1 There was desperate fighting at New Hope Church, eleven days of continuous fighting, with every Yankee assault bloodily repulsed.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret MitcheGet Context In CHAPTER XVII 2 Instead of continuing the direct assault, he swung his army in a wide circle again and tried to come between the Confederates and Atlanta.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret MitcheGet Context In CHAPTER XVIII 3 And still puffing at his pipe, Stubb cheered on his crew to the assault.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleGet Context In CHAPTER 61. Stubb Kills a Whale. 4 , in May for assault on a white girl was innocent; that the deed was done by a white man who had since disappeared.
Southern Horrors By Ida B. Wells-BarnettGet Context In IV 5 A white and colored man were implicated in the assault upon a white girl.
Southern Horrors By Ida B. Wells-BarnettGet Context In VII 6 It was charged that the white man paid the colored boy to make the assault, which he did on the public highway in broad day time, and was lynched.
Southern Horrors By Ida B. Wells-BarnettGet Context In VII 7 Then he stood before the sergeant's desk and gave his name and address, and saw a charge of assault and battery entered against him.
8 "You would have done well to think about them before you committed the assault," said the judge dryly, as he turned to look at the next prisoner.
9 Against this assault, the besieged could only oppose the imperfect and hasty preparations of a fortress in the wilderness.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperGet Context In CHAPTER 15 10 Your commandant is a brave man, and well qualified to repel my assault.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperGet Context In CHAPTER 15 11 Mr. Watson inquired who saw the assault committed.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick DouglassGet Context In CHAPTER X 12 It was as if he planned to drag the youth by the ear on to the assault.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen CraneGet Context In Chapter 19 13 Perhaps, at this new assault the men recalled the fact that they had been named mud diggers, and it made their situation thrice bitter.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen CraneGet Context In Chapter 22 14 He bent like an oak at the approach of a storm, like a soldier at the approach of an assault.
Les Misérables (V1) By Victor HugoGet Context In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—A TEMPEST IN A SKULL 15 His conscience inured to every assault of destiny, might have appeared to be forever impregnable.
Les Misérables (V4) By Victor HugoGet Context In BOOK 15: CHAPTER I—A DRINKER IS A BABBLER