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vb. (en-simple pastlay siege)
Usage examples of "laid siege".
Prince Maurice, who was now three and twenty years old, and devoted to martial pursuits and the cause of his countrymen, after consultation with Sir Francis Vere, laid siege to the town and made a furious assault upon it on the water aide.
Wolfe laid siege but from the end of June to the twelfth of September made little headway.
They laid siege to a town called Multan, which is located about 175 miles southwest of Lahore, on one of the chief tributaries of the Indus.
The last, my poor brother's long-chosen heir, though the youngest of all eleven, died with all his retainers when piratespresumed to be Irish slaversattacked his island home, took away all the common folk, and laid siege to his tower.
And then Merlin said unto Arthur, These eleven kings have more on hand than they are ware of, for the Saracens are landed in their countries, more than forty thousand, that burn and slay, and have laid siege at the castle Wandesborow, and make great destruction.
Attila, having entered Italy, laid siege to Aquileia, where he remained without any obstacle for two years, wasting the country round, and dispersing the inhabitants.