onfall

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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 Pattison, Mark

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

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 Kleiser, Grenville

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 Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir

Now, as they were devising together, some for, some against, for men-at-arms not a few had fallen in the onfall, there came the sound of horses’ hoofs, and lo!

From A Monk of Fife by Lang, Andrew