Verb (used with object), : Vacationers besieged the travel office. From Dictionary.com.
Arrows for burning would be appropriate in besieging. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference
Answering to the stones hurled by the Babylonians from engines in besieging Jerusalem. houses ... fire -- fulfilled (2Ch 36: 17, 19). From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference
He shall be brought to a stand for a time in besieging you; hence it is said just before, "Zaanan came not forth," that is, shut herself up within her walls to withstand a siege. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference
At midnight ten of the besieging ships were on fire. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
And fill besieging armies with wild disheveled fear. From Wordnik.com. [How the Flag Became Old Glory] Reference
We were, for the time, practically two armies besieging. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
It was a time of war, -- the Sabines were besieging the city. From Wordnik.com. [How to Tell Stories to Children, And Some Stories to Tell] Reference
For when they were besieging the city, which before was called. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 07: Judges The Challoner Revision] Reference
But tacky tourism isn't the most serious threat besieging the wall. From Wordnik.com. [Late Great Wall] Reference
The wind had changed, and his old enemy was once more besieging him. From Wordnik.com. [Lost in the Fog] Reference
Grecian fleet besieging Troy; and if, on his last visit before leaving. From Wordnik.com. [Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies] Reference
Sharon is saying Arafat is irrelevant but then why is he besieging him?. From Wordnik.com. ['He Will Not Capitulate'] Reference
And Rabsaces returned, and found the king of the Assyrians besieging Lobna. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 27: Isaias The Challoner Revision] Reference
Chaldeans who were besieging Jerusalem heard news of them, they broke up from Jerusalem. From Wordnik.com. [The World English Bible (WEB):] Reference
The playmate atop a hillock, raining down with rocks, staving off the besieging forces. From Wordnik.com. [What the Father Said] Reference
She knows that the Portuguese are at this moment besieging Goa, which formerly belonged to them. From Wordnik.com. [The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas] Reference
He stayed in the Vatican three days and then set forth again to join his army, which was besieging. From Wordnik.com. [Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day] Reference
Wherefore as Joab was besieging the city, he put Urias in the place where he knew the bravest men were. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 10: 2 Kings The Challoner Revision] Reference
France in 1370, and he died in 1380 in harness, at the ripe age of 66, while besieging a town in Languedoc. From Wordnik.com. [The Book-Hunter at Home] Reference
Knoxville, where General Burnside was still holding out against the besieging forces of General Longstreet. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
Thus the second day neared its close, and near evening there was an evident addition to the besieging force. From Wordnik.com. [The Wonder Island Boys: The Tribesmen] Reference
And the children of Juda besieging Jerusalem, took it, and put it to the sword, and set the whole city on fire. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 07: Judges The Challoner Revision] Reference
The old Druid idea of obsession, the besieging of a person by an evil spirit, was practised by them at that time. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Hallowe'en] Reference
If the IRA wants unionists to cast off their famous "siege mentality," it's time for the IRA to stop besieging them. From Wordnik.com. [A Future Without Losers] Reference
He was besieging Præneste, when the Samnites, after finding that they could not relieve it, marched directly upon Rome. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic] Reference
And Rabsaces returned, and found the king of the Assyrians besieging Lobna: for he had heard that he was departed from Lachis. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 12: 4 Kings The Challoner Revision] Reference
Duguesclin, who died on the 17th July 1380, while besieging the fortress of Châteauneuf-le-Randon, between Langogne and Mende. From Wordnik.com. [The South of France—East Half] Reference
There are people now besieging the booking offices by the hundreds who would be glad and thankful to find room in the steerage. From Wordnik.com. [Lucile Triumphant] Reference
These were the first steps then taken towards that kind of machinery, but afterwards, when Philip, the son of Amyntas, was besieging. From Wordnik.com. [The Ten Books on Architecture] Reference
French and Dutch settlements on the continent of India, and were besieging their forces in Cuddalore when intelligence of the peace in. From Wordnik.com. [Quaint Gleanings from Ancient Poetry] Reference
We were now looking west, besieging Pemberton, while we were also looking east to defend ourselves against an expected siege by Johnston. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
Jerusalem, (for he with all his army was besieging Lachis,) to Ezechias king of Juda, and to all the people that were in the city, saying. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete] Reference
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