onfall
Example Sentences
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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 Lang, Andrew
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
"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 Farnol, Jeffery
Look you, this onfall and stratagem of war may not miscarry.
From A Monk of Fife by Lang, Andrew
He was "the fighting general" of Soult's army, famous for the rough energy of his character and the fierceness of his onfall.
From Deeds that Won the Empire Historic Battle Scenes by Fitchett, W. H. (William Henry)
