...Othersset fire to their own villages to drive our foragers out of them, and togive them up to the Cossacks, whom they had previously summoned, and whokept us there in a state of siege...
George Grote 「The Two Great Retreats of History」
...Nobody could remain in doubt, after such precautions, as to whether he had or had not witnessed the siege of Paris...
Vicente Blasco Ibanez Charlotte Brewster Jordan 「The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse」
...Preparations were then immediately made for the siege ofthe castle...
Antonio de Trueba Henry J. Gill 「The Cid Campeador」
...Don Sancho then hastened tocommence the siege, which, from the first day, was prosecutedwith great ardour...
Antonio de Trueba Henry J. Gill 「The Cid Campeador」
...I expressed my wonder how, with the Highlands covered with troops, and guarded like a city in a siege, a man in his situation could come and go without arrest...
Robert Louis Stevenson 「Kidnapped」
... “Monseigneur, comprehending the bad effect of this position on the siege artillery, commanded the frigates moored in the little road to commence a regular fire against the place...
Alexandre Dumas, Pere 「The Man in the Iron Mask」
...Our land forces laid siege to the town of Louisbourgh, while theFrench men of war were blocked up in the harbour by the fleet, thebatteries at the same time playing upon them from the land...
Olaudah Equiano 「The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African」
...A fortnight previously a revolution was impending and a siege was looming ahead...
Lady Sarah Wilson 「South African Memories」
...Wiel's house, and had hardly reached it when "Creechy" (a Dutch pet-name which had been given to the big siege gun) sent a parting salute, and her shell whizzed defiantly over our heads...
Lady Sarah Wilson 「South African Memories」
...The most formidable weapon of the Boers was, naturally, the big siege Creusot gun...
Lady Sarah Wilson 「South African Memories」
...Fortunately, the supply of liquid fuel was very large, and it would have taken the place of coal if the siege had been indefinitely prolonged...
Lady Sarah Wilson 「South African Memories」
...During the whole siege the Sunday afternoon sports on the parade-ground were a most popular institution; when it was wet, amusing concerts were given instead at the Masonic Hall...
Lady Sarah Wilson 「South African Memories」
...The siege lasted threemonths, till the two brothers of Zombé, before-mentioned, came, and thena complete rout ensued...
David Livingstone 「The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume II (of 2), 1869-1873」
...But, I say, I wonder whether these beasts are going to lay siege to us all night...
W.H.G. Kingston 「The Two Supercargoes」
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