Assailant

Examples

• He is greatly irritated by the irony of Socrates, but his noisy and imbecile rage only lays him more and more open to the thrusts of his assailant. Plato. The Republic.
• When his second assailant fell, the woman clasped her children to her breast and wept for joy. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• After dragging at the assailant, he fell on the bank with him, and then there was another great crash, and then a splash, and all was done. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Besides, there had been no altercation; the assailant had come in so silently and suddenly, that she had been felled before she could look round. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Some fell dead, many wounded, and the yells of the discomfited assailants vibrated under the vaulted roof of the tunnel, as they retired in disorder. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• The aim of the assailants seemed to be to enter the mill, that of the defenders to beat them off. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• This so-called Blessington is, as I expected, well known at headquarters, and so are his assailants. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• The Scotch were then awakened and succeeded in defeating their assailants. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The therns were so engaged with their terrible assailants that now, if ever, escape should be comparatively easy. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• The assailants have won the barriers, have they not? Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• I add, that seven of these assailants were Knights of the Temple--and Sir Brian de Bois-Guilbert well knows the truth of what I tell you. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• But now the enemy opened fire upon their assailants, and made several attempts with their skirmishers to drive them away, but without avail. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Their assailants lurked everywhere. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The shouts of both parties augmented the fearful din, the assailants crying, Saint George for merry England! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Well, here we all are, said Phineas, peeping over the stone breast-work to watch the assailants, who were coming tumultuously up under the rocks. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• They readily agreed that the point of greatest danger was that opposite to the outwork of which the assailants had possessed themselves. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.

Editor: Solomon