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
"Aye," nodded Sir Benedict, "and shall march south to cut off our retreat if haply any of us escape Sir Rollo's onfall."
From Beltane the Smith by Jeffery Farnol
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
None the less I hoped in my heart that his secret tidings of the Burgundian onfall had not come through a priest, and namely a cordelier.
From A Monk of Fife by Andrew Lang
Such a purpose as the trapping of the King by a secret and sudden onfall was the mere commonplace of Scottish politics.
From Historical Mysteries by Andrew Lang
