Citations:ensieged

encamped for a siege?

 * 1892, Michael Field, Stephania: A Trialogue, page 82:
 * O Italy, ensieged about my heart, I yield and make no terms! There is a noise, A pressure in the streets. Is Gerbert safe? It may be I imperilled him.

besieged

 * citations that could be an adjective or verb form; for those which are clearly the past tense of the verb ensiege, see Citations:ensiege


 * 1974, William Carlos Williams, The Embodiment of Knowledge, New Directions Publishing (ISBN 9780811206471), page 34:
 * ... from history through Eliot : He failed (beautifully - nauseously : &quot;Sweeny and the Nightingales” being a throwing on the screen of the desire) and fell back after a gallant attack, fell back into knowledge and its ensieged - besieged citadel ...
 * 2003, Christiania Whitehead, Castles of the Mind: A Study of Medieval Architectural Allegory
 * page 89: The ensieged castle of religious virtue achieves literary prominence around the beginning of the thirteenth century.
 * page 91: Time and time again, that stronghold is placed upon an ensieged footing and subjected to the sensual munitions of the devil :
 * 2008, Brian Lumley, The Taint and Other Novellas: A Cthulhu Mythos Collection, Solaris (ISBN 9781786181398)
 * For I produced Rising With Surtsey—a title that Derleth found very much to his taste—in December 1967, during the so-called Cold War, when my Military Police duties included patrolling the all-but ensieged city of Berlin.
 * 2009, Brian Lumley, Necroscope II: Vamphyri!, Macmillan (ISBN 9781466817715), page 31:
 * "And Thibor—-bring me those thumbs or I&#39;ll likely string you up by yours!” And that day at noon seven polyglot companies of men had set out from Kiev, reinforcements for the ensieged defensive positions on the Ros.