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 Morris, William

Look you, this onfall and stratagem of war may not miscarry. 

From A Monk of Fife by Lang, Andrew

On January 6th the Boers delivered their great assault upon Ladysmith—an onfall so gallantly made and gallantly met that it deserves to rank among the classic fights of British military history.

From The Great Boer War by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir

Such were the evil tidings, which put me in sore fear for my brother Robin, one that, in such an onfall, would go far, as beseemed his blood. 

From A Monk of Fife by Lang, Andrew

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 Lang, Andrew