The Only Use of
assail
in
Frankenstein
- But I have one want which I have never yet been able to satisfy, and the absence of the object of which I now feel as a most severe evil, I have no friend, Margaret: when I am glowing with the enthusiasm of success, there will be none to participate my joy; if I am assailed by disappointment, no one will endeavour to sustain me in dejection.†
Chpt Intr.
Definition:
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(assail) attack physically or verbally