All 5 Uses of
assail
in
The Count of Monte Cristo
- 's half-filled snuff-box,—scarcely had this occurred when Marseilles began, in spite of the authorities, to rekindle the flames of civil war, always smouldering in the south, and it required but little to excite the populace to acts of far greater violence than the shouts and insults with which they assailed the royalists whenever they ventured abroad.†
Chpt 13-14
- "Too true, too true!" ejaculated Caderousse, almost suffocated by the contending passions which assailed him, "the poor old man did die."†
Chpt 25-26
- Her innocence had kept her in ignorance of the dangers that might assail a young girl of her age.†
Chpt 29-30 *
- In vain did Franz endeavor to forget the many perplexing thoughts which assailed him; in vain did he court the refreshment of sleep.†
Chpt 33-34
- There, again, Monte Cristo was assailed by a multitude of thoughts.†
Chpt 113-114
Definition:
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(assail) attack physically or verbally