We pity the gringos if they should attempt to beleaguer this impregnable fortress.
"Ahead of the Army"
W. O. Stoddard
I have read, in the marvellous heart of man, That strange and mystic scroll, That an army of phantoms vast and wan beleaguer the human soul.
"The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow"
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
When the waters beleaguer the home of the peasant in Holland, the sea or the neighbouring river having swept down the dyke that protected the country, most pressing is it then for the peasant to safeguard his cattle, his grain, his effects; but wisest to fly to the top of the dyke, summoning those who live with him, and from thence meet the flood, and do battle.
"Wisdom and Destiny"
Maurice Maeterlinck