Both Uses of
assail
in
War and Peace
- Having repeated these words the captain wiped his eyes and gave himself a shake, as if driving away the weakness which assailed him at this touching recollection.†
Chpt 11 *
- When similar doubts had assailed him before, they had been the result of his own wrongdoing, and at the bottom of his heart he had felt that relief from his despair and from those doubts was to be found within himself.†
Chpt 12
Definition:
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(assail) attack physically or verbally