To shut themselves up in Granite House, to be besieged there, to remain there for weeks, for months even, since they had an abundance of provisions?
Cyrus Harding evidently could not resist fifty ruffians, all well armed, who, either by penetrating by main force into Granite House, or by starving out the besieged, could obtain from them what they wanted.
But Heaven had reserved them for a strange destiny, and after having, on the 20th of March, escaped from Richmond, besieged by the troops of General Ulysses Grant, they found themselves seven thousand miles from the capital of Virginia, which was the principal stronghold of the South, during the terrible War of Secession.
They had capital times fishing, scrambling over the rocks, playing ball and tennis, and rainy days they took possession of the studio opposite, drew up the portcullis, and gallantly defended the castle, which some of the others besieged with old umbrellas for shields, bats for battering-rams, and bunches of burrs for cannon-balls.
"It's like being in a besieged castle," Phyllis said; "look at the arrows of the foe striking against the battlements!
The next year the Mongols went north and looted the Jin "eastern capital", and in 1213 they besieged the "central capital".
The address of the cat's new owners is being kept a secret out of fears that the newly-enriched moggy will be besieged by fortune hunters and con men.
Fey may be besieged by haters but she refuses to let them get to her.
Bana Alabed, the 7-year-old girl whose tweets from besieged Aleppo drew the world's attention to the human toll of the Syria conflict, will publish her memoir this fall.
Ever since, he has been besieged by harassment, with many strangers criticizing him as a "shameless person who just want publicity and easy money.
Yet there are sufficient echoes to trouble America's besieged elites.
Another dabbler, Claude Monet, fleeing besieged Paris in 1870, fell in love with London's vaporous, mutating clouds.
Since the twin emblems for the Olympics and Paralympics were revealed on July 24, their creator, Kenjiro Sano, has been besieged with allegations that he copied the design from a theatre in the Belgian city of Liege.
East India was besieged by an enemy who would not retire until he had received six hundred dollars.
A great city was besieged, and its inhabitants were called together to consider the best means of protecting it from the enemy.
EAST INDIA was besieged by an enemy who would not retire until he had received six hundred dollars.
Many of them lost their lives while rescuing 7,000 besieged British soldiers.
