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- noun Plural form of
siege .
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Examples
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We'll also have ongoing, longer demonstrations - what we call sieges - that last from 6 in the morning until 10 at night.
t r u t h o u t 2010
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Trojan adventures in sieges of statistics, and, armed with test tubes and hypodermics, engages in gladiatorial contests with weird microorganisms.
CHAPTER VII 2010
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Moscow were murdered in sieges by: (a) Russian exchange students
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Trojan adventures in sieges of statistics, and, armed with test tubes and hypodermics, engages in gladiatorial contests with weird microorganisms.
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They have fought the enemies of the country heroically, like Maria Pita and Augustina de Aragon; they have stood by their husbands and sons in sieges and battles, being a source of strength, and never a pretext for weakness.
Art and Handicraft in the Woman's Building of the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893 1894
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To these liquid combustibles the city and empire of Constantine owed their deliverance; and they were employed in sieges and sea-fights with terrible effect.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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Bombard: Very large caliber front-loading cannon used in sieges.
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To reconcile these apparent contradictions, we must allow for some delay in the Persian king, some inaccuracy in the historian, and some disorder in the seasons.] 60 The account of these sieges is given by Ammianus, xx.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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They did not know of the great change that the last half-century had made in sieges.
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Their sieges were a succession of butcheries; because the commonest materials, and the means necessary to their art, were denied the engineers_. "[
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