assails
- present tense form of assail (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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—Then from his palace runs A greyhound fair which on the verdant grass Assails the fiercer of the other beasts Before them all.
From La Chanson de Roland : Translated from the Seventh Edition of Léon Gautier by Rabillon, Léonce
Worst of the three is this, when each Assails with taunt his fellow's speech; When all debate, and no consent Concludes the angry argument.
From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)
DEEP-ROOTED Fierce Boreas in his wildest glee Assails in vain the yielding tree That, rooted deep, gains strength to bear, And proudly lifts its head in air.
From A Backward Glance at Eighty Recollections & comment by Murdock, Charles A. (Charles Albert)
