Citations:ensiege

English citations of ensiege

1953, Sir John Mandeville, Malcolm Letts, Travels: Text and Translations
And a little therefrom is a city that is called Hayla, the which Joshua ensieged and took. Beyond Jordan is the vale of Mambre, and it is right a fair vale. Also two mile from the hill that I spoke of before, where our Lord fasted forty days and forty ...

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And in that country and many other about it there is such a custom that, when two realms are at war and other party ensieges city, town or castle, then, instead of messengers to go between the parties, they ordain doves for to bear letters, and bind them about the necks of the doves, and then they let them fly ...