Both Uses of
assail
in
Dune
- Immediately, their nostrils were assailed by the odor of cinnamon—heavy and pungent.†
Book 1 *
- The odor of the place assailed him: unwashed bodies, distillate esters of reclaimed wastes, everywhere the sour effluvia of humanity with, over it all, a turbulence of spice and spicelike harmonics.†
Book 2
Definition:
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(assail) attack physically or verbally