Both Uses of
assault
in
Nine Stories
- Charles and I are both quite concerned about you; we hope you were not among those who made the first initial assault upon the Cotentin Peninsula.†
Story 6 *assault = attack
- It satirized the familiar, everyday tragedy of a chaste young girl, with belowshoulder-length blond hair and udder-size breasts, being criminally assaulted in church, in the very shadow of the altar, by her minister.†
Story 8assaulted = attacked
Definition:
to attack someone or something physically or verbally; or to threaten violence