“And there was a great famine in Samaria: and, behold, they besieged it, until an ass's head was sold for fourscore pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a cab of dove's dung for five pieces of silver.”
Bible
“And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came against the city, and his servants did besiege it.”
“And the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.”
“Immediately after the Tsunami, we were besieged by families looking for their children, but this is not happening any more.”
Waruni Bogahawatte
“I was happy to shoot Muslims (in the besieged Bosnian capital Sarajevo),”
Slobodan Milosevic
“I wish I had three times as many tickets. The symphony office has been besieged in the last few weeks, particularly the last few days, by people asking about tickets.”
Carolyn Valacich
“And they came and besieged him in Abel of Bethmaachah, and they cast up a bank against the city, and it stood in the trench: and all the people that were with Joab battered the wall, to throw it down.”
