All 4 Uses
assail
in
Dante's Inferno
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- I am made by God, thanks be to Him, such that your misery toucheth me not, nor doth the flame of this burning assail me.†
Canto 1-3 *
- I answered him, "Ciacco, thy trouble so weighs upon me, that it invites me to weeping; but tell me, if thou canst, to what will come the citizens of the divided city; if any one in it is just; and tell me the reason why such great discord has assailed it."†
Canto 4-6
- But because fraud is the peculiar sin of man, it most displeaseth God; and therefore the fraudulent are the lower, and more woe assails them.†
Canto 10-12
- The transfixed one gazed at it, but said nothing; nay rather, with feet fixed, he yawned even as if sleep or fever had assailed him.†
Canto 25-27
Definitions:
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(1)
(assail) to attack or cause trouble
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)