onfall
Example Sentences
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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 Andrew Lang
Look you, this onfall and stratagem of war may not miscarry.
From A Monk of Fife by Andrew Lang
The only circumstance which can be alleged in mitigation of the excesses of the Regii sanguinis clamor is that Milton had provoked the onfall by his own violence.
From Milton by Mark Pattison
“You shall hear how the onfall goes, belike,” they said, “and to-morrow shall be your judgment.”
From A Monk of Fife by Andrew Lang
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 Andrew Lang
