1 A knight unhorsed might renew the fight on foot with any other on the opposite side in the same predicament; but mounted horsemen were in that case forbidden to assail him.
2 This resistance only infuriated Mr. Sikes the more; who, dropping on his knees, began to assail the animal most furiously.
3 No wonder there had been some among the hunters who namelessly transported and allured by all this serenity, had ventured to assail it; but had fatally found that quietude but the vesture of tornadoes.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 133. The Chase—First Day. 4 Hitherto I had blamed only the servants, but now a terrible fear began to assail me.
5 There are moments when hideous surmises assail us like a cohort of furies, and violently force the partitions of our brains.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VIII—THE ENIGMA BECOMES DOUBLY MYSTERIOUS 6 Nor did they discover their mistake until the Romans, after subduing all the intervening nations, began to assail their power both in Spain and Sicily.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I. 7 If unassailed, we depart assailing no one.
8 For towns strongly fortified are not attacked by escalade, nor will the assailing army advance against them in weak numbers; but will endeavour, as in ancient times, to reduce them by regular siege.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XVII. 9 A cold qualm of guilt assailed Scarlett at the thought of Ellen's consternation, should she ever learn of her daughter's scandalous conduct.
10 Then, as she started back toward the driver's seat, a vast weariness assailed her and she swayed dizzily.
11 No feeling of horror or remorse assailed her at the memory.
12 Hardly had he finished the first lines when two other voices, drunken voices, assailed him, enraged foolish voices that stumbled over words and blurred them together.
13 He had checked his first movement of surprise, and stood silent, waiting for her to speak, while she paused a moment on the threshold, assailed by a rush of memories.
14 So soon as he recovered himself, the poor little negro was assailed by yells and execrations from the crew.
15 It was only one phase of the multitudinous emotions which had assailed her.