Greuthungi, or East Goths, andassailed the Thervingi, or West Goths.
At the same time an attack was directed from Macedonia against the Scordisci, who had, it may be presumed, made common cause with the assailed inhabitants of the coast.
Mutilus ventured even to attack the Roman camp; but he was repulsed, and the Samnites, who while retreating were assailed in the rear by the Roman cavalry, left nearly 6000 dead on the field of battle.
Assailed with harsh speeches one should not assail in return.
The Rishi then said unto Shoma,--Thou art being reduced by the disease phthisis that has assailed thee.
Through this curse of Daksha, phthisis assailed the puissant Shoma and entered into his body.
Without doubt, when persons are afflicted by diseases as little animalsassailed by hunters, they then lose the powers of rising up and moving about.
In pride of youth or in helpless infancy bearing the weight of years or lying in the mother's womb, every one is subject to be assailedby Death.
That man becomes emancipated who always recollects that this body, when overtaken by decrepitude, becomes assailed by wrinkles and white hairs and leanness and paleness of complexion and a bending of the form.
The attributes of Rajas and Tamas assailed the deities.
Neither medicines, nor incantations, can rescue the man assailedby decrepitude or overtaken by death.
Meanwhile Sachi, afflicted with pain and grief, anxious to find her lord and assailed by her fear of Nahusha proceeded to Vrihaspati (the chief priest of the celestials).
Inspired by the motive of doing thee good I have said this for instructing thee as to how thou shouldst bear thyself when assailed by foes.
Even physicians, that are well-skilled and well-up in their scriptures and well-equipt with excellent medicines, are themselves afflicted by disease like animals assailed by hunters.
When Time hath assailed even myself, who is there whom he will not assail?
Dare you trust the slaves who have become the freed-men of the Lord, and have embraced Christianity at a time when its converts are assailed with fire and sword?
The spectators, enraged at this interruption to their sports, assailed the Christian with a shower of stones.
Rome has, indeed, assailed "the article with which the Church either stands or falls.
In his last moments he was so fiercely assailed by the devil that he could not maintain his ground nor find rest until he said, 'I believe what the collier believes.
Moreover, after he had answered those who had first assailed him in the beginning of his public activity, he could afford to disregard many slanders, because they were mere repetitions.
His brother-in-law was assailed and stabbed, by his orders, on the steps of his palace.
A score of such conflicting shouts assailed Gibbie as he approached, and he replied to them all with the light of his countenance.
Personal abuse of the coarsest kind was heaped upon Washington by the opposition press, while a host of pamphleteers assailed him under cover of anonymity.
I had thrown myself alongside my brave protector, resolving to do battle and die by his side--though not much could my puny arm have effected against the host of strong ferocious men who assailed us.
Despite all our efforts, some of them might get past us; and then we should be assailed in the rear, and of course vanquished and destroyed.
And thus do lions generally behave at the approach of man--especially if they are not hungry, and be not assailed by the intruder.
Of course it would be impossible to do this without the risk--nay, the positive certainty--of being assailed by the lion.
We can conceive of no more satisfactory response to the position here assailed than that so often attributed to Lord Palmerston, 'that all children are born good.
A writer in the April number of the Quarterly Review hasassailed him very angrily, and has accused him of 'asserting without a shadow of proof that nine-tenths of the Welsh people are Nonconformists.
Meanwhile the Germans had been combining their troops for a decisive effort, and on the morning of the 2nd they assailed their enemy in the positions he had won.
I questioned, almost guessing his meaning as a pungent odorassailed my nostrils.
There was a smile on Peggy's lips, for Drayton had kept to his duty in spite of as great a temptation as ever assailed a man to do otherwise, and so smiling she turned to meet the pursuers.
The girl gave a little sob as the temptation assailed her and tightened her clasp of the pony convulsively.
Shirley hoped to redeem the failure of last year, and he had the satisfaction of hearing of Bradstreet’s success in the midst of the personal detraction which assailed him.
His success did not soften him, and he again assailed them in New England Persecutors mauled with their own Weapons (1697).
Unless some great success crowns our arms before Congress reassembles, the President will be assailed with great bitterness, and the consequences may be fatal.
The Northern papers say Charleston is to be assailed again immediately; that large reinforcements are going to Hooker, and that they captured six or eight thousand prisoners in their flight on the Rappahannock.
Well, I would not injure that flag; and I think it would never be assailed by the Southern people, if it were only kept at home, away from our soil.
Everything indicates that Richmond will be assailed this fall, and that operations in the field are not to be suspended in the winter.
It is probable we shall be assailed from several directions simultaneously.
A regiment of Northern troops has been assailed by the mob.
Prussia was not so strong as the Confederate States, and yet was environed and assailedby France, Austria, Russia, and several smaller powers simultaneously.
Wise assailed the enemy on Saturday, at Williamsburg, captured the town, and drove the Federals into their fort--Magruder.
Magruder was assailed by some five thousand Yankees at Bethel, on the Peninsula.
As I walked down to the department, heavy and brisk cannonading below assailed the ear.
But we have dispatches from North Carolina, stating that a storm assailed the enemy's fleet off Hatteras, sinking the Monitor with all on board, and so crippling the Galena that her guns were thrown overboard!
In one of the rooms Aaron Burr once dined with Chief Justice Marshall, and Marshall was assailed for it afterward by Mr. Jefferson.
And because it has displayed the best and noblest qualities and on all occasions endeavoured to obviate friction with other people, it has been unjustly assailed and trampled upon.
According to such requisitions innumerable difficulties have assailed the poor country on all sides, and the general tone throughout would imply that they were insidious and uncalled for.
When the Djoliba appeared it was assailed by a shower of stones and arrows.
The Etoile was attacked by hundreds of pirogues, and forced to return the stones and arrows that assailed her by a few gunshots, which put the assailants to flight.
He was at once massacred by more than two hundred Indians, who assailed him with clubs and stones.
As they were about to re-embark the French were assailed by a shower of stones, one of which wounded Captain Hamelin severely.
A boat, sent to take the pirogues of the robbers, was assailed with stones until it reached the shore, and it was only after a discharge of shot that the assailants determined to retreat.
On the 30th of December the English doubled a cape which they took to be that of Maria Van Diemen, discovered by Tasman, but they were so assailed by threatening winds, that Cook only accomplished ten leagues in three weeks.
Without uttering a word Yang Oerlang assailed him.
The first notice of his approach is the crack of his rifle, and no one with experience of such struggles ever blames the timidity of citizens in exposed positions when assailed by these savages.
No President of the United States was ever more fiercely and bitterly assailed than Washington.
Even the churches, with congregations armed as they listened to the Word of God, were assailed and the worshipers sometimes massacred.
She had refused him; yet at times she repented; and a presentiment that she should yet marry him, together with a terror at the idea which prevented her from wishing for the marriage, assailed her.
The situation he had chosen was such as could only be assailed from three narrow and rugged paths.
So stoutly was the gate of the castle assailed by him, that never did smith with his hammer strike his iron as he and his did there.
Remorse, shame, fear, regret, simultaneously assailed and weighed down the mind of Gerald.
Persons passing along Nassau Street, between Ann and Beekman Streets, for some days past, have had their olfactories unpleasantly assailed by a vile stench.
It is thus severely assailed by Rochester: But does not Dryden find even Jonson dull?
During the last years of its existence, Granada, the poor remnant of the Moorish empire in Spain, was torn to pieces with intestine discord, and assailed without by the sword of the Christians.
When she went into the house a few minutes later, a premonition of impending trouble assailed her and would not be dismissed.
Now, when he was very old, he went a mission into Kintyre, where he was assailed by the heathen, who knocked him down and cut off his right arm.
But the valiant missionary specially assailed the diseases of the soul, and made use of all the tenderness and all the ardour of his own spirit to reach them.
When she was assailedby an alarming illness, which fell into paralysis, and found no remedy from physicians, she cried, "Ah!
A mob at once assembled, and he was beaten till he could not move; and whenever he appeared in the streets, he was assailed with sticks and stones.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "assailed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
