beleaguerer

He is a sore beleaguerer of chambers, and assaults them sometimes with furious knocks; yet finds strong resistance commonly, and is kept out.

Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters John Earle

To cast glamour and put confusion into a besieged place a witch is employed by the beleaguerer, just as William the Conqueror used the witch in the

The Danish History, Books I-IX Grammaticus Saxo

Hasdrubal hurled to ruin at the supreme crisis of the war, Marcellus the victorious, beleaguered [616] and beleaguerer, the ill-starred Paulus, the Senate of Rome that thanked the fugitive Varro because he had not despaired of the republic, [617] and above all the gigantic figure of

Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914

Today, especially, the assurance of success -- the sense of entering like a victorious beleaguerer receiving the keys of the stronghold -- disposed him to a sentimental perception of what the other side might have to say for itself, in the language of old portraits, old relics, old usages dumbly outraged by his mere presence.

Madame de Treymes. 1906

Today, especially, the assurance of success -- the sense of entering like a victorious beleaguerer receiving the keys of the stronghold -- disposed him to a sentimental perception of what the other side might have to say for itself, in the language of old portraits, old relics, old usages dumbly outraged by his mere presence.

Madame De Treymes Edith Wharton 1899

The presumptuous beleaguerer withdrew and was glad to come off without capture.

David Lockwin—The People's Idol John McGovern 1883