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besiegers
1. one, than the besiegers would become the besieged
2. When we neared the camp of the besiegers, Gonzalo had the drummers beat the cadence, and dressing the ranks smartly, he marched them up in perfect order
3. man, when his pious soul was tried with the fiery trial of tortures and rackings, move his besiegers through the religious reasoning
4. 4 Not so has ever a city when besieged held out against many and various machines as did that holy man when his pious soul was tried with the fiery trial of tortures and rackings move his besiegers through the religious reasoning that shielded him
5. The pavilions of the besiegers dotted the plain
6. The defenders of Shamar had made a desperate sortie, cut down the men masking the gates, and were raging among the tents of the besiegers, cutting down the camp followers, burning the pavilions, and destroying the siege engines
7. Two little spotless flags were abroad, the one on a salient angle of the fort, and the other on the advanced battery of the besiegers; emblems of the truth which existed, not only to the acts, but it would seem, also, to the enmity of the combatants
8. They had proceeded only a hundred yards from the works, when the little array which attended the French general to the conference was seen issuing from the hollow way which formed the bed of a brook that ran between the batteries of the besiegers and the fort
9. The defenders in those positions were so stunned—physically, not simply mentally—by the stupendous force of the explosion and the almost equally sudden bombardment that the attackers had crossed the no-man’s-land between besiegers and besieged and climbed the heights before Nybar’s men could even consider any sort of organized response
10. Also they would be able to reopen and guard some other gate, so that the besiegers would have to encircle the whole mountain; and for that they had not sufficient numbers
11. The knowledge that the Arkenstone was in the hands of the besiegers burned in their thoughts; also they guessed the hesitation of Bard and his friends, and resolved to strike while they debated
12. Mauh®r had apparently arrived and was attacking the besiegers
13. The mattress had, in fact, fallen outside the barricade, between besiegers and besieged
14. The assault was so furious, that for one moment, it was inundated with assailants; but it shook off the soldiers as the lion shakes off the dogs, and it was only covered with besiegers as the cliff is covered with foam, to re-appear, a moment later, beetling, black and formidable
15. " Nothing was lacking in the capture by assault of the Hucheloup wine-shop; neither paving-stones raining from the windows and the roof on the besiegers and exasperating the soldiers by crushing them horribly, nor shots fired from the attic-windows and the cellar, nor the fury of attack, nor, finally, when the door yielded, the frenzied madness of extermination
16. The musketry of the besiegers, though confined and embarrassed by being directed from below upwards, was deadly
17. The inmates had to stand a regular siege and drive away their assailants by a sortie, or rather by a series of sorties, for the place of those who were repulsed would be taken by other besiegers stronger and more resolute
18. We are eight men—the walls of the castle are strong—the besiegers have no guns, and no place to protect them; we may hold out for days until assistance comes from Kolozsvar
19. Meanwhile Barnabas had hurried to the attic, where several large fragments of iron had been stowed away, and dragging them to a window which overlooked the entrance, he waited until the gang had assembled round the door, and were trying to break in; when lifting an enormous piece with gigantic strength, he dropped it on the heads of the besiegers
20. The besiegers had lost a great number, and began to fall back, after fruitless efforts to break in the door, when a footman entered breathless to inform Barnabas that the Wallachians were beginning to scale the opposite side of the castle with ladders, and that the servants were unable to resist them
21. At last the voices died away, and the hideous cries of the besiegers ceased