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So apparently beseiged is FedEx with unexpected deliveries of Christmas gift that a package just arrived in an unmarked white panel van with two-day-old temporary tags attached.
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Paris was again beseiged by the Northmen and succoured by Eudes, count of Paris, in 885. fleets in which they entered harbours and river mouths, and devastated all the country round.
A Parallel History of France and England; Consisting of Outlines and Dates 1871
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All that remained of the beseiged were the captain, the engineer, Kallatra, Vveryl, and Tong.
The Dragon Lensman Kyle, David, 1919- 1981
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Page 164: Typo corrected; replaced "beseiged" with "besieged": their dark and narrow doors, and slew each other as did God's chosen people when besieged by the son of Vespasian.
Shadows of Shasta Joaquin Miller 1875
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They can also become defensive or difficult to be around as they are suddenly beseiged by everyone they once knew, looking for a touch.
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In turn the large Japanese corporations were beseiged by the Koreans and the Chinese and the large American corporations withered away.
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This great two-minute film sees New York City beseiged by waves of early arcade characters, from Pac-Man to Space Invaders.
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Before any Advance Reader Copies ever reached the hands of any independent bookstores across the land, before the hardcover first edition of The Savage Detectives reached any bookstore shelves, the literary world was beseiged with a “historical aura” of the “life” of Bolano that made him out to be the unearthed-until-then, modern day literary equivalent of Hemingway.
mark terrill | part II germany « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2009
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A local town in GA, beseiged by burglaries, passed an ordinance requiring every homeowner to have a gun in the home.
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Our Out of Control County Attorney 2010
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He said although Labour may have lost some of the Guardian classes due to civil liberties issues, the real electoral problem for Labour was the loss of the mainstream middle class that felt beseiged by squeezed earnings, immigration and benefit cheats.
Working-class voters felt let down by Labour, says Liam Byrne 2010
uselessness commented on the word beseiged
Ooh, spelling! Spelling! ;-)
May 25, 2007
arby commented on the word beseiged
1) I am an idiot!!
2) There's no way to edit it now, right? All I can do is create a new entry for besieged?
May 26, 2007
jennarenn commented on the word beseiged
As far as I know. We've all done it before--no worries!
May 26, 2007
oroboros commented on the word beseiged
Arby; you can delete the word from your list and delete your citation, but because there are other non-deletable (by you) citations the word won't be deleted from the site. You will however erase your paternity of this problem child for anyone else's discovery! If the other comments are deleted by their authors, the word disappears from the site completely.
May 26, 2007
arby commented on the word beseiged
OK, original citation moved to besieged. I always did have a problem with the "i before e" rule, despite the mnemonic.
May 29, 2007
uselessness commented on the word beseiged
The problem for me is that the mnemonic has too many exceptions to be useful. Yeah, "i before e." But not after "c." And not when it sounds like "ay" as in neighbor and weigh. And I think there are more rules that didn't make the cut, only I can't remember them right now.
May 29, 2007
arby commented on the word beseiged
Dude, me too. What the hell good is it to have a mnemonic if it doesn't actually help you remember the whole rule?
Also, I can never spell mnemonic. I always want it to have two "mn" combos - mnemnonic - or have the regular 'm' and the 'mn' reversed - memnonic. Can we say dyslexic?
June 21, 2007
reesetee commented on the word beseiged
Arby, I think I like your "mnemonic" spellings better than the correct version!
June 21, 2007
arby commented on the word beseiged
Yay! Makes me feel slightly less dumb for not being able to spell it.
I have some other words that I mentally inserted extra letters in when reading them for some bizarre reason - for example mutilate I thought was spelled "mutiliate" for the longest time.
Heh, then it would rhyme with "humiliate".
June 27, 2007