The Laurier government died in 1911, not so much from the assaultsof its enemies as from hardening of its arteries and from old age.
Merry Del Val was in Canada as apostolic delegate; and though care was taken to save the faces of the bishops, their concerted assaults upon the government ceased.
Here he would have seen the ice-sheet presenting a steep face to the assaults of the Atlantic, and breaking away in massive tabular bergs, like those which are calved by the ice-cap of the Antarctic regions.
Scotland from the rude assaults of the Atlantic billows is not much visited by the ordinary tourist.
Her soft hand put aside the assaults of wrath, And calmly broke in twain The fiery shafts of pain, And rent the nets of passion from her path.
Meanwhile Lydon, who had hitherto defended himself with great skill and valor, began to give way before the vigorous assaults of the practiced Roman; his arm grew tired, his eye dizzy, he breathed hard and painfully.
Cattle were turned into the provision-grounds of the negroes, thus destroying their only means of support; and assaults of the most wanton and brutal description were committed on many of the peasantry.
That not a single magistrate in the city took the least notice either of the barbarities inflicted upon Fife, or of the assaults upon his friends, knocking them down, &c.
And all the time the bluejacket kept up his deadly assaults on Ned's nerve centers, pressing them deftly and producing excruciating pain.
He could not seem to escape the assaults of those hawklike hands.
For a time he evaded their assaults by turning himself into various shapes, assuming the likeness successively of Zeus and Cronus, of a young man, of a lion, a horse, and a serpent.
Now, as there are many assaults upon all commandments, so it happens also in this commandment that we must live among many people who do us harm, so that we have cause to be hostile to them.
It is now the 12th of December, and on the 19th Junius assaults the throne.
As the night firing is sometimes varied by more serious attacks, and even actual assaults and sword rushes, it is thought advisable to have the ditch of the entrenchment towards the enemy.
Perhaps the reader is tired of the long recital of the monotonous succession of assaults and repulses.
The enemy now tried to force their way back into the bazaar, but the entrance was guarded by the troops and held against all assaults till about 10.
There were bruited about rumours of absurd miracles, which demanded in the name of Heaven vengeance for the assaults made against religion.
It is not strange that these fortifications defied the assaults of barbarism upon the civilized life of the world for more than a thousand years.
Whirlit, Whisk and Keener had left him, at the beck of Madam Breeze, and now joined that lusty Elf in their assaults upon Fort Spinder.
They could imagine the wild natures shut up within Fort Spinder venting their native savagery in murderous assaults upon one another.
A few more stout assaults and the roof must give way dragging with it walls and all.
He had repelled direct assaults with success except, perhaps, at Muddy Creek where Baird and Harker had ditched and covered their men, in the open, at one of his angles, and then had run squarely over his barricades.
On all sides instances of these treacherous assaults multiplied; and though varying somewhat in their method of execution, each and every one of them belonged unmistakably to the same class of crime.
Murders and criminal assaultswere as common out there as petty larcenies at home.
Of ghastly nature, and enormous size, One form assaults my sight, and chills my blood, And shakes my frame.
The noblest truths; there strongest motives sting; There sacred violence assaults the soul; There, nothing but compulsion is forborne.
It is often perhaps not easy to draw the line of demarcation between measures of wise precaution against the assaults of a dangerous fanaticism, and unchristian modes of punishment.
This was a passing, but awful, warning to Christendom, how much she needed the strong arm of a powerful Protector, and that union alone would enable her to resist the assaults and inroads of barbarous nations.
She endured, according to Raleigh's computation, "eight hundred shot of great artillery, besides many assaults and entries.
They assailed me with artful questions and insidious offers of correspondence in the future; but I was perpetually on my guard, and parried their assaults with inward laughter.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "assaults" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
