Therefore what theassailant knows of the defensive previous to a night attack, is seldom or never sufficient to supply the want of direct observation.
Imagination paints to itself a picture of the most complete confusion on the one side, and on the other side the assailant only occupied in reaping the fruits of his advantage.
From this it follows, that the assailant in a combat at night feels the want of his eyes just as much as the defender, and that therefore, only particular reasons can make a night attack advisable.
Now at the first look of the thing such an attack appears quite pre-eminently advantageous, for we suppose the enemy to be taken by surprise, the assailant naturally to be prepared for everything which can happen.
My impression is that I left my assailant unconscious upon the ground.
Reluctantly he was compelled to realise that no movement of his could be quick enough to prevent the driving of that thin stiletto into his throat, if his hidden assailant should keep her word.
With a grip of iron Cummings held the stranger's throat to the rail, and with arms of steel clasped around Cummings, his assailant pressed him to the ground.
The landlady thereupon gave a full description of the larger man, which Chip carefully inserted in his note book, and recognized as the same given by Fotheringham of his assailant on that memorable night.
Mrs. Millar, bristling up in her daughter's defence, the assailant being that daughter.
The assailant has to handle his victim gingerly, without provoking contractions which would make the Snail let go his support and, at the very least, precipitate him from the tall stalk whereon he is blissfully slumbering.
By means of attacks which the assailant renews as soon as they are repulsed by the assailed, the Carabus contrives to raise the cuirass slightly and to slip his head beneath it.
The door can no longer be closed and the assailant is henceforth master of the fortress.
At last, after a silent, deadly, exhausting struggle, I got my assailant under by a series of incredible efforts of strength.
There was nothing more to be done but to turn on the gas, and, having first seen what my midnight assailant was like, arouse the household.
Then he proceeded to polish off the girl's assailant in a most scientific manner, ending by flinging him in a limp and battered condition into a corner of the room.
To Frank's surprise, although the attack had been sudden, he did not succeed in snatching the assailant from the unfortunate person he was beating.
Jack and Harry scarcely breathed until, with a display of strength and skill, Frank disarmed his assailant by giving his arm a wrench, causing the knife to fly through the air and fall over the edge of the cliff.
The Soul is thus enriched--to appearance or incidentally: and the assailant is annexed.
The way the Soul maintains itself is by turning the assailant into an idea(32): and each idea is therefore a Selbsterhaltung of the Soul.
But at the moment when he thought the rashness of his impetuous young assailant had left him at his mercy, another shout was given, and La Longue Carabine was seen rushing to the rescue, attended by all his white associates.
Even David hurled his assailant to the earth; nor was Heyward secured until the victory over his companion enabled the Indians to direct their united force to that object.
In vain, the Bee protests and darts her sting at random; the assailant does not let go.
It surprises me that my brutal assailant should have run away from two boys.
His assailant bent over him, and despite his feeble resistance began to search his pockets, at the same time indulging in savage threats.
By the dim light that partly illuminated the court from a street lamp farther on, he saw that his assailant was stunned.
As he thought back upon it afterward, Philip was unable to account exactly for the way in which the confidence between him and his assailant had been brought about.
It then occurred to Philip for the first time that it was the mill-owner that his assailant that night had intended to waylay and rob.
Just as the shower was at its heaviest his assailant darted away again, side-stepped an imaginary blow, ducked another, and came at him once more.
Between him and his assailant stood a short, sturdy man in a tweed suit.
The real reason that decided Vincent against following the advice to give his assailant in charge was that he feared he himself might be questioned as to the object of his journey and his destination.
The fury, too, with which the latter had attacked him would show plainly enough that his assailant was absolutely certain as to his identity, and even that there had been a personal feud between them.
While that precious hour of taboo lasted, no wandering dragon or spirit of the air could hurt the holy tree, and no human assailant dare touch or approach it.
But the moral impulse of the assailant demoralizes the assailed.
The first line of the assailant would be sensible of death and no one would wish to be in the first rank.
Caesar certainly was right as a general rule; the enthusiasm of the troops must not be dampened, and the initiative of the attack indeed gives to the assailant a certain moral influence.
The whole first rank of the assailant falls, smashed.
But an assailant who is mounting a ladder is at a considerable disadvantage when matched with an antagonist who has a firm footing on the wall above.
For the moment, indeed, he was free; hisassailant had been alone.
With a turn of his wrist, Pritchard suddenly seemed to lift the form of his assailant into the air.
For a moment the young assailant stood there with an expression of dismayed shock, as though, in his sleep, he had committed a crime and had awakened into an appalled realization.
She meant to unmask her assailant and register his face for a future reprisal of death.
Before that assailant had recovered his equilibrium, Halloway had seized him up as a grown man might seize a small child and hurled him headlong at the operator, so that the two went down in a tangle of writhing bodies.
Surrounded by his friends, his Duchess in an upper room, he was struck down as surely as though his assailant had met him solitary and alone.
Like many other women, her assailant had apparently become separated from her escort in the fierce fighting, and the fact that she preferred a velvet mask to one of wire showed her to be not a little courageous.
The deceased's assailantstood on her left-hand side, and must have shot her as she rode along.
Ordinarily the rifleman is in no danger from a hunted cougar; the beast's one idea seems to be flight, and even if its assailant is very close, it rarely charges if there is any chance for escape.
Sometimes he pounced on them as they fed through the thick, low cover of the bottoms, where an assailant could either lie in ambush by one of the numerous cattle trails, or else creep unobserved towards some browsing beast.
This so enraged him that he forgot directly all about companionship, and the sort of tacit brotherly compact into which they had entered, and springing at his assailant he struck him a blow in the chest, which sent him staggering back.
So much the better for all straight-going people, ma chere tante" cried Pembroke; "little Phemy was no contemptible assailant either way.
In this situation her assailant used her in the way that constituted the offence for which he was justly executed.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "assailant" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: adversary; antagonist; assailant; enemy; foe; opponent; opposition; raider; rebel
