beleaguerment

It is almost as if the habits of beleaguerment have completely blinded conservative intellectuals to their own success.

But a beleaguerment of fear and doubt and suspense is a hard thing for the morale.

The house had grown very silent, as if the macabre and charnel army of beleaguerment had now retired to its various graves.

There was no link between Sally's sexual beleaguerment, Hannah's fear of our attic, the Burridge seniors' drugged sleep, and Helen's optical illusions.

For some Israeli officials, developments such as those in Munich have reinforced a general sense of beleaguerment that, in their view, has roots in the tattered state of relations with the United States.

Royal's reaction felt so hyperbolic as to be either a cynical ploy - which I doubted - or evidence that her astonishing record of success had barely touched her inner sense of beleaguerment, of victimization.

In this way I carried men and animals through our beleaguerment in pretty fair condition, and of the turkeys, chickens, ducks, and eggs sent in for the messes of my officers we often had enough to divide liberally among those at different headquarters.

He seemed to think we should have told him of the existence of Glennanne instead of leaving him to discover it for himself from an item among Mr. McNair's papers; and he hotly resented Saul's holding it against beleaguerment.

It was for thee that young Sarpedon died, And Memnon's manhood was untimely spent; It was for thee gold-crested Hector tried With Thetis' child that evil race to run, In the last year of thy beleaguerment; Ay!

The seven months' beleaguerment was ended, the thing which the first generals of France had called impossible was accomplished; in spite of all that the King's ministers and war-councils could do to prevent it, this little country-maid at seventeen had carried her immortal task through, and had done it in four days!