being besieged by the Gauls and the citizens were sheltering in the Capitol. Gradually a feeling of security came over the besieged town. Morrison's hotel, where he had engaged rooms, was besieged by callers. Wherefore the besieged also pastured their horses in those places. He advanced as far as Patna, which he besieged with 40,000 men. The towns of dol and Rennes are next passed, and Dinan is besieged. In the scattered situations where shops appear, those shops are not besieged by the crowds of more populous thoroughfares. He arrived at Suindinum while the town was besieged and deprived of water. The prowess of women has often been conspicuous in besieged cities. For the ravelin proved a sufficient protection for the besieged. Finally, they settled upon a Circe less besieged of the hoarse and grunting mob. It is a fortress that well besieged may capitulate like any other. Nelaton, the Tuileries surgeon, demanded a safe conduct, in the name of science, into the besieged city in order to attend my wounds. Here both platforms were besieged with demonstrative crowds. Again she was besieged by eager questioners, and again she swam in sunset seas of glory. He was in command of a brigade at Oporto when that city was besieged. Show More Sentences His house was daily besieged by beaux and belles of quality. They frequently, in time of war, undertook military expeditions against Acadia and Canada, and sometimes besieged the fortresses by which those territories were defended. To all these sports and pursuits, those of the enemy who watched the besieged, and the besieged themselves, were, however, merely the idle though sympathizing spectators. Find more words! 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