The fans excitedly besieged the escaping musicians in an attempt to get their autographs. From LearnThat.org.
BENNETT: Yes, there is, because the word besiege reentered our vocabulary before the weekend. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 21, 2009] Reference
American bishop urges Catholics to 'besiege' New York Times. From Wordnik.com. [New Orleans Saints Central] Reference
Well, then the rest of us will 'besiege' the RCC and start demanding they be held accountable for these crimes. From Wordnik.com. [New Orleans Saints Central] Reference
"besiege" Israel though boycotts, raising the price of its oppression. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
Seem'd to besiege, and make his bold waves tremble. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8] Reference
Then they would besiege him and force him to surrender. From Wordnik.com. [King Arthur and His Knights] Reference
The Sienese would besiege Orvieto and massacre its people. From Wordnik.com. [The Saracen: The Holy War] Reference
France, and now he was to besiege Nymegen and take Holland. From Wordnik.com. [The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author] Reference
Jeanne now desired to besiege and capture Paris which was held by. From Wordnik.com. [A Treasury of Heroes and Heroines A Record of High Endeavour and Strange Adventure from 500 B.C. to 1920 A.D.] Reference
Halifax, where they arrived safe, and went to besiege Louisbourg. From Wordnik.com. [Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder and Piracy A weird series of tales of shipwreck and disaster, from the earliest part of the century to the present time, with accounts of providential escapes and heart-rending fatalities.] Reference
But the children continued to besiege the farmer, all talking at once. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6] Reference
Serb forces continue to besiege the eastern Bosnian enclave of Gorazde. From Wordnik.com. [A Partition Plan For Bosnia] Reference
Go up, O Elam, besiege, O Mede: I have made all the mourning thereof to cease. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 27: Isaias The Challoner Revision] Reference
She found a tiny furnished room and set forth to besiege the editors 'offices. From Wordnik.com. [Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day] Reference
He now set forth, as admiral of the Swedish fleet, to besiege the town of Visby. From Wordnik.com. [The Swedish Revolution Under Gustavus Vasa] Reference
The Syrians besiege Samaria: the famine there causeth a woman to eat her own child. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 12: 4 Kings The Challoner Revision] Reference
At the end of February 1746, he was sent with General Stapleton to besiege Fort William. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume I.] Reference
But if they will not make peace, and shall begin war against thee, thou shalt besiege it. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 05: Deuteronomy The Challoner Revision] Reference
And Judas purposed to destroy them: and he called together all the people, to besiege them. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 45: 1 Machabees The Challoner Revision] Reference
And on the tenth day of the tenth month, because on that day the Chaldeans began to besiege. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete] Reference
His enemies might besiege him and shut him in, but they could never cut off his water supply. From Wordnik.com. [Sermons on Biblical Characters] Reference
"He also let me go because the Ghibellini from Siena are about to besiege the city," said Daoud. From Wordnik.com. [The Saracen: The Holy War] Reference
And if it will make no peace with thee, but will make war against thee, then thou shalt besiege it. From Wordnik.com. [Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject] Reference
Dandolo, the count of Blois, and Marshal Villehardouin, the historian, marched to besiege that city. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference
Having collected a large army Heracles set out for Euboea in order to besiege Oechalia, its capital. From Wordnik.com. [Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome] Reference
"We can besiege him in his southern positions ... until his troops run out of food, supplies and water.". From Wordnik.com. [Hard Days Ahead] Reference
And on the tenth day of the tenth month, because on that day the Chaldeans began to besiege Jerusalem, 4. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 43: Zacharias The Challoner Revision] Reference
Dante, in his fierce resentment, urged the Emperor to besiege the city which resisted his imperial mandates. From Wordnik.com. [Heroes of Modern Europe] Reference
Peterwardein to besiege it, but they had only their labor for their pains, for Prince Eugene drove them away. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878] Reference
"Without Me ye can do nothing," not even in the unravelling of the problems which beset and besiege the mind. From Wordnik.com. [My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year] Reference
Encouraged by this marked and signal success the Trojans now commenced to besiege the Greeks in their own camp. From Wordnik.com. [Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome] Reference
When we offer the believing prayer, God's mighty energies begin to besiege the life for which the prayer is made. From Wordnik.com. [My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year] Reference
Hungry tailors and other tradesmen also besiege the ship, swarming on board to make the most out of the new arrivals. From Wordnik.com. [Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta] Reference
The Syrians besiege Samaria: they are twice defeated by Achab: who is reprehended by a prophet for letting Benadad go. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 11: 3 Kings The Challoner Revision] Reference
No paparazzi besiege the lowly writer as he saunters along the red carpet on his way into the Golden Globes or the Oscars. From Wordnik.com. [SO YOU WANNA WRITE A SCREENPLAY?] Reference
Ptolemais, and wrote to Jonathan that he should not besiege the castle, but should come to him in haste, and speak to him. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 45: 1 Machabees The Challoner Revision] Reference
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