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  • It didn't just smell—the odor assailed her like the Force in a Star Wars movie.   (source)
    assailed = assaulted or overwhelmed
  • They only laughed and poked sticks at him, which he promptly assailed with his teeth till he realized that that was what they wanted.   (source)
    assailed = attacked
  • To have his faith assailed perked him up; he was livelier and less meek.†   (source)
  • Heat assailed Eragon like a physical blow as he dismounted Snowfire onto the baked, cracked ground.†   (source)
  • He had told her he'd be late today, detained at a meeting of the Literary Club, but he was a terrible liar and guilt assailed him now.†   (source)
  • Kassad heard the rush of air through aching eardrums and almost gagged as a thick, rich stench assailed him.†   (source)
  • He was perceptive enough to know it was not an acceptance, and again doubt assailed him.†   (source)
  • One afternoon, when she was sewing on the porch, she was assailed by the certainty that she would be sitting in that place, in the same position, and under the same light when they brought her the news of Rebeca's death.†   (source)
  • Immediately, their nostrils were assailed by the odor of cinnamon—heavy and pungent.†   (source)
  • Clary stared at him, then spun around as the rending screech of metal assailed her ears.†   (source)
  • And now that it was over, Eva squatted there wondering why she had come all the way out there to free his stools, and what was she doing down on her haunches with her beloved baby boy warmed by her body in the almost total darkness, her shins and teeth freezing, her nostrils assailed.†   (source)
  • Migraines assailed me in February 1974, bringing dizziness, nausea, and an encompassing sense of weakness.†   (source)
  • My mother's beauty literally assailed me.†   (source)
  • An anxious doubt assailed him.†   (source)
  • I do not know the reason for your flight, and therefore I do not know by what means your pursuers will assail you.†   (source)
  • Hygeia was assailing Piper with health care questions.†   (source)
  • He was suddenly assailed by a bewildering cacophony of voices.†   (source)
  • They are probably assailing it by now.†   (source)
  • He came to hate them vehemently, and to assail them with every kind of invective he could think of, not because they were irrelevant but for exactly the opposite reason.†   (source)
  • They'd start hollering somewhere in the middle of the house, assail each other furiously, then retire to their corners and start drinking.†   (source)
  • Washington newspapers assail him as the war's ultimate villain and note that any "kindly feeling" toward the South or its sympathizers has disappeared, thanks to his actions.†   (source)
  • The large fieldstone church imparted an anchor's mass, an object incapable of being moved no matter the magnitude of problem that assailed its doors.†   (source)
  • (He hoists a huge drumstick on his plate, then assails a mountain of potato salad) Who among you knows the defendant†   (source)
  • — Aware of the overwhelming temptations which assail a man permanently isolated in his deceit, Leamas resorted to the course which armed him best; even when he was alone, he compelled himself to live with the personality he had assumed.†   (source)
  • Even as all five of my senses were assailed, I managed to recall Ben's words.†   (source)
  • Charles had moved into a shed where his nostrils would not be assailed by the immaculate but painful smells of lye and soda and ammonia and yellow soap.†   (source)
  • One day in October, 1867, she was assailed by the memory of herself as a young girl—a field hand, slowly piecing together a patchwork quilt, her fingers clumsy at first, unaccustomed to holding a needle—because she learned of the death of John Tubman to whom she had been married.†   (source)
  • The oceans rose and assailed us.†   (source)
  • Couldn't she know what she did to me with this concubine's speech, with those foul, priceless words which assailed like sharp spears the bastion of my own Christian gentility, with its aching repressions and restraints?†   (source)
  • Then the pain is no longer sharp but dull, and this too is with you always, so that you think of food many times a day and each time a terrible sickness assails you, and because you know this you try to avoid the thought, but you cannot, it is with you.†   (source)
  • Utopia was here at last: its novelty had not yet been assailed by the supreme enemy of all Utopias-boredom.†   (source)
  • The thoughts to which he had become accustomed in the past few years assailed him with alarming strength.†   (source)
  • It will require manly efforts, sir, and they must expect to meet with prejudices that will assail them from every quarter.†   (source)
  • She hid her distaste as the heat and smell of their bodies assailed her.†   (source)
  • Until Lord Redwyne brings his fleet up, we lack the ships to assail Dragonstone.†   (source)
  • But it was also New Englanders who had assailed slavery in the most vehement terms.†   (source)
  • Without warning, light flooded Eragon's eyes, and an onslaught of noise assailed his ears.†   (source)
  • Whenever Moody turned ugly, however, the doubts assailed me.†   (source)
  • If we make no answer, the Enemy may move Men of his rule to assail King Brand, and Dain also.†   (source)
  • The assailing hosts halted, foiled by the silent menace of rock and wall.†   (source)
  • A host of unanswerable questions assailed him.†   (source)
  • Milo assailed them incredulously at the top of his voice.†   (source)
  • Now pain assailed him, and he felt cold.†   (source)
  • And another party assails the gates of the city!†   (source)
  • The thought came to assail me: Maybe not.†   (source)
  • Why should he think it not vain to assail us, if we have it?†   (source)
  • Again he was assailed as a coward and traitor.†   (source)
  • I love the gusto with which you assail life, Corwin.†   (source)
  • He sought to bind the energies that assailed him, but found nothing with which to grapple.†   (source)
  • 'I am a herald and ambassador, and may not be assailed!' he cried.†   (source)
  • Ultrasonic screams assailed his ears, but somehow were partly deadened.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • He sat behind the wheel—with apparent jolts of extreme discomfort assailing him from the region of his lower back—and commanded the faculty to push him.†   (source)
  • The doors could not be opened—nor could the headmaster be removed from the wreckage; such spasms assailed his lower back that he could not contort himself into the necessary posture to make an exit from the car through the space where the windshield had been.†   (source)
  • Indeed he is in great fear, not knowing what mighty one may suddenly appear, wielding the Ring, and assailing him with war, seeking to cast him down and take his place.†   (source)
  • The storm still assailed the tree, accompanied by a thudding rain that matched the pounding in his head.†   (source)
  • The Seeker was planted on the sidewalk next to my open trunk, assailing me with snide questions and comments whenever I was in hearing distance.†   (source)
  • A sudden itch in Roran's throat forced him to cough again and again, and he curled over the table until his forehead touched the wood, grimacing as waves of pain assailed him from his back, his shoulder, and his mangled mouth.†   (source)
  • All around him the wights flailed at the black wings and sharp beaks that assailed them, falling in an eerie silence with never a grunt nor cry.†   (source)
  • But now, with the most tumultuous decade of the century between him and ourselves, a decade in which reason has been assailed and assaulted beyond the wildest beliefs of the fifties, I think that in this Chautauqua based on his discoveries we can understand a little better what he was talking about — a solution for it all — if only that were true — so much of it's lost there's no way of knowing.†   (source)
  • At least five, so far as Roran could tell, had died when soldiers they had thought slain had returned to assail them.†   (source)
  • Doubts assailed my mind.†   (source)
  • "There must be, however," Adams responded, "more employment for the press in favor of the government than there has been, or the sour, angry, peevish, fretful, lying paragraphs which assail it on every side will make an impression on many weak and ignorant people."†   (source)
  • When the main crowd of worshipers reached the short bridge spanning the pond, the ragged sound of honky-tonk music assailed them.†   (source)
  • Already the mayor was feeling the heat; you could tell, because his surrogates on the council and the boards of Estimate and Education had begun quietly assailing Kwang for his interest in providing tax vouchers for bilingual education, to have English Only in the schools but subsidize native language study outside.†   (source)
  • A foul stench assailed her nose, but she paid it no more mind than she did the sullen ceaseless pounding of that drum, boom doom boom doom boom doom.†   (source)
  • The dragons immediately began to lash out and assail the minds of the people within the city, attacking without regard for who was friend or who was foe.†   (source)
  • Simultaneously, four lady pasdar, in their uniforms of black chadors, assailed me, screaming in my face.†   (source)
  • AT THE START of every new venture of importance in his life, John Adams was invariably assailed by grave doubts.†   (source)
  • No, unless I am mistaken, their plan is for Eragon and Saphira to meet Thorn and Murtagh in the air while the soldiers assail our position here.†   (source)
  • Eragon floated in a state of heightened awareness, his senses thrumming with the multitude of new sights, sounds, smells, and feelings that assailed him.†   (source)
  • But if I am a murderer on that account, then all the House of Eorl is stained with murder; for they have fought many wars, and assailed many who defied them.†   (source)
  • Not once did they feel the sense of present evil that had assailed them before the attack in the dell.†   (source)
  • A multitude of questions assailed me, and I determined not to get into the car with these strange, excitable women until I received some answers.†   (source)
  • Opposite this was a long bar, a fortress with raised drawbridges that protected casks of lager, ale, and stout from the horde of thirsty men who assailed it from all sides.†   (source)
  • And they made a truce with the proud peoples of the North, who often had assailed us, men of fierce valour, but our kin from afar off, unlike the wild Easterlings or the cruel Haradrim.†   (source)
  • The "thundering of coaches, chariots, chaises, wagons, drays and the whole fraternity of noise almost continually assails our ears," complained a visiting physician.†   (source)
  • In a lower voice, he said, "Ganga," and the pressure from the Eldunari assailing Eragon's mind vanished, leaving him free to think as he would.†   (source)
  • Her husband, unusually tall for an Iranian, spent most of the evening mumbling prayers and chanting portions of the Koran while, all about us, the now-familiar din of chattering relatives assailed our ears.†   (source)
  • The President was assailed in print as never before, and nowhere more than in the Aurora, which was edited by young Benjamin Franklin Bache, the grandson of Franklin who had once been John Quincy's schoolmate in France.†   (source)
  • So great an army had never issued from that vale since the days of Isildur's might; no host so fell and strong in arms had yet assailed the fords of Anduin; and yet it was but one and not the greatest of the hosts that Mordor now sent forth.†   (source)
  • A fresh cloud of his musk drifted over Nasuada, and even though she was hard with anger, her joints weakened and she was assailed by thoughts of bowers draped in silk, goblets of cherry wine, and the mournful dwarf songs she had often heard echoing through the empty halls of Tronjheim.†   (source)
  • "Now!" roared Barst, and throughout the square, hundreds of soldiers ran forward and assailed the elves, forcing them to defend themselves.†   (source)
  • But Sauron of Mordor assailed them, and they made the Last Alliance of Elves and Men, and the hosts of Gil-galad and Elendil were mustered in Arnor.†   (source)
  • Eragon's throat constricted as he spoke of Brom's last hours, of the cool sandstone cave where he had lain, of the feelings of helplessness that had assailed Eragon as he watched Brom slipping away, of the smell of death that had pervaded the dry air, of Brom's final words, of the sandstone tomb Eragon had made with magic, and of how Saphira had transformed it into pure diamond.†   (source)
  • His worries returned in force and assailed him without reprieve, gnawing at his mind like a host of rats, each bite of which seemed to infect him with a creeping poison.†   (source)
  • Only the waning might of Gondor stands now between him and a march in power along the coasts into the North; and if he comes, assailing the White Towers and the Havens, hereafter the Elves may have no escape from the lengthening shadows of Middle-earth.†   (source)
  • The party was assailed by Orcs in a high pass of the Misty Mountains as they went towards Wilderland; and so it happened that Bilbo was lost for a while in the black orc-mines deep under the mountains, and there, as he groped in vain in the dark, he put his hand on a ring, lying on the floor of a tunnel.†   (source)
  • Lone men, riding wild, brought word of foes assailing their east-borders, of orc-hosts marching in the Wold of Rohan.†   (source)
  • "Darling, what do you—" But "Shut up!" he roars, and now again the words flow forth as upon a spillway, undammed, a babbling continuation of the jumbled semicoherence he has assailed her with since they left the Pink Palace well over an hour before.†   (source)
  • As had always happened to him whenever he was writing, a host of ideas about the life of the individual and of society assailed him.†   (source)
  • Sparsely furnished, the room contained a plain pinewood table, a steel filing cabinet, four straight-backed chairs, a cot upon which Miss sometimes rested, seeking surcease from the migraine headaches that assailed him from time to time.†   (source)
  • Convinced that the treaty was a plot hatched by Calhoun without consideration of Mexican rights or resistance, and for political, slavery and secessionist purposes, Benton—who actually favored Western expansion on the nationalistic grounds of "manifest destiny"—was handing his political enemies a choice opportunity to assail him openly.†   (source)
  • He had always wanted to describe how for three days the black, raging, worm-filled earth had assailed the deathless incarnation of love, storming it with rocks and rubble-as waves fly and leap at a seacoast, cover and submerge it-how for three days the black hurricane of earth raged, advancing and retreating.†   (source)
  • The rabble of Gondor and its deluded allies shall withdraw at once beyond the Anduin, first taking oaths never again to assail Sauron the Great in arms, open or secret.†   (source)
  • But for the first time that day the sweet, pestilential stench of flesh consumed by fire assailed her nostrils with the ripe bluntness of an abattoir, so violently taking command of her senses that her eyes went out of focus and the throng on the distant platform—seeming for one last moment like some country festival viewed from afar—swam away from her vision.†   (source)
  • It was a bitter campaign, the Democrats and newspapers assailing Houston with acrimonious passion, reopening old charges of Houston's immorality and cowardice.†   (source)
  • Yama landed blow after blow, both with his fists and the edges of his hands; but it was as if he assailed a statue, for the one who had been Kali's holy executioner took each blow without changing his expression, and he returned them with twisting punches of bone-breaking force.†   (source)
  • That he cannot do, in force to assail the City, either north of Cair Andros because of the marshes, or southwards towards Lebennin because of the breadth of the River, that needs many boats.†   (source)
  • Bitterly assailing the collection of measures which formed the "Great Compromise" and scornfully ridiculing its sponsors, he complained when he was constantly called to order by the presiding officer.†   (source)
  • The table was covered with a richly woven tapestry of blue, brown, yellow, red and green, wherein was worked a series of hunting and battle scenes: riders mounted on slizzard and horse met with lance and bow the charges of feather-panda, fire-rooster and jewel-podded command plant; green apes wrestled in the tops of trees; the Garuda Bird clutched a sky demon in its talons, assailing it with beak and pinions; from the depths of the sea crawled an army of horned fish, clutching spikes of pink coral in their jointed fins, facing a row of kirtled and helmeted men who bore lances and torches to oppose their way upon the land.†   (source)
  • 'Surely,' he cried, 'this is the greatest jest in all the history of Gondor: that we should ride with seven thousands, scarce as many as the vanguard of its army in the days of its power, to assail the mountains and the impenetrable gate of the Black Land!†   (source)
  • On January 24, 1878, in a courageous and learned address—his first major speech on the Senate floor—Lamar rejected the pleas of Mississippi voters and assailed elaborate rationalizations behind the two silver measures as artificial and exaggerated.†   (source)
  • Counseling President Polk against adhering to those slogans in dealing with England and Canada, he assailed his Democratic colleagues in the Senate for their refusal to concede the error of their views—especially Michigan's Lewis Cass.†   (source)
  • It was the face of one who has been assailed by a great fear or anguish, but has mastered it and now is quiet.†   (source)
  • Pouring out his taunting sarcasm in short, bombastic thunderbolts of gigantic rage, hate and ridicule, day after day, in town after town, he assailed his opponents and their policies with bitter invective.†   (source)
  • Now in their debate some had counselled that Minas Morgul should first be assailed, and if they might take it, it should be utterly destroyed.†   (source)
  • already Minas Tirith is assailed.†   (source)
  • When he was accosted in Boston by a politically minded preacher who assailed his views "in a rude and indecent manner, I told him that in consideration of his age I should only remark that he had one lesson yet to 46 eruw-, John F. Kennedy learn—Christian charity."†   (source)
  • As I read it, they found the enemy already on the out-wall, or assailing it, when they returned — and that would be two nights ago, if they used fresh horses from the posts, as is their wont.†   (source)
  • Although the same powerful Democratic newspaper, the Omaha World Herald, which had assailed hisstand for principle against Woodrow Wilson, was now able to applaud Senator Norris "for his splendid courage and devotion," other Nebraska newspapers accused him of deserting his state for Tammany Hall in the hopes of reviving his own Presidential boom four years later.†   (source)
  • The axes hewed Forlong as he fought alone and unhorsed; and both Duilin of Morthond and his brother were trampled to death when they assailed the mumakil, leading their bowmen close to shoot at the eyes of the monsters.†   (source)
  • Charles Sumner—who assailed Daniel Webster as a traitor for seeking to keep the South in the Union—who helped crucify Edmund Ross for his vote against the Congressional mob rule that would have ground the South and the Presidency under its heel—whose own death was hastened by the terrible caning administered to him on the Senate floor years earlier by Congressman Brooks of South Carolina, who thereupon became a Southern hero—Charles Sumner was now dead.†   (source)
  • Nothing assailed the company nor withstood their passage, and yet steadily fear grew on the Dwarf as he went on: most of all because he knew now that there could be no turning back; all the paths behind were thronged by an unseen host that followed in the dark.†   (source)
  • The moment he pulled the bell a deep loud barking assailed him from within the wall.†   (source)
  • And now, a sudden twist and stoppage of the carriage inspired Mr Dorrit with the mistrust that the brigand moment was come for twisting him into a ditch and robbing him; until, letting down the glass again and looking out, he perceived himself assailed by nothing worse than a funeral procession, which came mechanically chaunting by, with an indistinct show of dirty vestments, lurid torches, swinging censers, and a great cross borne before a priest.†   (source)
  • Sometimes I lose faith in human nature for a time; I am assailed by doubt.†   (source)
  • The devil was ready to assail poor Mexico.†   (source)
  • Some vague foreboding seemed to assail him.†   (source)
  • And the god then assailed him, seeking to break his concentration.†   (source)
  • But in fact I also felt assailed by weakness when I saw Stella beckon.†   (source)
  • Once again the sense of helplessness assailed him.†   (source)
  • He was assailed by the last fury of the disregarded flesh.†   (source)
  • No feeling of horror or remorse assailed her at the memory.†   (source)
  • I sympathize with those whose hearts were pained, as mine was pained, when Mr. Max so cynically assailed our sacred customs.†   (source)
  • Now, however, the concept of human brotherhood began to be assailed by people who were not yet in positions of command, but merely hoped to be so before long.†   (source)
  • He had deferred to this sentiment in his Inaugural Address, saying to the South: "The government will not assail you.†   (source)
  • The scent of tuberose assailed him, full of delicate associations; in China it was called "the smell of moonlight."†   (source)
  • I always loved to stand in the white folks' kitchen when my mother cooked, for it meant that I got occasional scraps of bread and meat; but many times I regretted having come, for my nostrils would be assailed with the scent of food that did not belong to me and which I was forbidden to eat.†   (source)
  • A cold qualm of guilt assailed Scarlett at the thought of Ellen's consternation, should she ever learn of her daughter's scandalous conduct.†   (source)
  • though reserved for something more some desolation more profound than ruin, as if it had stood in iron juxtaposition to iron flame, to a holocaust which had found itself less fierce and less implacable, not hurled but rather fallen back before the impervious and indomitable skeleton which the flames durst not, at the instant's final crisis, assail; there was even one step, one plank rotted free and tilting beneath the foot (or would have if I had not touched it light and fast) as I ran up and into the hallway whose carpet had long since gone with the bed— and table-linen for lint, and saw the Sutpen face and even as I cried 'Henry Henry!†   (source)
  • And now a new temptation assailed him.†   (source)
  • I suppose that every realist knows that the democratic way of life is at this moment being directly assailed in every part of the world — assailed either by arms or by secret spreading of poisonous propaganda by those who seek to destroy unity and promote discord in nations that are still at peace.†   (source)
  • They had assailed the buyer, argued; but they were routed when his interest seemed to flag and he had told them he didn't want the stuff at any price.†   (source)
  • These appear as reactions to, and spontaneous defenses against, the body-destruction fantasies that assail the child when it is deprived of the mother breast.'†   (source)
  • Then, as she started back toward the driver's seat, a vast weariness assailed her and she swayed dizzily.†   (source)
  • The beautiful, noble, glorious Budur, discovering her male affinity beside her, and perceiving that he had already taken her ring, unable either to rouse him or to imagine what he had done to her, and ravaged with love, assailed by the open presence of his flesh, lost all control, and attained to a climax of helpless passion.†   (source)
  • Hardly had he finished the first lines when two other voices, drunken voices, assailed him, enraged foolish voices that stumbled over words and blurred them together.†   (source)
  • It was only one phase of the multitudinous emotions which had assailed her.†   (source)
  • A shameful consciousness of his own person assailed him.†   (source)
  • He walked slowly and cautiously, prepared to be assailed at any moment.†   (source)
  • Klopchuk and F. X. Jordan were assailing him as crooked.†   (source)
  • Then the glow began to fade; doubt once more assailed her.†   (source)
  • He was continually assailed by questions.†   (source)
  • Hitherto I had blamed only the servants, but now a terrible fear began to assail me.†   (source)
  • Suddenly a low, dull murmur assailed his ears.†   (source)
  • Hours passed and a fever assailed his body.†   (source)
  • A low trample of many hoofs assailed his ears.†   (source)
  • But among the conflicting sensations which assailed her, there was neither shame nor remorse.†   (source)
  • He could not resist the doubt that assailed him.†   (source)
  • Both temptation and terror assailed Joan.†   (source)
  • But even his tremendous will could not overcome the dissolution that assailed it.†   (source)
  • Never in her life had such a sickening nausea assailed her.†   (source)
  • A steady low murmur of falling water assailed her ears.†   (source)
  • The smell of wood smoke assailed Tom's nostrils with more than pleasurable sense.†   (source)
  • A fine choking dust assailed Carley's nostrils.†   (source)
  • Her innocence had kept her in ignorance of the dangers that might assail a young girl of her age.†   (source)
  • Why must the stream so soon run dry and fail us,
    And burning thirst again assail us?†   (source)
  • Quite a different annoyance suddenly assailed him.†   (source)
  • There, again, Monte Cristo was assailed by a multitude of thoughts.†   (source)
  • He was now assailed with a storm of questions from all sides: Where had he been?†   (source)
  • I have assailed thy resolution in vain, and mine own is fixed as the adamantine decrees of fate.†   (source)
  • La Esmeralda was sleeping at the moment when the outcasts assailed the church.†   (source)
  • He doubts as soon as he is assailed by the objections which his inquiries may have aroused.†   (source)
  • All at once, the cuirassiers, who had been the assailants, found themselves assailed.†   (source)
  • He was assailed by a broadside, composed of a quadruple howl.†   (source)
  • If unassailed, we depart assailing no one.†   (source)
  • The barricade was ten times attacked, approached, assailed, scaled, and never captured.†   (source)
  • And again the doubt assailed me.†   (source)
  • She, a monogamist, regretted the cessation of some of life's innocent odours; he, whose instincts were polygamous, felt morally braced by the change and less liable to the temptations that had assailed him in the past.†   (source)
  • [Closer again] We keep records of every stage—dozens of gramophone disks and photographs— HIGGINS [assailing her at the other ear] Yes, by George: it's the most absorbing experiment I ever tackled†   (source)
  • A bitter cold assailed me.†   (source)
  • That was the work of devils, to scatter his thoughts and over-cloud his conscience, assailing him at the gates of the cowardly and sin-corrupted flesh: and, praying God timidly to forgive him his weakness, he crawled up on to the bed and, wrapping the blankets closely about him, covered his face again with his hands.†   (source)
  • At the same instant the car was assailed by a most terrifying shriek; the visitors started in alarm, the women turned pale and shrank back.†   (source)
  • No doubts assailed him.†   (source)
  • That lady's dread of a scene gave her an inexorableness which the greatest strength of character could not have produced, since it was independent of all considerations of right or wrong; and knowing this, Lily seldom ventured to assail it.†   (source)
  • His well-laid plan had failed, its sequel was problematical; there was still a great chance now that the Scarlet Pimpernel might yet escape, and Chauvelin, with that unreasoning fury, which sometimes assails a strong nature, was longing to vent his rage on somebody.†   (source)
  • Only the battlements of the upper air, assailed in storm by the ripping of lightning, could send back such thunder as now rose from the shaking earth.†   (source)
  • Joan found her horse, and before hobbling him she was assailed by a temptation to mount him and ride away.†   (source)
  • Ah, here they are—the mixed metaphors mocking and strutting about before me, pointing to the bull in the china shop assailed by hailstones and the bugbears with pale looks, an unanalyzed species!†   (source)
  • As she entered the lobby a clicking of pool balls and the discordant rasp of a phonograph assailed her ears.†   (source)
  • The thoughts of his mind, besides, were of the gloomiest dye; and when he glanced at the companion of his drive, he was conscious of some touch of that terror of the law and the law's officers, which may at times assail the most honest.†   (source)
  • Cars were assailed, men attacked, policemen struggled with, tracks torn up, and shots fired, until at last street fights and mob movements became frequent, and the city was invested with militia.†   (source)
  • She was not a girl who could be "won" in the kinetic sense—she was proof against cleverness, she was proof against charm; if any of these assailed her too strongly she would immediately resolve the affair to a physical basis, and under the magic of her physical splendor the strong as well as the brilliant played her game and not their own.†   (source)
  • And yet she hesitated even now to let him know how sharp were the twinges of jealousy that were beginning to assail her.†   (source)
  • No hour of my stay in fact was so assailed with apprehensions as that of my coming down to learn that the carriage containing Mrs. Grose and my younger pupil had already rolled out of the gates.†   (source)
  • Assailed by manifold sensations, the young man's heart pounded hard as he held out his arm to give blood, and he turned slightly pale as he admired the splendid ruby red of the sap of life rising to fill glass tubes.†   (source)
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