beleaguer

The city's once extensive library system has been beleaguered by financial difficulties.

And so the Lord took extra pains to beleaguer him.

Her tone suggested she'd been beleaguered with grumbles the better part of the day.

The known could beleaguer her more than the unknown.

It was as if an army of shadows had beleaguered a phantom fortress.

And now he was back at Elmwood to beleaguer her again.

Should we have to beleaguer it we may count upon some help from within.'

In 1325 Polish, in 1432 Hussite troops beleaguered the city.

For a brief while in the morning, I had a respite from the feeling that I was being beleaguered by women.

The Croton-Harmon district has been beleaguered in recent years.

We were crazy about being beleaguered together, but even Héloise and Abelard needed a little fresh air once in a while.

Here the army of durrani soldiers beleaguered the Chiniot fort.

"Don't beleaguer me," Joel said with widened eyes of innocence, "I believe!"

In the past, the committee has been beleaguered by charges that one member, Mitchell Block, was in a questionable ethical position.

And nothing any reviewer mutters is likely to deprive either side of the precious feeling of being beleaguered by the barbarians.

But Mr. Clinton's hopes for golf may be dashed by the heavy rains and flooding that have beleaguered the island this week.

Until midafternoon, reporters beleaguered the office of Commissioner Ralph Weston.

And they have been beleaguered further by the hostile holdout of their star goaltender, Ron Hextall.

And yet I cannot think that any Scottish or French rovers could land in such force as to beleaguer the fortalice.

The incident struck a raw nerve for Iraqis, who have been beleaguered by dozens of suicide bombings that have killed thousands of civilians.

Father Malachy is confronted with interview requests from journalists, and pilgrims beleaguer the church, hoping to meet the miracle-working priest.

The buildings beleaguered him with sexual puns: spires, passageways, shadowed plazas with white-water fountains.

One had not expected Cro-Magnons from New Jersey to beleaguer one in the supposed safety of one's home."

Moreover, I have reason to believe that my men who were sent ashore on special service have been beleaguered in a tower which can be seen from the ship.

The marquess wondered with a sinking in his stomach if Sir Archibald would beleaguer the company with Tory tales.