1 Truths which he did not wish to recognize were besieging him, inexorably.
2 At the denunciating sound, the monks would be rendered aware that temptation was besieging a brother, and all the community would go to prayers.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 16 IN WHICH M. SEGUIER, KEEPER OF THE SEALS, LOOKS MORE THAN ONCE FOR THE BELL 3 Henry IV, when besieging Paris, had loaves and provisions thrown over the walls.
4 For of conspiracies which have for their object the surrender of cities to enemies who are besieging them, and of all others contrived for like ends, I have already said enough.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI. 5 And from this time he began to seek new alliances and to temporize with France in the expedition which she was making towards the kingdom of Naples against the Spaniards who were besieging Gaeta.
The Prince By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In CHAPTER VII — CONCERNING NEW PRINCIPALITIES WHICH ARE ACQ... 6 True, the Yankees under Grant had been besieging Vicksburg since the middle of May.
7 The ladies always felt a little odd when they besieged him with questions about styles, but they did it nevertheless.
8 But now with the ports closed and many of the port cities captured or besieged, the South's salvation depended upon itself.
9 All day long the gates of the packing houses were besieged by starving and penniless men; they came, literally, by the thousands every single morning, fighting with each other for a chance for life.
10 Not so, however, with the besieged.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 15 11 Against this assault, the besieged could only oppose the imperfect and hasty preparations of a fortress in the wilderness.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 15 12 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.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 15 13 At length I became the property of an Aga of the Janissaries, who was soon ordered away to the defence of Azof, then besieged by the Russians.
14 Even in those cities which seem to enjoy peace, and where the arts flourish, the inhabitants are devoured by more envy, care, and uneasiness than are experienced by a besieged town.
15 The staircase has two stories; the English, besieged on the staircase, and massed on its upper steps, had cut off the lower steps.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—HOUGOMONT