beset

The transportation of certain kinds of seeds over long distances, especially on sea voyages, is often beset with difficulties.

Your men returned at noon yesterday and told me of the ambush in which they had been beset.

She was in no condition to be left alone, this delicate and fragile child, defenceless and beset.

But in time I overcame such difficulties as beset me, and soon learned to spend thousands of dollars with comparative ease.

He meant well, and tried to do well, and he did not struggle in vain against the trials and temptations that beset him.

Knowing that in the interval of getting phone connections they would be beset with furtive questions from a curious executive.

Human I am and have been, and human have been the temptations and trials that have beset me.

When will all the clouds that beset thee roll away from thy ken?

Two sailors now beset Jack on either side, and the German commander turned to renew the struggle.

The fact too that it was ebb-tide served to increase the obstacles that beset our progress.