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...lief Of olives and cypress, breasts, birds, Stinging and perspiration’s siege, Roots climbing out of centuries. P Beauty, the wedding is over a... ...often felt Milan’s shabby antiquity. It was a lesson in futility. So many sieges: 1497, 1500, 1512...military engagements that disrupted every fiber ... ...d every fiber of living. (There is nothing like the filth of a city under siege.) During the last siege, in 1515, the cannonades drove me out of the... ...was air space to lessen the danger of plague. Fifty thousand dead in ’09. Sieges...death... Milan...all focused on my cenasolo...my Maria delle Graz... ...orence had more patina. I rambled on about Milan and my paintings and the siege and Milan’s bombardment and deaths—pell-mell thoughts. Francesco bro...

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...ndes, the boat people fleeing Asia), denizens of besieged cities (e.g., during the siege of Leningrad), members of exploratory expeditions gone ast... ...y a host of intrusive Big Brother technologies coupled with a growing paranoia and siege mentality in an increasingly hostile world, populated by h...

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...and of the Imperial Troops. — Treaty with France. — Congress at Leipzig. — Siege and cruel fate of Magdeburg. — Firmness of the Landgrave of Cassel. —... ..., and therefore little to be depended on. Vienna was unprepared for a long siege. The party of the Protestants, ready at any moment to join the Bohemi... ...who commanded these troops after the recall of Spinola, hastily raised the siege of Frankenthal, when Mansfeld entered the Lower 117 Friedrich Schill... ...8 The History of the Thirty Y ears’ War brave general met his death at the siege of Neuhausel, as, shortly before, the no less val- iant Dampierre had... ...elled the Spanish general forth- 121 Friedrich Schiller with to raise the siege of Bergen-op-Zoom. But even Holland was soon weary of these danger- o... ...ole army. After throwing into this place the necessary supplies for a long siege, the latter attempted to open a new passage through Eichsfeld and Thu... ... Savelli, had surren- dered to the king, and Colberg, after a five months’ siege, was starved into a capitulation. As the passes in Upper Pomerania we... ... relieve it, had again returned to Magdeburg, to prosecute with vigour the siege of that town. The rich archbishopric, of which Magdeburg was the capi... ... and obliged Tilly at once to have recourse to arms. In the meanwhile, the siege was prolonged, by the progress of the King of Sweden, which called th...

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...l Taylor had an army of not more than three thousand men. One battery, the siege guns and all the convalescent troops were sent on by water to Brazos ... ...camped on its old ground near the Fort, and the garrison was relieved. The siege had lasted a number of days, but the casualties were few in num- ber.... ...nt would return to its camp in the morning. The point for establishing the siege battery was reached and the work performed without attracting the att... ...ant CHAPTER IX POLITICAL INTRIGUE—BUENA VISTA— MOVEMENT AGAINST VERA CRUZ— SIEGE AND CAPTURE OF VERA CRUZ THE MEXICAN WA R was a political war, and th... ...tempt was made to cap- ture the batteries or to drive our troops away. The siege continued with brisk firing on our side till the 27th of March, by wh... ...o the hands of the victorious force. The casualties on our side during the siege amounted to sixty-four officers and men, killed and wounded. CHAPTER ... ...fied that it would have required a large force and a long 145 U. S. Grant siege to capture it. In the latter part of October General Fremont took the... ...eatest suffering was from want of shelter. It was midwinter and during the siege we had rain and snow, thawing and freezing alternately. It would not ... ...id not know but I should be forced to the alterna- tive of going through a siege. But the enemy relieved me from this necessity. When I left the Natio...

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...on bare, And, conqu’ring, finish’d the successful war. From him the Trojan siege I understood, The Grecian chiefs, and your illustrious blood. Y our f... ...ruitless care, And wearied with an unsuccessful war) Resolv’d to raise the siege, and leave the town; And, had the gods permitted, they had gone; But ... ...tis’ greater son, The Aeneid Virgil 35 A thousand ships, nor ten years’ siege, had done False tears and fawning words the city won. “A greater ome... ...ssisted to the field? Not so my father taught my childhood arms; Born in a siege, and bred among alarms! Nor is my youth unworthy of my friend, Nor of... ...m afar, The Trojans keep aloof the rising war. Taught, by their ten years’ siege, defensive fight, They roll down ribs of rocks, an unresisted weight,... ...they still sustain? Shall Troy renew’d be forc’d and fir’d again? A second siege my banish’d issue fears, And a new Diomede in arms appears. One more ... ...s palace wait their sov’reign thro’ the skies. Meantime, intent upon their siege, the foes Within their walls the Trojan host inclose: They wound, the... ...rn’d. The long defense the Trojan people made, The war protracted, and the siege delay’d, Were due to Hector’s and this hero’s hand: Both brave alike,...

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...orghetto? or are they destined to invest V erona, storm Peschiera, and lay siege to Mantua? This is more than I can tell you, for, I repeat it, 20 Mi...

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...le surrender of whole corps without fight- ing and of fortresses without a siege must incline Germans to recognize his genius as the only explanation ...

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...n a flower? O, how shall summer’s honey breath hold out Against the wreckful siege of battering days, When rocks impregnable are not so stout, Nor gat...

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...e season fit, Our sureties shall with doubt be overcast. If we forslow the siege I well foresee From Egypt will the Pagans succored be.” XXIX This sai... ...mpass had that forteress, That round it could not be environed With narrow siege — nor Babel’s king I guess That whilom took it, such an army led — Bu... ...ntage gain, As tired soldiers whom some fort keeps out, Thence raise their siege, and spoil the towns about. 112 Jerusalem Delivered LXV But yet all ... ...ase behold, These heavy speeches of the king he heard, Who thus from lofty siege his pleasure told; “My lords, last day our state was much impaired, O... ...s eathest shamed; I hope the best, yet fear unconstant mart, And with this siege if we be long up pent, Famine I doubt, our store will all be spent. X... ...od, and conquest thought, Too little is this city to sustain, To raise the siege unless some means be sought; And it must last till the prefixed hour ...

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...h dangerous expedition to invade Heav’n, whose high walls fear no assault or Siege, Or ambush from the Deep. What if we find Paradise Lost Milton ... ...easures about me, so much more I feel Torment within me, as from the hateful siege Of contraries; all good to me becomes Bane, and in Heav’n much wors... ...rcasses and Arms th’ ensanguind Field Deserted: Others to a Citie strong Lay Siege, encampt; by Batterie, Scale, and Mine, Assaulting; others from the... ...s Usurper his encroachment proud Stayes not on Man; to God his Tower intends Siege and defiance: Wretched man! what food Will he convey up thither to ...

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...s too. I can read him like a book. At present he is hesitating whom to lay siege to—you or Mademoiselle Julie Karagina. He is very attentive to her.” ...

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...ne of the German princes serving with the Russian army were discussing the siege of Saragossa and considering the possibility of defending Mos- cow in...

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...y kind very far: the wolf at the door will compel us to live in a state of siege and to do everything by a bureaucratic martial law that would be quit...

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... of events had brought about. Without despairing, however, I undertook the siege of a less implacable heart. The fates were again propitious for a bri...

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...e perpetual testing of all general statements by particular instances; the siege in form which is laid to the meaning of large abstract terms, by fixi...

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...ormed against Muhammad by the Jews and idolatrous Arabians, issuing in the siege of Medina, Hej. 5 (A.D. 627)–the con- vention, with reference to the ... ...ed the city to attack the faithful in the trenches. 11 That is, raise the siege. 12 That is, that through trials we should attain to Paradise, v. 29... ...is, that through trials we should attain to Paradise, v. 29. 13 After the siege of Medina had been raised, Muhammad made a successful expedition agai...

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... the late king, said to be the son of a Turkish pasha, whom he took at the siege of Buda, and constantly kept about his person—P . 19 ‘Parson Hale;’ ...

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... pistols and a saber—a present from his father who had brought it from the siege of Ochakov. All these traveling effects of Prince Andrew’s were in ve... ...s too. I can read him like a book. At present he is hesitating whom to lay siege to— you or Mademoiselle Julie Karagina. He is very atten- tive to her... ... of the German princes serving with the Russian army were dis- cussing the siege of Saragossa and considering the pos- sibility of defending Moscow in... ...ible surrender of whole corps without fighting and of fortresses without a siege must incline Germans to recognize his genius as the only explanation ...