"Siege" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... siege to you, ain't they? I guess they won't let your man give them the slip, this time—even though you ...
— The Faith Healer - A Play in Three Acts • William Vaughn Moody
... in a world that's not innocent; nor can we be passive when freedom is under siege. Without resources, diplomacy cannot succeed. Our security assistance programs help friendly governments defend themselves and give them confidence to work for peace. And I hope that you in the Congress will understand that, dollar for ...
— Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to the Present • Various
... fortune enters, envy lays siege to her and attacks her, and when she departs sorrow and ...
— Thoughts on Art and Life • Leonardo da Vinci
... had never been great had he been merely disagreeable. He had infinite wit in him. It was his carnal genius that saved him. He wrote sixty books, and two of them—the "Siege of the Town of Mansoul" and the "Pilgrim's Progress"—exceed all ever written for creative swiftness of imagination, racy English speech, sentences of literary art, cunningness in dialogue, satire, ridicule, ...
— Mystic London: - or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis • Charles Maurice Davies
... the home larder a loaf of bread and a clump of dried figs; and with these hoped to stand the siege of a week's solitude rather than fall in with the hard dealings of his own kind. He knew a cave, above where the goats found pasture, out of which a little red, rusty water trickled; there he thought to make himself a castle and dream dreams, and ...
— The Blue Moon • Laurence Housman
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