Firing was kept up through the 19th; and on the 20th the besiegers obtained bales of hemp, wet them, and rolling them along before them as a movable breastwork, were enabled to approach the intrenchments.
All the while the besiegers were digging away, bringing their trenches closer to the defences, till the soldiers of the hostile lines bandied jests across the narrow intervening space.
All was in vain, though thebesiegers outnumbered the garrison twenty-fold, and exposed their lives with the same recklessness that their ancestors had shown in the invasion of the empire a hundred years back.
With forces augmented by the northern part of the besiegers of Mantua, he moved rapidly westwards from the Mincio against Brescia, and rescued it from the vanguard of Quosdanovich (August 1st).
In fact, every experienced officer among besiegers and besieged saw the weak point of the defence: early in September Hood and Mulgrave began the fortification of the heights behind L'Eguillette.
Besides, he very naturally expected the besiegers of Genoa to retreat now that their rear was threatened.
And Gelimer was afraid, suspecting that his besiegers would come up against him after no great time; and the bodies of most of the children who were related to him[21] were discharging worms in this time of misery.
In nowise disheartened by these failures, the besiegers now redoubled their exertions, and pursued their mining operations with a vigour and an activity which the garrison could not match.
The operations of the besiegers were pushed forward with some vigour, but the constancy of the garrison was not to be shaken.
Whilst the activity of the garrison thus sensibly increased, that of the besiegers was plainly declining.
Even now, with becoming festivity, was it observed both by besiegers and besieged.
Lambert himself, the increasing tumult coming up to him through the still, autumn air, got thirty of the besiegers together.
However it was faring with the garrison behind the city walls, it was certain that the besiegers were thin and mutinous from lack of food.
The besiegers then brought other artillery to bear.
They waited till one of the sentries on the battlements sent word that the besiegers were at their mid-day meal.
And thus for more than two months thebesiegers built and the garrison destroyed their works.
The besiegers next tried to destroy the town by fire.
But as time went on the besiegers grew more lax in discipline, and on wet nights sought the shelter of the towers, leaving the spaces between without guards.
The besiegers now let down quantities of stiff clay rolled up in wattled reeds, which could not be thus pulled away.
Over the palace walls the besiegers sent words ominous and disquieting, and not to be confounded with the half-sung formulas of the watchers keeping time on the temples by the movement of the stars.
Somewhere he had read or heard of the device known in ancient warfare as mantelets,--literally, a kind of portable roof, under which besiegers approached and sapped or battered a wall.
The besiegers still continued their bombardment of the House but without much effect; and the garrison continued to have much the best of the sorties.
Only six men were reported to have been killed in the last siege, four of the besiegers and two royalists.
Some of the besiegers lay at Tunstall on the north-west side; and Rigby himself stayed at Hornby Castle, which is four miles away, and rode over daily to the siege.
The accounts of these sorties are probably exaggerated, and the number of the besiegers who were killed is certainly placed much too high; but the attack was not pressed with very much resolution.
Then the defence collapsed, and the besiegers became masters of the town.
The walls and gates were well guarded, and a reserve told off to assist a retreat if necessary; Captain Chisenhale then issued from the eastern gate, surprised the besiegers and after severe fighting drove them from their trenches.
When the news of Rupert's coming reached the camp of the besiegers before Lathom House the only doubt was where they might escape.
The besiegersnow moved their lines nearer to the walls.
He says "It is said that the camp of the besiegers was in a woody dell near what is now called the 'Round O Quarry' about half a mile from Lathom.
The royalists stated, and probably with some truth, that the besiegers were so disheartened that they could not prevent their men from deserting in large numbers.
The besiegers were proportionately discouraged by its loss; and many of their other guns were now removed in order to prevent their capture.
The royalists claimed that the besiegers had lost 500 men during the siege.
The besiegers continued at work in their trenches, but a heavy fall of rain which caused some of the earth to fall in and killed three men, interfered with this undertaking.
The besiegers then took possession of the place, which since that period has been called Kóta Bedak (the deserted fort.
The besiegers were much annoyed with devices, ingeniously contrived by the garrison to intimidate them, and hinder and injure their work.
The besiegers had commenced their retreat between twelve and one o'clock the preceding night.
Indeed, it was said, in derision it might be, that sometimes their guns occasioned more damage to the besiegers than to the besieged.
The accompanying view is taken from a hill above the valley or trench, where, it is said, the main army of the besiegers was encamped.
But, while he was busily preparing for his departure, he was seized with a malignant fever, during the delirium of which his mind was observed constantly to be occupied with his intended exploits against the besiegers of Tangiers.
His first exploit was the storm of Tredagh, or Drogheda, where the besiegers put the whole garrison to the sword, and committed the most dreadful excesses of barbarity.
Proud Heuteger is the hero, of him may I speak with right 500 For since ourbesiegers threaten there dawneth never a day But before the gates 'neath the castle, that knight doth his charger stay.
But though the place when reinvested was more formidable than before, the besiegers appeared only the more determined to reduce it.
The siege of Rodrigo continued; a gallant resistance was made, for the garrison disputed every inch of ground, rallying frequently, and maintaining a well-directed fire that occasioned the besiegers considerable loss.
Indeed, the loss of the besiegers bore melancholy confirmation of the fact, for the reduction of that fortress cost the allies nearly four thousand men.
Great bravery was displayed by besiegers and besieged, and humour as usual found its way into such an incongruous place.
Both thebesiegers and the besieged were active in their operations.
It was held but for a short time, as the enemy came down in force, and drove the besiegers from it.
Throughout the province, at the call of the defenders of Saragossa the insurgent peasants intercepted the convoys of provisions intended for the French army, and the besiegers no less than the besieged suffered from want of food.
The misery in the town, however, was greater than the besiegers could suspect.
But in other parts the besiegers pursued the defenders of the castle from chamber to chamber, and satiated in their blood the vengeance which had long animated them against the soldiers of the tyrant, Front-de Boeuf.
An interval of quiet now succeeded, the besiegers remaining in possession of the outer defences of the castle, and the besieged retiring for the time within the walls of the fortress.
They are fast rising, at least," said Ulrica; "and a signal shall soon wave to warn the besiegers to press hard upon those who would extinguish them.
At this moment the besiegers caught sight of the red flag upon the tower which Ulrica had described to Cedric; and, as she had bade them do, the assailants at once redoubled their efforts to break in the postern gate.
The day happened to be a quiet one, and the deep booming of the guns of the besiegers could be distinctly heard.
He repulsed the besiegers in all their assaults, and by his own example brought not only the garrison, but the inhabitants, to bear the most severe fatigues, and to encounter the greatest dangers, without murmuring.
But for your father; name to me the place of his confinement, and as I have not the besiegers of Cartlane Craigs to encounter.
Not a man of the besiegers was missing from his post; and not an avenue appeared by which they could trace his flight: but gone he was, and with him his whole train.
He was seized by the besiegers and dragged on to a hillock outside their camp, where he was flung down by one of their commanders; and as the unhappy man was still rolling, the traitor Boson beat out his brains with a battle-axe.
They not only kept their gates open, but made breaches in the walls to facilitate the furious sallies which cost the besiegers heavily.
The besiegershad prepared great numbers of strong ladders, and these were brought up under shelter of the screens.
The enemy, aided by a great Persian host, came down, and those who had been the besiegers were now besieged.
From the upper story were drawbridges, so formed as to drop from the structures upon the walls, and thus enable the besiegers to rush upon them.
And so though the Priests on the rampart above the gate picked off now and again some of those who tended the fire, they could do the besiegers no further injury, and remained up to the last quite in ignorance of their tactics.
From one quarter of the city walls the din of an attack from the besiegers made itself clearly heard from over the house, and the temples and the palaces intervening, but no one heeded it.
The besiegers out in the wet and mud wearied of the slow process under which the encircling lines were brought closer and closer and longed for more active operations.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "besiegers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
