onfall
Example Sentences
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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
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
All is afire with neigh of steeds and onfall of the men.
From The Æneids of Virgil Done into English Verse by William Morris
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 Mark Pattison
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
