Three times, too, the besieger has appeared before. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 69, July, 1863] Reference
And where de besieger is resolved to die before de place. From Wordnik.com. [The Beaux-Stratagem] Reference
The besieger chose that moment to start up the next round. From Wordnik.com. [Moonheart]
Strengthen thy fortifications and exhaust the cunning of thy besieger. From Wordnik.com. [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference
The constancy of the besieged has also often displeased and dismayed the besieger. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of War] Reference
(One besieger is felled by a tome titled "Projet de Fraternisation avec les Bedouins"). From Wordnik.com. [Napoleon on Madison] Reference
Shall I add that her besieger, D'Aulney, died soon after, leaving a bereaved but blooming widow?. From Wordnik.com. [Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses] Reference
In the space of a year, Hook has gone from the besieged to the besieger, from the defender to the attacker. From Wordnik.com. [Victory by Longbow] Reference
In Sanction, besieger and besieged alike abandoned the ongo - ing struggle to seek refuge from the terrible storm. From Wordnik.com. [Dragons of a Fallen Sun]
Every besieger promises the commoners that his only enemy is the aristocrat in the citadel: such a maneuver weakens enemy will to resist. From Wordnik.com. [New Dan Simmons Story] Reference
How was he to be rescued from his fierce besieger?. From Wordnik.com. [The Plant Hunters Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains] Reference
Jurgis became once more a besieger of factory gates. From Wordnik.com. [The Jungle] Reference
Cold and famine and death it flaunted in the face of the besieger. From Wordnik.com. [Gala-days] Reference
Twice there were skirmishes between besieger and besieged -- once when. From Wordnik.com. [The Madigans] Reference
Paris he has half promised the besieger not to say anything about her past. From Wordnik.com. [In a Steamer Chair and Other Stories] Reference
He, in fact, drove the besieger away from the town, and entered it himself in triumph. From Wordnik.com. [History of King Charles the Second of England] Reference
It is Ocean, usurper of Earth's deepest vales, besieger of islands, batterer of continents. From Wordnik.com. [The Masque of the Elements] Reference
They were besieged, but in no danger for the time of a closer acquaintance with the besieger. From Wordnik.com. [The Giraffe Hunters] Reference
The spirit of a Crusader, half-heaven, half-earth, fired the gentle breast of the besieger till. From Wordnik.com. [Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868)] Reference
They might now have stolen away unknown to the besieger; but they had no longer the desire to do so. From Wordnik.com. [The Giraffe Hunters] Reference
Without this fire the role would have been changed and from besieger he would probably have become besieged. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the War of Secession] Reference
The besieger thereupon enters and, in perfect quiet, consumes a prey incapable of the least muscular effort. From Wordnik.com. [The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles] Reference
Ralph looked forward to a fourth, a fifth, a tenth besieger; he had no conviction she would stop at a third. From Wordnik.com. [The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1] Reference
Should they lose consciousness for a moment, they would drop off, and tumble down upon their sleepless besieger!. From Wordnik.com. [The Cliff Climbers A Sequel to "The Plant Hunters"] Reference
Through the latter fell out two inanimate objects, the stone itself and the mangled body of a besieger it had struck. From Wordnik.com. [The Cloister and the Hearth] Reference
I have sat down before it as a besieger before a fortress, to make my approaches with the same systematic regularity. From Wordnik.com. [Journals of Expeditions of Discovery into Central Australia and Overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound in the Years 1840-1: Sent By the Colonists of South Australia, with the Sanction and Support of the Government: Including an Account of the Manners and Customs of the Aborigines and the State of Their Relations with Europeans — Complete] Reference
Between the city that was besieged and himself that was the besieger he was to set up an iron pan, as an iron wall, v. 3. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)] Reference
Then she made it clear to the good lady that she was not to be left alone for an instant to confront the welcome besieger. From Wordnik.com. [The Prince of Graustark] Reference
For weeks the mimic warfare went on, Buonaparte, always in command, being sometimes the besieger and as often the besieged. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. I. (of IV.)] Reference
He had been entirely uncomplex in his attitude, sitting down before his problem as a besieger might have sat down before a castle. From Wordnik.com. [T. Tembarom] Reference
They could not be built near enough to render assistance to each other; the besieger was in danger of being himself besieged in them. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Joan of Arc, Vol. 1 and 2] Reference
It is unfortunate that the world needed to see the blood of those brave men to realize the brutality of the siege and of the besieger. From Wordnik.com. [GlobalResearch.ca] Reference
Rome, and the successor of Alaric, the besieger of Rome, was of priceless value and showed that the great and statesmanlike thought of. From Wordnik.com. [Theodoric the Goth Barbarian Champion of Civilisation] Reference
And she, so sweetly solicited -- more dangerous than if boldly beset -- had her heart withstood the sapping of such a crafty besieger!. From Wordnik.com. [The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness] Reference
A pause followed, and they heard a besieger remark, "They're in safe enough. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Brown's Schooldays]
I have often entertained a dread lest I should fall a victim to my besieger, and that fear has saved me thus far. ". From Wordnik.com. [Daughters of the Puritans A Group of Brief Biographies] Reference
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