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1. During the Dark Age when our seas were under siege from pirates and pillagers, our people would look with absolute confidence to their goddess Athena and believe she would vanquish the pirates and deliver their village from intruders
2. 5 She will be killed in the siege!
3. often but were strong and tough enough to withstand a siege when
4. razed by siege and rebuilt within a week
5. 15Then the king of the North will come and build up siege ramps and
6. Because of the silence, they assumed everyone beyond the city avoided Lock Core because it was under siege, or they were already dead and infected
7. For the most part, the courtyard was now vacant, the gardeners having rounded up most of the wildlife, as well as any edible plant life, to be immediately delivered to the kitchen, prepped for storage and added to the keep's list of supplies in anticipation of a lengthy siege
8. “You mean those who survived the siege? And that has you excited?” he asked, raising an eyebrow
9. “Thousands died due to famine and lack of water,” she continued, “because your army had our city under siege
10. The port town of Liverpool was under siege
11. From the time of the siege of Veii, the armies of Rome received pay for their service during the time which they remained in the field
12. laid siege to it
13. The last report I received stated that he had closed his city gates to keep out the peasant armies and that the city was effectively under siege
14. The siege had actually begun at the battle of Wilderness in
15. The farmer armies there had laid siege to the capital after Lord and Lady Aravon managed to escape with a force of one thousand cavalry
16. They stopped their assault and started a siege of the alien army
17. Siege had to be laid to a considerable city, well garrisoned, naturally entrenched with steep ridges, and with a powerful fleet to assist in its defence
18. Owing to the unaccountable delay in road-making during the dry days and the subsequent employment of improper measures in repairing washouts and ruts with brushwood and sand, to withstand the periodic downpours, even the light mortars could not be brought to the front before July 9th, and not one of the siege guns was landed
19. Despite these reinforcements, Toral, that afternoon, sent out a defiant letter to Shafter, stating that he could sustain a long siege, and reiterated his refusal to surrender, save with a safe conduct for his army with full honours
20. Therefore, when thousands of white farmers laid siege to Pretoria in early 1991, we were not as tough on them as what we could have been and would have been before 1990
21. I wonder today if the growth in militancy of the far right-wing did not gain momentum from that siege, when they realised we were shackled and not about to deal with them as harshly as we dealt with black protesters in the past
22. The flaunting arrogance of today‘s teachers, themselves victims of social engineering a generation ago, is presently under siege by a new generation of (thoughtful) students who, armed with their own (ideological) arsenal of values, may not be such willing accomplices as their parents
23. In late January 1943, after a five-month siege, Stalingrad was liberated and the German army was defeated
24. For instance after the Iranian Embassy siege in London (1980) the weapons used during the attack were handed over to Scotland Yard and the operation treated as a crime scene
25. A classic example is the Iranian Embassy siege in London (1980) with demands to have time on the BBC
26. FBI Director Louis Freeh, who jointly ran the siege with Reno
27. The siege that followed lasted seven weeks, making headlines worldwide, with live television coverage
28. He also had little involvement in the day to day siege, leaving that to agents on the scene and their supervisors
29. But Clinton did approve the final assault in the siege, kept Reno in spite of her deadly incompetence, and defended her actions and his own afterward
30. In any case, there was no evidence of any abuse of children going on during the siege
31. If still begun, it should have been planned far better, should have had a better administration than Janet Reno's, and authorities should not have chosen to end the siege so forcefully, especially with a group that had such apocalyptic beliefs and an erratic leader
32. Many doctors and other clinic workers live under siege, often having to use survival tactics not so different from politicians fearing assassination such as wearing bullet proof vests, checking for bombs in their mail, and constantly altering their travel routes
33. Just the other day, he remembered, he had received a notice of an annulled material request for a shipment of chisels required for the maintenance and construction of most of the siege engines
34. It seemed the ministry was contemplating whether or not a military coup could put chisels to good use, in preference to the usual swords, scimitars, bows, steamers, slingshots, siege engines and the good old knives it already possessed
35. Fires from the siege engines of the Army
36. They could hear the distant cries of procrastinators and the thuds of impacts from the siege engines
37. It seemed large enough for a siege engine of the army to pass through, almost three stories high
38. In the far distance where the siege engine battalion was arrayed, an answering wave of flags could be seen shortly thereafter
39. The siege crossbow was used to pull down siege towers to prevent an enemy from winning to
40. A city under siege, without walls or trenches, nothing but the river as a moat
41. And she didn’t have Oriental eyes but the eyes of a Gaul from a tribe that had seen slaughter on the battlefield in a war with the Moors, the eyes of a tribe that had waited behind the battlements of a castle under siege, the eyes of a tribe that was soon going to die from hunger, the eyes of a tribe that had gone on to achieve the ultimate in civilization and art under the Sun King, the eyes of a tribe whose spirituality and faith and craftsmanship and endeavor and ability had built the Notre Dame, the eyes of a tribe who had spawned Francois Villon, Joan of Arc, Flaubert, and Balzac and Mallarme and Chateau Briand and Baudelaire and
42. his friend in the siege and straightness, wherewith their enemies, and
43. belonged to the Philistines; for Nadab and all Israel laid siege to Gibbethon
44. The siege of Leningrad lasted 900 days and caused 1
45. The Mexicans placed a siege on Fort Texas, which they claimed had been built in Mexican Texas
46. 3 And I will camp against you round about, and will lay siege
47. Two days into the siege, our auxiliaries finally began to file in, somewhat burdened by booty from their conquest
48. flesh of his friend in the siege and straightness, with which their enemies, and those who seek their lives, shall straiten them
49. be besieged, and you shall lay siege against it
50. 7 Therefore you shall set your face toward the siege of
1. “robadoquines,” small guns mounted in banks on carts; “culebrinas,” huge cannon used in sieges; and others called “pasabolantes” and “cerbotinas
2. Most of the battles with the Moros had been sieges with artillery bombardment and hand-to-hand combat
3. 24 And they proved to be to him noble and brave for land battles and for sieges; and he conquered and
4. 24 And they proved to be to him noble and brave for land battles and for sieges; and he conquered and stormed the towns of all his enemies
5. Since their single-minded sieges my race has adopted a contemplative lifestyle
6. But from what I hear about the outside, the war that never ends, plagues, sieges, violence…the population is at 50% and has no sign of growing…maybe it is best to be kept
7. He remembered the stories his uncle told him about keep and tower sieges and the bloody room-to-room combat that entailed once the door came down, and he wanted to be ready
8. that were supposed to have built Ictis, the sieges during the civil
9. The wall had stood up to multiple halfhearted sieges over the last century and it was still holding up well to the heavy assault it was under now, but like all man-made structures it couldn’t last indefinitely
10. The military sieges, the ogres
11. Marie-Laure thinks of Harold Bazin’s stories: lugubrious monsters made of sea foam, mermaids with fishy private parts, the romance of English sieges
12. That means they couldn’t stand any lengthy sieges the way their garrison at Talisman Island can
13. “A siege! Name of God, a siege! I’ve heard about sieges! Pa was in one or maybe it was his Pa, and Pa told me—”
14. D—— , which had sustained sieges during the wars of religion, was still surrounded in 1815 by ancient walls flanked by square towers which have been demolished since
1. The Anduains pounded the door from the outside, sieging the tower as the first step in an apparent full-scale invasion