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...this city were obstructed, and the capital was put into the condition of a siege. The mails in every direction were stopped and the lines of telegraph... ... Vicksburg of the 28th, 29th, 30th, and 31st; and, while they speak of the siege progressing, they speak of no assault or general fighting whatever, a... ...f almost every day preceding since the investment, and while they show the siege progressing they do not show any general fighting since the 21st and ... ...JOR-GENERAL Dix, Fort Monroe: We have despatches from Vicksburg of the 3d. Siege pro- gressing. No general fighting recently. All well. Nothing new fr... ... all those who, through the vicissitudes of marches, voyages, battles, and sieges have been, brought to suffer in mind, body, or estate, and finally t... ...increased, not- withstanding the waste that has been made in the camp, the siege, and the battle-field; and the country, rejoicing in the con- sciousn...

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...r magazines can possibly hold, not knowing when they may have to sustain a siege or a blockade. Upon which principle, gentlemen,” said he, “when a cav... ...ersons, as well as the hurt of the major himself at a sudden onfall at the siege of T railsund.” “I have often heard of this faculty,” observed Anders... ...feited par- ley, (a thing excellently practised by Sir James Ramsay at the siege of Hannau, in the year of God 1636,) but I will frankly own, that if ... ...re now. Neither did the Romans use ambassadors much more mercifully at the siege of Capua, although I read that they only cut off their hands and nose... ...tt bound to peril themselves as freely in services of this nature, as upon sieges, battles, or onslaughts of any sort. And albeit I have not with me a... ...ed acceptation, besides wasting the good vict- uals. I have seen when at a siege or a leaguer, Ranald, a living soldier would have been the better, Ra...

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...ence might have ravaged streets, squares, and market places; and sack and siege have ruined the old houses, bat tered down their doors and windows, ... ...nd crazy, and rotting away. The wretched history of the town, with all its sieges and pillages by Barbarossa and the rest, might have been acted last ... ... again, with their great, dark, mournful palaces, and many legends: not of siege, and war, and might, and Iron Hand alone, but of the trium phant gro...

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... right on the death of her father, the staunch warrior of Henry V . in the siege of Orleans. “Speak out, Leonard Copeland,” said the Earl. “What hast ... ...were not molested by the war, which was decidedly a war of battles, not of sieges, but they heard far more of tid- ings than were wont to reach Whitbu...

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...re so chosen by the assent of all the barons, so were there found in their sieges every knights’ names that here are rehearsed, and so were they set i... ...very knights’ names that here are rehearsed, and so were they set in their sieges; whereof Sir Bagdemagus was wonderly wroth, that Sir Tor was advance... ...s and Sir Marhaus were made knights of the Table Round, for there were two sieges void, for two knights were slain that twelvemonth, and great joy had...

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...e and thou have had great travail, and I dread we dwell over long from the siege, for it is but hence seven mile, and all perilous passages we are pas... ...ant of Inde is nothing of might nor strength unto the knight that laid the siege about my lady. As for that, said Sir Beaumains, be it as it be may. F... ...in two hours after noon I shall deliver him. And then shall we come to the siege by daylight. O Jesu, marvel have I, said the damosel, what manner a m... ...are ye way-leading this knight? Sir, she said, this knight is going to the siege that besiegeth my sister in the Castle Dangerous. Ah, ah, said Persan... ..., said Sir Persant, this Red Knight of the Red Laund hath lain long at the siege, well-nigh this two years, and many times he might have had her an he... ... Lamorak de Galis, or Sir Gawaine, and this is his tarrying so long at the siege. Now my lord Sir Persant of Inde, said the damosel Linet, I require y... ...r upon noble knights. CHAPTER XV How the damosel and Beaumains came to the siege; and came to a sycamore tree, and there Beaumains blew a horn, and th... ...tle, and there was much smoke and great noise; and when they came near the siege Sir Beaumains espied upon great trees, as he rode, how there hung ful... ...all 28 Sir Thomas Malory shent, for all these knights came hither to this siege to rescue my sister Dame Lionesse, and when the Red Knight of the Red...

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...hour, attack Shrew, rascal Shrewd, knavish Sib, akin to Sideling, sideways Siege, seat Signified, likened Siker, sure Sikerness, assurance Sith, since...

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...the Wars of the Roses were for the most part fought out in battles, not by sieges. Thus Fotheringay had spread out into a huge pile, which crowned the... ...d by half-a-dozen men, and placed before the Duke with bound hands. ‘Hola, Siege!’ said he in German, all unabashed. ‘You have got me at last—by a tri...

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... of it was to her like a fairy tale; and she had read Washington Irving’s “Siege of Granada,” so that she could fancy the courts filled with the knigh... ...oys, that even took off shoes, and dabbled in the shallow water; the great sieges of large castles, where whole parties attacked and defended—it was a...

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...or because he was wearying of Durrisdeer and looked about for some diver- sion, who but the devil shall decide? From that hour, at least, began the si... ...m his readiness to stop me in this direction, I conclude his eyes were not so dull as I had fancied, and he had looked not without anxiety upon the si... ...h my father’s death. How comes it, then, that a peer of the realm flees under cloud of night out of a house in which his fathers have stood several si...

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...by a silence ominous, threatening, and harder to bear than even the active siege and the noise. The landlord and the two village policemen stood their... ...ty, let him contrast it with the purposes and objects of the Crusades, the siege of Y ork, the W ar of the Roses, and other historic comedies of that ... ...member that Wellington or Napoleon ever examined Shakespeare’s battles and sieges and strategies, and then decided and established for good and all th...

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...quest of Sir Gawaine concluded to make war against Sir Launcelot, and laid siege to his castle called Joyous Gard A las, said Sir Gawaine, now is my j... ...ereft him his queen. Then the king and all his host made them ready to lay siege about Sir Launcelot, where he lay within Joyous Gard. Thereof heard S... ...stle. Then came King Arthur with Sir Gawaine with an huge host, and laid a siege all about Joyous Gard, both at the town and at the castle, and there ... ...ir Gawaine: My lords both, wit ye well all is in vain that ye make at this siege, for here win ye no worship but maugre and dishonour; for an it list ... ...X What message Sir Gawaine sent to Sir Launcelot; and how King Arthur laid siege to Benwick, and other mat- ters T hen Sir Gawaine said to the damosel... ...betwixt him and Sir Launcelot. So then they on King Arthur’s part kept the siege with little war withoutforth; and they withinforth kept their walls, ... ...n, for I shall never leave thee till that one of us be slain. Thus as this siege endured, and as Sir Gawaine lay sick near a month; and when he was we...

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...apel, and there made their orisons a great while, and set them down in the sieges of the chapel. And as they spake of one thing and other, for heavine...

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...CHAPTER XV CHAPTER XV P P P P PARIS IN ARIS IN ARIS IN ARIS IN ARIS IN THE SIEGE THE SIEGE THE SIEGE THE SIEGE THE SIEGE “A ND Uncle Joe is in France,...

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...re; I sing them both, and am about to batter A town which did a famous siege endure, And was beleaguer’d both by land and water By Souvaro... ...ut on the thirteenth, when already part Of the troops were embark’d, the siege to raise, A courier on the spur inspired new heart Into all p... ...ot find Liberty a Troy:— Oh, thou eternal Homer! I have now To paint a siege, wherein more men were slain, With deadlier engines and a speedie... ... must needs destroy, In such good company as always throng To battles, sieges, and that kind of pleasure, No less delighted to employ his leis...

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...th out of measure. And a short tale for to make, he went and laid a mighty siege about the Tower of London, and made many great assaults thereat, and ... ...d with him. Then came word to Sir Mordred that King Arthur had araised the siege for Sir 5 Le Morte Darthur – Book Twenty-one Launcelot, and he was c... ...his own land; also it was told Sir Launcelot how that Sir Mordred had laid siege about the Tower of London, because the queen would not wed him; then ...

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...was nothing at all to move wonder in the final result under so continual a siege of temptation from the se- ductions of voluptuous ease; the only wond... ...igation of the haughty vizier, Kara Mustafa, the T urks had undertaken the siege of Vienna; and great was the alarm of the Christian world. But, on th... ...he revolt. On the fifth of May, the T artar reached Corinth, but found the siege already raised. Thence he marched to Argos, sending before him a requ... ...ndred women captured. The Turks, having sacked and burned Argos, then laid siege to a monastery, which surrendered upon terms; and it is honorable to ... ...ne of Holkerstein’s garrisons through 254 Memorials, and Other Papers two sieges, I know what to think of him who has saved them scot-free. He that s... ...en occasion for their use and repair. At that time Klosterheim had stood a siege, which, from the defect of artillery, was at no time formidable in a ... ...acter, such as those of Prometheus, Hercules, &c. The era of T roy and its siege is doubtless by some centuries older than its usual chronologic date ...

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...ns, muskets, carabines, pistols, bullets, powder, swords, bayonets, battles, sieges, retreats, attacks, undermines, countermines, bombardments, sea fi... ... as sured him, “that I had seen them blow up a hundred enemies at once in a siege, and as many in a ship, and beheld the dead bodies drop down in pie...

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..., “what can they do to a poor officer’s widow? Bah! the times of sacks and sieges are over. We shall be let to go home quietly, or I may live pleasant... ...ught about. Undis- mayed by forty or fifty previous defeats, Glorvina laid siege to him. She sang Irish melodies at him unceasingly. She asked him so ...