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Definition of Sieges
1. siege [v] - See also: siege
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sieges
Literary usage of Sieges
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Norman Conquest of England: Its Causes and Its Results by Edward Augustus Freeman (1879)
"The war- Warfare fare of the two centuries after the Conquest is almost ¡ wholly
a warfare of sieges. It is only at one stage of our ..."
2. La Mort D'Arthure: The History of King Arthur and of the Knights of the by Thomas Malory, Thomas Wright (1865)
"... have the better wil to maintaine you." And so they arose, and did their homage.
And when they were gone, Merlin found in the sieges letters of gold that ..."
3. International Law Documents by Naval War College (U.S.) (1903)
"With blockades by land or ordinary sieges neutrals have usually little to do."1 "
There is an important distinction between sieges and blockades. ..."
4. Berlin and Its Environs: Handbook for Travellers by Karl Baedeker (Firm) (1905)
"From this point the Ahorn-Steig leads to the left, intersecting the sieges-Alice,
to the Luisen Insel (p. 178), while the Charlottenburg Chaussee runs ..."
5. A Manual of Practical Hygiene by Edmund Alexander Parkes (1878)
"For sieges, as vegetables are sure to fall short, a very ample supply of lemon-juice,
... The sanitary duties during sieges' are often difficult. ..."
6. The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians by Charles Rollin (1830)
"It is rather in such little sieges and encage- ments as we find recorded in the
history of the Peloponnesian war, that the conduct and abilities of a ..."
7. The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians by Charles Rollin (1869)
"THE sieges OP CAPUA AND ROME. FROM Hannibal's abode in Capua, the Carthaginian
affairs in Italy no longer supported their reputation.2 M. Marcellus, ..."
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