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Besieger

noun
1.
An enemy who lays siege to your position.
2.
An energetic petitioner.





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"Besieger" Quotes from Famous Books



... personal fears, no weakness of purpose entered the high soul of Nigel Bruce amid these painful cogitations. He well knew no shade of dishonor could fall on him; he thought not one moment of his own fate, although if the castle were taken he knew death awaited him, either by the besieger's sword or the hangman's cord, for he would make no condition; he thought only that this was well-nigh the last castle in his brother's keeping, which, if lost, would in the present depressed state of his affairs be indeed a fatal blow, and a ...
— The Days of Bruce Vol 1 - A Story from Scottish History • Grace Aguilar
... is thy punishment. No martyrdom were sufficient for thee, equal to thine own rage." The besieger of ...
— Stories from the Italian Poets: With Lives of the Writers, Volume 1 • Leigh Hunt
... terrors of her situation, the woman found those stealthy scratchings and sniffings, and the strain of the silences that fell between, were more than she could endure. At first, she thought of getting a couple of blazing sticks, throwing open the shack door, and deliberately attacking her besieger. But this idea she dismissed as quite too desperate and futile. Then she remembered that bears were fond of sweets. A table in the corner was heaped with great, round cakes of fragrant sugar, the shape of the pans in which they had been cooled. One of these she snatched up, and ...
— The House in the Water - A Book of Animal Stories • Charles G. D. Roberts
... Ossa he has scaled heaven. Through uncounted aeons the mountain has been gathering its forces. Frost and snow and ice and the willing winds have been its sworn retainers. Cold and famine and death it flaunted in the face of the besieger. Man is of a day, and the elements are but slippery allies. A spade and a compass are his meagre weapons; yet man has conquered. The struggle was long, with many a reconnaissance and partial triumph, but at length the victory is complete. Man has placed his hand on the ...
— Gala-days • Gail Hamilton
... trenches, zig-zags, saps, and other works, by which a besieger makes good his way up to a ...
— The Sailor's Word-Book • William Henry Smyth


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