Both Uses of
onslaught
in
Anna Karenina
- For a moment there would come a lull in the storm, but then it would swoop down again with such onslaughts that it seemed impossible to stand against it.†
Part 1 *
- The first onslaught of jealousy, once lived through, could never come back again, and even the discovery of infidelities could never now affect her as it had the first time.†
Part 2
Definition:
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(onslaught) a powerful attack
or:
a sudden and enormous amount of something that must be handled -- such as trouble, people or communications