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Definition of Assieging
1. assiege [v] - See also: assiege
Literary usage of Assieging
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Fairfax Correspondence: Memoirs of the Reign of Charles the First by George William Johnson (1848)
"... by his own authority, commanded the laying and assieging of soldiers upon his
Majesty's subjects in Ireland, against their consents, to compel them to ..."
2. The History of the Kirk of Scotland by David Calderwood (1843)
"... ravishing of a woman, assieging of men in their owne houses within burgh,
holding of a hous of warre within burgh, and shooting furth of the same the ..."
3. The Register of the Privy Council of Scotland by Scotland Privy Council (1904)
"... or assieging the saids strenths and houses there sail happin slaughter,
mutilation or anie other inconvenient ..."
4. The Chronicles of the White Rose of York: A Series of Historical Fragments by John Warkworth, John Allen Giles (1845)
"... nor to tarry for the assieging thereof; as well for avoidance of great slaughter
that should thereby ensue, and for that it was thought more expedient ..."
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