Sentence examples for siege pieces from inspiring English sources

The 16th century produced some remarkable siege pieces from Amsterdam, Bergen op Zoom, and elsewhere.

In Ireland as in England, the English Civil Wars produced a number of siege pieces, notably the money of the Irish peers Inchiquin and Ormonde.

The trench served as a siege moat, part of an offensive siege system around the tell.

By hand, troops had to haul 6 pieces of siege artillery, 14 pieces of field artillery and a railroad ram across the bridge under a full moon that illuminated every move of their surprise attack.

Yes, it's a story about rabbits rabbits tearing chunks out of other rabbits, rabbits cowering in ditches and burrows under siege, rabbits getting smashed to pieces by trains, dead rabbits being led away from this realm and their meat by The Black Rabbit of Inlé, a phantom rabbit whose job it is to reap souls for the rabbit afterlife.

Yes, it's a story about rabbits – rabbits tearing chunks out of other rabbits, rabbits cowering in ditches and burrows under siege, rabbits getting smashed to pieces by trains, dead rabbits being led away from this realm and their meat by The Black Rabbit of Inlé, a phantom rabbit whose job it is to reap souls for the rabbit afterlife.

After a Sunday opinion piece said the Morsi Administration was "under siege" by the Brotherhood, a Wednesday piece directly links the Islamist group to America's "one percent".

In Under Siege, her 1982 debut performance piece at the Aspex gallery in Portsmouth, she writhed around inside a transparent plastic box smeared with brown clay.

Tests showed that the average noise level in the orchestra during the piece, "State of Siege," by the composer Dror Feiler, was 97.4 decibels, just below the level of a pneumatic drill and a violation of new European noise-at-work limits.

In both Ireland and Scotland the challenge was how to transport artillery pieces to castle sieges; the poor state of Scottish roads required expensive trains of pack horses, which only the king could afford, and in Ireland the river network had to be frequently used to transport the weapons inland.

With considerable skill, McDermid juggles serious themes (from national genocide and ethnic tension to individual human betrayal) with great assurance, and there are set pieces – such as the siege of Dubrovnik – that are as good as anything she has written.