This smart officer had made his way into the beleagured town piloted by a native diviner--a personage who claimed by means of a rod to ascertain the whereabouts of Boers, as other diviners have decided the presence of water.
When the animals broke down, strings of peasants were harnessed to the traces: and by the afternoon of the second day the relieving army, numbering a short four dozen of exhausted men, had found their way into the beleagured place.
A relief party of eighty-one men was immediately sent out to the aid of the beleagured whites, and the command was entrusted to Fetterman.
Fortunately his wound was not serious and he recovered in a short time; but he got no water, and thus thebeleagured men and women were in desperate straits indeed.
On the next day our eager general continued his march to Puebla, and entering it on the 13th of October, drove the Mexicans from all their positions and effectually relieved the pressed but pertinacious commander of the beleagured Americans.
Clouds of arrows, and showers of stones were discharged on the heads of the beleagured townsmen.
The provisions of the beleagured band were scant, and it was almost entirely deprived of water.
Cooped up in thebeleagured city of Lucknow, the brave Havelock received but scanty news of what was transpiring in other parts of India.
You want to get quickly to the Bastions,” says Tolstoy, showing an imaginary visitor through the beleagured town, “especially to that Fourth Bastion of which you have been told so many tales.
An enormous army was marshaled, and was on its way for the relief of the beleagured city.
Red-hot shot, falling into the beleagured city, will not turn from the cradle of the infant, or from the couch of the dying maiden.
Were not the masterpieces of Attic comedy written in a beleagured State in the throes of a disastrous war?
The Mudir laughs over it, I think, and saw the kind instruction, “raise barrier on barrier between Kartoum and its sister beleagured cities and Cairo; let us hear the last of these moving cities and Halomans.
That strong barrier, as repeatedly stated, was even a more formidable obstacle than the bridge to the communication between the beleagured city and their allies upon the outside.
Diversity of humours, popular license, anarchy, did not constitute the best government for a city beleagured by Alexander Farnese.
A number of residents in the neighbourhood were taken on board for conveyance to the beleagured city.
The Court took advantage of the occasion to throw out a general hint about the inadvisability of permitting anybody to reside near the borders of a beleagured town.
This was gratifying; we blamed the rebels for our own beleagured state, and the moral lesson of the rout at Douglas might hasten the discomfiture of the gentlemen who surrounded us.
It was not, however, the detraction from our repute as prophets that saddened us, so much as the wearing off of what was novel in our beleagured state.
The villagers sold the grain which they had laid up for their own winter supplies, at no very exorbitant rates, and the horrors of immediate starvation were averted from the beleagured force.
It brought to light a new evil that threatened destruction to the beleagured force.
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