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Harrying

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Harrying meaning

present participle and gerund of harry

Example sentences (11)

Did plenty of running and harrying too.

Reform, a party riven with faction practically as much as Center, may find an era of silence works better in this case than continually harrying.

Harrying and pressing are just as crucial, as well as being able to explode on the counter-attack.

Covering and harrying fire also don’t provide benefits against you.

He ruthlessly put down the various risings, culminating in the Harrying of the North in late 1069 and early 1070 that devastated parts of northern England.

In 1072, with the Harrying of the North completed and his position again secure, William of Normandy came north with an army and a fleet.

The Harrying of Buchan in 1308 was ordered by Bruce to make sure all Comyn family support was extinguished.

The inhabitants of the North and Scotland never warmed to the Normans following the Harrying of the North (1069–1070), where William, according to the Anglo Saxon Chronicle utterly "ravaged and laid waste that shire".

These were destroyed in 1069 and rebuilt by William about the time of his ravaging Northumbria in what is called the " Harrying of the North " where he destroyed everything from York to Durham.

They tried to take back York, but the Normans burnt it before they could. citation What followed was the Harrying of the North ordered by William.

Witzin died in battle and Charlemagne avenged him by harrying the Eastphalians on the Elbe.