onfall
Example Sentences
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"Aye," nodded Sir Benedict, "and shall march south to cut off our retreat if haply any of us escape Sir Rollo's onfall."
From Beltane the Smith by Jeffery Farnol
I deem Xaintrailles has tidings that they intend to ride from Peronne to Lihons to-night, and thence make early onfall on us to-morrow.
From A Monk of Fife by Andrew Lang
The allusion is to that onfall upon the reformers, Cranmer, Latimer, &c., which had escaped from Milton's pen in 1642 to the great grief of his friends.
From Milton by Mark Pattison
Look you, this onfall and stratagem of war may not miscarry.
From A Monk of Fife by Andrew Lang
The onfall and sally of the earler evangelistic campaigns are now aided by the investment and siege of educational and medical work.
From The World's Great Sermons, Volume 10 Drummond to Jowett, and General Index by Grenville Kleiser
