besieger

• “Josephus, following probably a Roman authority, gives an account of the fortifications of Jerusalem from the point of view of the besieger, which is confirmed in large part by modern research. [”

  Josephus

• “Besiege" takes a preposition, "by," and an object: you can't be besieged without a besieger, but you will never find out the identity of the besieger inside the barricades that protect you from whatever it is.”

  The Huffington Post: New York Review: The Collected Stories Of Lydia Davis

• “Appalachee troops also raided Cornwallis's supply lines so often that after less than a month it became quite clear that Cornwallis was the besieged, not the besieger.”

  Fictionaut: He Don't Know Him

• “In the space of a year, Hook has gone from the besieged to the besieger, from the defender to the attacker.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Victory by Longbow

• “Every besieger promises the commoners that his only enemy is the aristocrat in the citadel: such a maneuver weakens enemy will to resist.”

  New Dan Simmons Story

• “(One besieger is felled by a tome titled "Projet de Fraternisation avec les Bedouins").”

  Napoleon on Madison

• “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

• “I have sat down before it as a besieger before a fortress, to make my approaches with the same systematic regularity.”

  Journals of expeditions of discovery into Central Australia, and overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound, in the years 1840-1

• “Ralph looked forward to a fourth, a fifth, a tenth besieger; he had no conviction she would stop at a third.”

  The Portrait of a Lady

• “The constancy of the besieged has also often displeased and dismayed the besieger.”

  The Art of War

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