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 Norman Bentwich 1927

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 Bentwich, Norman 1914

"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.

New York Review: The Collected Stories Of Lydia Davis 2010

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.

He Don't Know Him 2010

"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.

New York Review: The Collected Stories Of Lydia Davis 2010

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

Victory by Longbow Ronald F. Maxwell 2009

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 2006

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

Napoleon on Madison 2006

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 Thucydides 2005

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 2004