All 9 Uses of
assault
in
Gone with the Wind
- The hospitals stank of gangrene, the odor assaulting her nostrils long before the doors were reached, a sickish sweet smell that clung to her hands and hair and haunted her in her dreams.†
Chpt 2.8
- They could not break the gray lines by direct assault and so, under cover of night, they marched through the mountain passes in a semicircle, hoping to come upon Johnston's rear and cut the railroad behind him at Resaca, fifteen miles below Dalton.†
Chpt 3.17
- There was desperate fighting at New Hope Church, eleven days of continuous fighting, with every Yankee assault bloodily repulsed.†
Chpt 3.17
- Instead of continuing the direct assault, he swung his army in a wide circle again and tried to come between the Confederates and Atlanta.†
Chpt 3.18
- He assaulted the Yankees fiercely at Peachtree Creek, hurling his men from their rifle pits against the blue lines where Sherman's men outnumbered him more than two to one.†
Chpt 3.18
- He assaulted the Yankees on the east, he assaulted them on the west.†
Chpt 3.18 *
- He assaulted the Yankees on the east, he assaulted them on the west.†
Chpt 3.18
- Then the bushes beside them crashed apart under heavy hooves and a low moaning bawl assaulted their ears.†
Chpt 3.24
- Close to the back step of one cabin, she found a short row of radishes and hunger assaulted her suddenly.†
Chpt 3.25
Definition:
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(assault) to attack someone or something physically or verbally; or to threaten violence