They immediately commenced the assault in defiance of the shower of arrows that were discharged against them, and undismayed by the loss of their commander, both of whose legs had been carried away by a cannon-ball.
When England and France made peace, Port Royal was restored to the French, much to the dissatisfaction of the English colonists, who saw clearly that as soon as another war arose they would have to make the assault again.
Two friends of mine had business there, on account of assault and battery concerning Washoe stocks, and I felt interested, of course.
I had ordered a strongly-built machine, and I was now glad of it, because a light and weak affair that was merely meant to run along on a level and unobstructed road would not have stood the assault on my piazza.
Well, now, never mind the nativity of the lager beer girl, but state, as concisely as possible, what you know of the assault and battery.
Stop that driveling nonsense and stick to theassault and battery.
But the last hours' experiences had shown him how vain it was to assault single-handed the strong barrier between money and labour, and how his own dash at the breach had only thrust him farther back into the obscure ranks of the stragglers.
Amherst sat silent under the assault of her eloquence.
He had kept that word and acted on it; in spite of Bessy's lastassault on his pride he had borne with her, and deferred the day of final rupture; and the sense that she had had a part in his decision filled Justine with a glow of hope.
A widow came to tell him of an assault on her twelve-year-old daughter.
Here the great powers of Nature have gathered for their last assault and have challenged man's soul to answer for its life.
When he turned his eyes from Van Meter after his first assault they rested on the face of Kate Ransom, her magnificent figure tense, rigid, her cheeks scarlet, her blue eyes flashing with tears of excitement.
She made a tremendous assault upon Harry Foker, who sat next to her; and to whom she gave all the talk, though I took her down.
He blushed more than ever at seeing them, and seizing the one whom he had nearly upset, jumped her up into the air, and kissed her; at which sudden assault Ameliar-Ann began to cry in great alarm.
Hence it took the form of an assault on the established enlightenment.
The evil in convention is the substitution of merely habitual distinctions for real distinctions, and the only justification for an assault on convention is the bringing of such real distinctions to light.
In the assaultand capture of this town, CortA(C)z and his men obtained a rich booty.
This assault upon an important port alarmed the viceroy, who, at once, sent orders to have the town immediately surrounded with a wall, and suitable forts and bastions erected which would guard it in all subsequent attacks.
During the night the British Consul General visited the American camp, and was naturally anxious to spare the effusion of blood and the assault by an army on a city in which his country had so deep an interest.
While these efforts were successfully making on the Mexican centre and left, Duncan's battery blazed on the right, and Colonel Mackintosh was ordered to assault that point.
Meanwhile Cadwallader brought on the general assault by crossing the deep ravine in front and pouring into the work and upon the fugitives, frequent volleys of destructive musketry.
At that moment the assaulting party, commanded by Wright of the 8th Infantry, dashed forward to assault the centre.
On the contrary, active preparations were made to assault the irregular pile of stone buildings which formed the Palace of Axayacatl, in which the Spaniards were lodged.
He designed to make the main assault on the west and not on the south of the city.
South Carolina having inaugurated the assault upon the constitutional rights of the North through the post-office, Alabama followed in a yet bolder step against the personal security of abolitionists.
Colonel Ratier, a cloth merchant, who had led the assault at the head of a body of the national guard of La Roche-Oysel, was decorated with an order.
The Prussian did not attack him, for the savage assault had terrified and astonished the officer as well as causing him suffering.
When, however, he was prepared for their assault he had shown himself to be more than a match for the best of them.
At this the whole city rose in arms, drove the Spaniards to their quarters, and, in spite of a devastating fire of artillery, made assault after assault against the walls.
Reluctantly yielding to his importunities, Cortes ordered the assault to be made.
After a week spent in the comparative inactivity of perfecting the blockade, the Commander resolved upon a general assault on the city by the three armies.
Claiborne arrived on the 23d of December, and made his dispositions for the assault without delay.
Accordingly, when he advanced to the assault on Fort Mims he sent the prophet Francis with a force of Creeks into the country which lies in the fork of the Alabama and Tombigbee rivers, and which in our day constitutes Clarke County.
The men, raw as they were, behaved well and met the assault with spirit.
About sunrise, every thing being in readiness, General Coffee sent two companies forward into the town, without breaking his circular alignment, instructing the officers in command of them to make an assault and bring on the action.
His pursuers had shown themselves rather boldly during the night, and were evidently contemplating an assault upon his column during the day's march.
The assaultof the savages was fierce and determined.
Besides, the ridge of the plateau was well defended by a good trench-shelter with traverses, that the work might not be able to be taken by assault in rear by the escarpment.
The Burgundians immediately bringing up planks and ladders rushed to the assault through the narrow breach.
By a kind of tacit agreement the day following the assault passed without fighting.
However there was no breach, and an assault could not be attempted.
They prefer getting killed in an assault under unfavourable conditions to the safe, though painful, labour which in the course of some days would secure the capture of the place without much loss.
Surrounded by the enemy's fire, and the outer intrenchment taken, a freshassault would place it in the power of the enemy.
We must resist this assaultwith vigour, and then we will take advantage of his exhaustion and disorder to carry out our plan of flight.
The assault on the western side had continued for some time, when a vast number of the enemy threw themselves on the northern salient, whose towers were partly destroyed.
About five o'clock the signal for the assault was given.
The assault was vigorous and vigorously met, but the people of the cite had only a thin front to oppose to a compact assaulting column; and towards midday the Franks remained decidedly masters of the breach (Fig.
The garrison may sustain the assault to the last, and sell the possession of the debris of its work dearly; but in this case the final result is not doubtful.
He thought the enemy would not attempt an assault with a river at their back, even should they succeed in crossing it.
For a few moments the fire was heavy, but the Boers knew themselves bested, and on the soldiers raising the cheer that precedes the actual assault they rushed to their horses, and the whole of Thoba Mountain was won.
We could not press the attack on the previous day because the Infantry were tired out and the enemy's position of sufficient natural strength to make an assault a serious business.
But what made him assault you in this outrageous manner?
The Transcendental doctrine has been exposed to most deadly assault on the ethical side.
Assault came against them from the quarter of common intelligence and the rational understanding.
Had the assault been less witty and more scientific, less acrimonious and more reasonable, less scornful and more consistent, its apparent success might have been permanent.
Mr. Emerson had resigned his ministry nine years before, and for the reason too that he was a Transcendentalist, but had retired to the peaceful walks of literature, and had made no actual assault on social institutions.
Nor was it long before the Osages were once more heard to howl like fiends, and the sound had hardly ceased to vibrate through the air before a singular and unexpected assault terrified the besieged party for a moment.
Joe, doubling up his fists, and preparing to assault his friend.
Had he been assailed by wild beasts, Gerald's assault could not have been more wildly daring: he cut on every side, hurling back those that rushed in upon him, and even trampling them beneath his feet.
The assault was completely repulsed, and was not renewed.
On the other hand, when the besiegers resolved on a last and grand assaultthey sent notice thereof the day before to the garrison.
He declined to assault the strong Weraroa pa--the key to the west coast.
We shall be in front, and they will not suspect any assault at the back.
Specifically, to violate; to commit an indecent assault upon (a female).
A rushing or setting upon; an attack; an assault; a storming; especially, the assault of an army.
Brooks's assault on Senator Sumner was an assassin's act, and a far more cowardly deed than that which Booth perpetrated, though it had a less tragical termination.
Another--command of which is offered to the Texan--will assault the front gateway, and engage the attention of the eight hundred troops quartered in Garrison Square.
