1 Munro had again sunk into that sort of apathy which had beset him since his late overwhelming misfortunes, and from which he was apparently to be roused only by some new and powerful excitement.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 18 2 Now the beset him and made clamor.
3 At this cry a hysterical fear and dismay beset the troops.
4 You don't know, and you can't, the daily, hourly trials that beset a housekeeper from them, everywhere and every way.
5 I am beset here with neighbours that match your infidels, Sir Knight, in Holy Land.
6 And, in the meantime," said Locksley, "we will beset the place so closely, that not so much as a fly shall carry news from thence.
7 My Liege," said the Friar, "I humbly crave your pardon; and you would readily grant my excuse, did you but know how the sin of laziness has beset me.
8 It was a handsome old stucco hall, very elegantly appointed, for Winter was a bachelor and prided himself on his style; but the place was beset by collieries.
9 Bodily unrest and chill and weariness beset him, routing his thoughts.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 3 10 They surrounded it in a cluster, and hurried along as though beset.
11 The approach to this Kurtz grubbing for ivory in the wretched bush was beset by as many dangers as though he had been an enchanted princess sleeping in a fabulous castle.
12 That is to say, without mincing words, he invariably set before his hearers the sorrows and the difficulties which may confront a man, the trials and the temptations which may beset him.
13 Pierre, on unexpectedly becoming Count Bezukhov and a rich man, felt himself after his recent loneliness and freedom from cares so beset and preoccupied that only in bed was he able to be by himself.
14 The bigwigs, the most respected members of the club, beset the new arrivals.
15 Others with drawn swords have beset the doorway below and keep it in crowded column.