Meanings of beleaguering in English

At Camp Bowie the Apaches were found beleaguering the post.

The beleaguering force outside the fort, he said, must outnumber ours two to one.

What was the disposition of the beleaguering force?

Several French, English, and Navarrois cavaliers resorted on this occasion to the camp of the beleaguering army.

One might have imagined he saw before him the tented camps of a beleaguering host of Brobdingnagians.

With their usual improvidence, they had not food enough to last a beleaguering army for a week.

I longed for my ultrophone equipment, with which I might have established communication with the beleaguering American forces.

Henri, meanwhile, who was closely beleaguering Rouen, was again outgeneralled by Parma, and had to raise the siege.

Then you get to where you care so f**king much that it gets goddamn beleaguering, you know?

Immense volumes of smoke, thick and suffocating, instantaneously rolled over the city and the beleaguering camp, converting day into night.

To the military student the siege may possess importance as marking a transitional epoch in the history of the beleaguering science.

An intricate web of laws and custom and tradition ensured a perpetual vigilance and a perpetual defence against the beleaguering sea.

But their stones and their strength were at length exhausted, and Taras resolved to cut his way through the beleaguering forces.

Kassala was in the hands of the British, and the forces that had been beleaguering it had been defeated, with heavy loss.

Rochelle was in arms against the King; and Richelieu, with his royal ward, was beleaguering it with the whole strength of the kingdom.

At present the enemy, who are now under the command of Colonel Law, who has succeeded D'Auteuil, are contenting themselves with beleaguering the place.