The one is the action of certain temptations in setting the soul on fire; the other is the suddenness with which they assail us.
There is no artificial stoicism about Christianity, no attempt to sophisticate one's self out of believing in the reality of the evils that assail us, or to forbid that we shall feel their pain and their burden.
The terrors of death are around us the enemies of truth and thy Son assail us, and we faint and are afraid.
These, and they amounted to a large and dense mass, at once, as those cries arose, sent forth others as shouts of defiance, and facing outwards made it known that none could assail Macer but by first assailing them.
He had shown those haughty Cavaliers that the garrison of Lyme was not to be so easily overcome as they had thought, and had taught them what they were to expect should they again venture to assail us.
There are thousands to tell you it cannot be done, There are thousands to prophesy failure; There are thousands to point out to you one by one, The dangers that wait to assail you.
When the body makes music, the spirit falls into harmonies too and the discords that assail us cease to make themselves heard.
He had himself shared in the dark and desponding spirit of the age just so much as enabled him to understand and portray it, to assail or to alleviate.
P: And if they break their pledges after their treaty (hath been made with you) and assail your religion, then fight the heads of disbelief - Lo!
Gianettino, the expected tyrant of Genoa, being dead, it was no longer desirable to assail the Doria palace.
Doria disdained to render a vassal’s homage to a Farnese and ordered Gianettino to assail and capture the Papal galleys in the port of Genoa.
To assail a strong fortress with boats is a very perilous undertaking and it would not have been attempted but for the fierce ardour of Borgognino who, though not seconded by the galley of Verrina, determined to risk the assault.
There, without any delay, you will assail the house of Della Torre, and if you tear him into a thousand pieces you will give him that reward which his crime merits.
Count Gerolamo did not lose courage at the sight of these formidable preparations to assail his stronghold, but applied himself diligently to increasing his means of resistance.
Count Gerolamo, trusting to the good faith of the Republic, spent a brief hour in Carignano and then set out with his followers for Montobbio, not wishing to depart from Italy lest the Dorias should assail his feuds.
Yet New England historians assail the complainants for stating their grievances, and the King and Council for listening to them even so far as to order an inquiry into them.
Illustration: 311] The meeting was very unpleasant, for Somerset happening to be seated there, had the bad taste to assail York with a volley of vulgar abuse, which the latter repaid with interest.
Some of them began to assail her with their ponderous learning, but she cut them short by acknowledging that she did not know a great A or a little a from a bouncing B.
I will commit your members to such a sepulchre; I will burn your form with such wood, and will chaunt such a charm over your funeral pyre, that all incantations shall thereafter assail you in vain.
Twice did Aistulf the Lombard assail Rome, twice did Pipin descend to the rescue: the second time at the bidding of a letter written in the name of St. Peter himself[44].
The revolt of the Albigenses, the spread of the Cathari and other so-called heretics, the excitement created by the writings of Wickliffe and Huss, witnessed to the fearlessness wherewith it could assail the dominant theology.
Any gentleman who would assail these ladies as he has done, would be prepared to make any disrespectful disposition of their rights.
The men, we may suppose, are above and beyond the laws, and we assail the laws only.
The Protestants and Catholics assail us with very poor grace when it is remembered that the first pillars of the religion they claim to profess were men like the saints of Utah--polygamists.
Thou art gone; And he who would assail thee in thy grave, Oh, let him pause!
God forbid, my son, that I, your old tutor, should seek to assail my own work, and attempt to weaken your faith!
He will encompass you, my son; he will assail you on the vulnerable side of your ingenuous heart, in addressing your religion; and seeing the extravagance of his affected zeal, you will fancy yourself lukewarm as compared with him.
The Inquisition was organized as a standing inquiry under their direction, and with fire and torment the church set itself, through this instrument, to assail and weaken the human conscience in which its sole hope of world dominion resided.
Persian uplands until they were strong enough to assail first Assyria (650 B.
Vain, he thought, would it be to assail one so protected, nor was he willing to incur the mysterious enmity of the snake.
And so, hereafter, when the evils of life shall assail thee, may they penetrate no deeper than the surface, nor affect thy immortal soul.
Sidenote: The Man on Broadway] Just consider for a moment the countless number and variety of impressions that assail the eye and ear of the New Yorker who walks down Broadway in a busy hour of the day.
Many more things come to us in the form of sense-impressions that clamorously assail our sense-organs, but no effort of the will is needed to ignore them.
As England was the undisputed mistress of the sea, this was the only point where Republican France couldassail its unrelenting foe.
The man who is guilty of the former not only commits violence, but means by that violence to assail the very existence through which alone he himself may be said to exist as a citizen, or member of a living political organism.
Will they forsooth assail me, / whereof else have I need?
Attire and armament Bore they in fullest measure / through the Bavarian land, And ne'er upon the journey / dared assail them robber band.
The first point is that the devout soul is exempt from calamities which assail those around it.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "assail" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
