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Charles Moore, once employed by Black as editor of the Daily Telegraph, referred to the "siege-engine prose" of the letters Black would write for publication.

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Charles Moore, once employed by Black as editor of the Daily Telegraph, referred to the "siege-engine prose" of the letters Black would write for publication.

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Spells, or perhaps some device that would rival those of drowned Atlantis and make a siege-engine of Khitai seem a child's toy.

Conan and The Gods of The Mountain Green, Roland 1993

Smaller stones flew as if hurled from a siege-engine.

Conan and The Gods of The Mountain Green, Roland 1993

Their small palace was on the lower slopes of Mount Placos in a forest famous for its timber; the great Scaean Gates of Ilium were built from Cilician timber, as were the siege-engine towers sitting on their wheels behind Greek lines less than two miles away.

Ilium Simmons, Dan 1981

All but one of the guards at the great siege-engine were enjoying a deep sleep in the several tents at its base.

Icerigger Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1974

At that day, however it be now, if any one wished to defend the castle, it would not have been easy to take; for the traitor enclosed it as soon as he planned the treason with treble walls and moats, and had strengthened the walls behind with sharpened stakes, so that they should not be thrown down by any siege-engine.

Cligés. English de Troyes Chr��tien

For what kingdom of the East did not send its men to war, bringing every kind of siege-engine, which I did not mention earlier, and everything necessary to besiege a city?

The Deeds of God Through the Franks Abbot of Nogent-sous-Coucy Guibert 1088

The Encyclopaedia, it has been said, was no peaceful storehouse in which scholars and thinkers of all kinds could survey the riches they had acquired; it was a gigantic siege-engine and armoury of weapons of attack. [

Diderot and the Encyclopaedists Morley, John, 1838-1923 1905

The Encyclopædia, it has been said, was no peaceful storehouse in which scholars and thinkers of all kinds could survey the riches they had acquired; it was a gigantic siege-engine and armoury of weapons of attack. [

Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol 1 of 2) John Morley 1880