Sentence examples for the same siege from inspiring English sources

During the same siege she withstood a blow from a stone which hit her helmet while she was near the base of the town's wall.

They are, instead, bracing themselves for more of the same: tightened sieges and curfews in their cities.

Jean O'Hagan, Worthing, West Sussex Depending on my local library for good books, I was delighted to have read two books mentioned in your review: Anna Funder's Stasiland and Gillian Slovo's The Ice Road, although Helen Dunmore's The Siege, on the same theme yet with a narrower scope haunted me for months.

All the same, the expected siege from City never really materialised and Newcastle rarely looked in trouble during the closing stages.

English forces laid siege to Loch Leven in 1301, but the garrison was relieved in the same year when the siege was broken by Sir John Comyn.

During the same year the protracted siege of Samaria was brought to a close.

All the same, the four-day siege of the gas complex and the deaths of dozens of hostages from half a dozen countries grimly made France's point.

(There is a fine, funny play to be written about the moment when Machiavelli, Cesare Borgia, and Leonardo were all stuck in the same castle during a siege).

"But a month later the Palestinians woke up to the same problems: poverty, mismanagement, siege, unemployment, little freedom of movement," Mr. Abusada said.

Walking along Madison Avenue, she had the same sense of being under siege that she had felt during the two years she spent as a student at Hebrew University in Israel.

Amedy Coulibaly, the gunman who killed a female police officer then killed four in the kosher grocery siege in the same wave as the Charlie Hebdo attacks, came from the tough Grande Borne estate in Grigny only four miles away from where Mostefai grew up.