The Only Use of
assail
in
Frankenstein - 1831 version
- But I have one want which I have never yet been able to satisfy, and the absence of the object of which I now feel as a most severe evil, I have no friend, Margaret: when I am glowing with the enthusiasm of success, there will be none to participate my joy; if I am assailed by disappointment, no one will endeavour to sustain me in dejection.†
p. 19.4
Definition:
to attack or cause trouble