beleaguered

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“
I feared that you were beleaguered, and started that evening with six hundred men-at-arms.

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  • Leighton had never seen him look so beleaguered, and it stopped him in his tracks. —  Anthology - My Scandalous Bride
  • If beleaguered, as every man of the command must be either engaged or held on the alert, they will be exhausted and worn down in a few days and nights of such service as they would then have to undergo. —  Abraham Lincoln, A History, Volume 2
  • The move comes as the beleaguered handheld devices company gears for battle against the iPhone maker with its Palm Pre smartphone. —  Home:blogs
  • This caused a delay in Winehouse's US visa request and meant that she could only appear at the Grammy Awards in beleaguered, live-by-satellite form. —  Music news, reviews, comment and features | guardian.co.uk
  • Coupled with these, the RBI's easing monetary stance, signalling a lower interest rate regime, also is good news for the beleaguered sector. —  The Times of India
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