Surely I have known before Phantoms of the shapes ye be-- Haunters of another shore 'Leaguered by another sea.
This Polydorus once with great weight of gold had hapless Priam sent in secret to the nurture of the Thracian king, when now he was losing trust in the arms of Dardania, and saw his city leaguered round about.
But the army of the Aeneadae are held leaguered within their trenches, with no hope of retreat.
Take you not shame to be again held leagueredin your ramparts, O Phrygians twice taken, and to make walls your fence from death?
So speaks he, and counsels inly whom he shall lead to meet them, whom leave in charge of the leaguered walls.
In his first visit, moreover, peace had been the rule, and he could not go amiss for friends: now the palace was a leaguered citadel, and he could hardly go amiss for enemies.
To the garrison, under arms meantime, and suffering from the influence of all they heard, the dawn was a long time coming; but at last the sun came, and poured its full light over the leaguered palace and courtly precincts.
Still was the cry, “The Vánar foes Around the leaguered city close.
This very day shall end our griefs For leaguered town and slaughtered chiefs.
The remnant of those legions, they Who saw his power that fatal day, Now in this leaguered city dread The mighty chief from whom they fled.
The soldier took no notice of her denial; he felt too sure of his fact to hold other than pity for the leaguered lady.
Yesterday, and for many yesterdays, I was a leaguered lady, a priestess of battles; I stood for the King; existence was one fierce ecstasy.
No time should be lost in going to the help of the leaguered city, so, after a short rest, Jeanne rode forward across the sandy Sologne and the flat country of Touraine.
The march was watched anxiously from the leaguered city, and so flat was the country that every movement could be marked after the troops left Olivet.
In those first days when he began to doubt the Dardan might, Having the leaguered walls of Troy for ever in his sight.
And then they knew that while they searched for Time, Time had gone forth against their city and leaguered it with the years, and had taken it while they were far away and enslaved their women and children with the yoke of age.
Athole winter when I dosed far off on the fields of Low Germanie, or sweated in sallies from leaguered towns.
Over the border, too; in struggling Maryland, in leaguered Missouri, and far into the North, the Catholic clergy were friends of the southern cause.
But strangest, amid all strange humors of the war, was that which echoed laughter over the leaguered walls of scarred, starving, desperate Vicksburg!
In the east, Godamar the free-lance lay with his troops in Thorney Isle, closed in and leaguered by the warlike Abbot of Rocroy.
Nor was this labour permitted to pass unrebuked before the leaguered folk upon the headland.
A thousand Mexicans lay dead outside the convent gate, And half a thousand more must die before the fortress falls, And still the tide of war beats high around the leaguered walls.
Thus did the battle mountain Blazon with flashes dire; The leagueredcrest responded In a coronal of fire.
