The son of Charles Martel, the noble Charlemagne, who is venerated as a saint in Germany, sent his soldiers to Lourdes in order to beleaguer the castle and to starve its occupants without destroying the city. |
And yet I cannot think that any Scottish or French rovers could land in such force as to beleaguer the fortalice. |
In his tragedy of Ezelino, after the tyrant's downfall, a captain is sent to beleaguer Treviso, and reduce Ezelino's garrison. |
But many stresses that beleaguer us do not fall into these categories. |
The San Francisco and Oakland airports face each other across San Francisco Bay, but Oakland is on the sunny side, escaping the delays that beleaguer its often fog-bound rival. |
Somehow that seemed to make her matter less, and Dodo had not at present made any determined effort to beleaguer her. |