siegeworks

Just as when laying siege to a city and battering its walls one digs one's trenches closer and closer and thus slowly gains land, so in the spiritual conquest of that powerful and enchanted [encantado] land God is laying the siegeworks of evangelism, approaching bit by bit until the walls of resistance crash to the ground.

How Taiwan Became Chinese 2006

Where had the Sertorian forces come from when none of those who had fought on the battlefield, even the hidden cavalry, had moved from the siegeworks before Lauro?

Fortune's Favorites McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1993

All they had to work with were their hands and their legionary's digging tools; but there were over ten thousand pairs of hands and more than sufficient tools, and their centurions taught them the shortcuts and knacks in building siegeworks.

Fortune's Favorites McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1993

Earth from the ditch was piled into a second wall, and in the large No Man's Land which existed inside these siegeworks no tree or object tall enough to serve as a battering ram was left standing.

Fortune's Favorites McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1993

At Norba the same sort of exercise went on, though Norba did not require such massive siegeworks.

Fortune's Favorites McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1993

Having finished, Caesar turned his back and looked at the receding siegeworks which were making a ruin of the outskirts of Mitylene.

Fortune's Favorites McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1993

When these siegeworks were completed, the only way in or out of Praeneste would be the snake-paths through the mountains behind.

Fortune's Favorites McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1993

When Ahenobarbus taxed him in the House with deliberate destruction of Roman property — siegeworks and camps especially — Lucullus simply looked down his nose and said he thought the new governor would want to start in his own way.

The First Man in Rome McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1990

Shadowspinner's camps and siegeworks surrounded the city.

Dreams of Steel Cook, Glen 1990

"The siegeworks at Torcadino, " he said, -or most of the heavy work there, at any rate, was completed months ago.

Dancer Of Gor Norman, John, 1931- 1986