...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」
...It is famous for its two cathedrals,El Pilar and La Seo, and for its obstinate and heroicresistance at the time of the siege by the French in 1808...
Gustavo Adolfo Becquer 「Legends, Tales and Poems」
...Memories of the famine of the siege of ‘70 tormented the imagination...
Vicente Blasco Ibanez Charlotte Brewster Jordan 「The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse」
...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」
...Sapt knew and trusted him, for he had been with us all through the siege of Zenda, when Michael kept the king a prisoner, and he bore marks given him by Rupert of Hentzau’s ruffians...
Anthony Hope 「Rupert of Hentzau」
...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」
...At the request of that paper I then undertook to send them cables about the siege...
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」
...This sum was ably administered by Colonel Vyvyan of the Buffs, who had been Base-Commandant of Mafeking during the siege...
Lady Sarah Wilson 「South African Memories」
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