Sentence examples for work siege from inspiring English sources

In 1967 Beckett described him at work:Siege laid again to the impregnable without.

In June 2005, Warwick Castle became home to one of the world's largest working siege engines.

Descriptions by the Jewish historian Josephus, until then the only detailed source of Masada's history, were found to be highly accurate; the palaces, storehouses, defense works, and Roman camps and siege works were all revealed and cleared, as was the winding trail (the "Snake Path") on the mesa's northeastern face.

Bombing alone may not work, and a siege may be required.

("One such drink is served to a soldier as a restorative after a hard day's work at the siege of Troy," Dalby says).

Freedom theatre will tour across the UK in 2015, with a programme including a new work about the siege of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem in 2002.

Cast iron has more than two and a half times the density of marble or granite, and gunners quickly learned that a cast-iron cannonball with a charge of good corned powder behind it was unsafe in any gun large enough for serious siege work.

The siege work at Maastricht in winter weather was too much for the French volunteers and many deserted their units and went home.

Each side ended up holding an officer of the other, principally over matters of military etiquette, and the British continued their siege work.

The siege work was difficult and the living conditions were brutal; he recounted to his brother that the soldiers were plagued not only by the Russian fire, but by dysentery, bad food, and wintering in tents.

Impressive siege works, including forts, were then undertaken.