Having lain before it as a besieger for upwards of two months, its shops, its trade, its public buildings and places of amusement were to me objects of, comparatively speaking, little interest or curiosity.
"The Campaigns of the British Army at Washington and New Orleans 1814-1815"
G. R. Gleig
But why he would not, no one knew, neither the starving City, nor the patient besieger outside.
"The Missourian"
Eugene P. (Eugene Percy) Lyle
So that the besieger in name has become, at least from the land side, the besieged in reality; as we are prevented by their cavalry from even going for any distance into the country.
"The History of the Peloponnesian War"
Thucydides