Assailed

Examples

• He gnashed his teeth with rage, tore the hair from his head, and assailed with horrid imprecations the men who had been intrusted with the writ. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• He has over and over again solemnly declared that, until this scandal assailed him, he had never even heard of the Moonstone. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• The patent was infringed and assailed, but finally sustained by the highest courts of England. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Had Rachel reverted to this unlucky accident, at the critical moment when my place in her estimation was again, and far more seriously, assailed? Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• They assailed the walrus, the bear, and the whale. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Nothing was clear but that the unpopular steamer was assailed with reproaches on all sides. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Let him be prepared to be assailed by the odours of undrained gutters, ditches, and roads called streets, and escape, if he can, stumbling and falling into them. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The storming parties were assailed with cannon, with musketry, with pistols. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I am certain that the scandal which has assailed Mr. Luker, has not spared You. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• As the moments lessened, a restlessness and fear almost beyond the average assailed me. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• The moment he pulled the bell a deep loud barking assailed him from within the wall. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• He was gone; but this time no fear assailed her for she knew that he would return. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• In 216 B.C. he was assailed by a vastly superior Roman force under Varro at Cann?, and destroyed it utterly. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• But the paganism of these more primitive Arabs was already being assailed from several directions. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• For a whole day this little band had held the pass, assailed in front and rear by the whole force of the Persians. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• None of mark and distinction that I can behold from this station, said Rebecca; but, doubtless, the other side of the castle is also assailed. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• I have assailed thy resolution in vain, and mine own is fixed as the adamantine decrees of fate. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Savage beasts roared and growled; noises, hideous and weird, assailed their ears. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• The figure like myself was assailed, and my valise was in its hand. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• The last annoyance that has assailed me is the annoyance of being called upon to write this Narrative. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The sound was curiously flawed by the wind; and I was listening, and thinking how the wind assailed and tore it, when I heard a footstep on the stair. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• When he reached Ashland he was assailed by the enemy in force. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.

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