onfall
Example Sentences
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All is afire with neigh of steeds and onfall of the men.
From The Æneids of Virgil Done into English Verse by William Morris
For our part of the onfall, the English had made but a feigned attack on the mill, wherefore the bale-fires were lit, to our undoing.
From A Monk of Fife by Andrew Lang
None the less I hoped in my heart that his secret tidings of the Burgundian onfall had not come through a priest, and namely a cordelier.
From A Monk of Fife by Andrew Lang
Another onfall we may withstand, but they are many and we are few, so that the time must come when we can no longer form line across the hill.
From The White Company by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Wogan came too late for that pretty onfall at Prestonpans, but he marched south with the Prince's forces, riding again the old roads from Carlisle to Lancaster and Preston.
From Parson Kelly by Andrew Lang
