All 4 Uses
assail
in
Dante's Inferno -- translated by Longfellow
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- God in his mercy such created me
That misery of yours attains me not,
Nor any flame assails me of this burning.†Canto 1.1-11 * - I answered him: "Ciacco, thy wretchedness
Weighs on me so that it to weep invites me;
But tell me, if thou knowest, to what shall come
The citizens of the divided city;
If any there be just; and the occasion
Tell me why so much discord has assailed it."†Canto 1.1-11 - But because fraud is man's peculiar vice,
More it displeases God; and so stand lowest
The fraudulent, and greater dole assails them.†Canto 1.1-11 - The one transfixed looked at it, but said naught;
Nay, rather with feet motionless he yawned,
Just as if sleep or fever had assailed him.†Canto 1.23-34
Definitions:
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(1)
(assail) to attack or cause trouble
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)