onfall
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Yet, considering that trained men and a numerous horse have great advantage by daylight, I should be in favour of a camisado or night onfall.'
From Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Who ever saw a camp so exposed to an onfall?
From Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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
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
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