While Holland was thus assailable on two sides, the advancing angle of the French dominions exposed them in a similar manner.
As the place, however, was assailable only in one part, there was every prospect of a long and obstinate resistance.
Foiled in this direction, Mrs. Milroy tried next to find an assailable place in the statement which the governess's reference had made on the subject of the governess's character.
Assuming that this idea of mine had a foundation in truth, the position of the Count might prove to be more assailable than I had hitherto ventured to hope.
On the morning after my return from Hampshire I took Marian upstairs into my working-room, and there laid before her the plan that I had matured thus far, for mastering the one assailable point in the life of Sir Percival Glyde.
Disgust at our treatment may do much; but yet, his mission may suggest higher thoughts than are assailable by us and our measures.
Yet would you believe it, our common law asserts directly the reverse, pronouncing the culpability of the former as meriting heavy punishment, while the latter is not assailableeven by implication.
Being reinforced the next day, he hung upon their flanks and rear throughout the whole march to their ships, attacking them at every assailable point.
After striking at every assailable point, Arnold called his troops back to the ships, descended the river, and took his station at Portsmouth.
The surest proof that Gracchus had fallen would be the immediate repeal of one of his laws, and the enactment which was most assailable was that which, though passed under another's name, embodied his project for the refoundation of Carthage.
All the inlets and assailable parts of our Union have been minutely examined, and positions taken with a view to the best effect, observing in every instance a just regard for economy.
But his principal effort, at the head of the chosen Theban troops, was made against the Lacedæmonians and Pellenians, who were posted in the most assailable part of the line.
Besides, the Italians are not assailableat home, as we and the French are.
Until a late hour in the day the Athenians made vain attempts to dislodge them from their position, which was only assailable in front.
Some of his counsellors would have persuaded him, from these considerations, to turn his arms against some weaker and more assailable point than Loja.
Defenses were constructed at Georgetown, and at allassailable points on the northeast coast of South Carolina.
There are fewer assailable points on the Gulf than on the Atlantic.
With great activity and energy, therefore, they betook themselves to the fortification of every assailable point.
A part were stationed in the city, a part at Brooklyn, Long Island, and detachments at various other assailable points.
The command of the Bosphorus would have made the Black Sea a Russian lake, and the only assailable flank of a march into Persia would have been protected against the great naval Powers.
It mattered little in what phase the silkworm happened to be: in all it was assailable by the evil.
Again, there are some creatures which are never assailable by it.
But if it was possible to render a fowl assailable by splenic fever simply by lowering its temperature, is it not also possible to restore to health a fowl so inoculated by warming it up again?
From praying and swearing he fell to weeping, but the stony-hearted little tyrant was not assailable by tears or entreaties.
The physical difference, however, she amply made up for, by keeping her prongs ever actively employed pricking the unfortunate Peter at every assailable point.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "assailable" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: liable; penetrable; vulnerable; weak
