The other wings attacked each other, too, in the most furious manner, and for three hours it was doubtful which party would be successful.
Thus a party of men, however desperate, may beattacked without much danger to the assailants, provided that the force which the assailants bring against them is overwhelming.
To destroy this bridge, Timur one night made a sally from one of the gates, and attacked the men who were stationed to guard the bridge.
Here, however, he was attacked by a large body of his enemies, and was reduced to such straits that he was obliged to send couriers off at once to Temujin to come with his intrepids and save him.
Thereupon the Policeman left the man in a fit andattacked the Citizen, who, after receiving several severe contusions, ran away.
Philosophers Three A Bear, a Fox, and an Opossum were attacked by an inundation.
The next morning he landed some of his men by the boats, and attacked the village on the water side, while another detachment crossed the ford and making a circuit assaulted it in the rear.
Old Blunderbore went well on the whole, not counting a few minor ailments of second childhood which attacked him occasionally when he saw a stiff hill ahead, or when he had heard me say I was in a hurry.
Sending the Dutch troops on first, Vere attacked the enemy vigorously with his infantry and drove them back to the inclosure of Loo.
He had arranged to bribe his master's two servants to ride away when they attacked the gang, and also to settle with the muleteers so that they should take no part in the affair.
He then attacked and captured a fort on the bank of the Rhine, opposite the town of Wesel.
The Spaniards gallantly waded across and attacked the palisades, but were repulsed in their endeavour to climb them.
He found Jacques in possession, and learned that the family had weeks before left the crypt and reoccupied the house, but had again taken refuge there when the Huguenots attacked the town.
Standing on this rocky tongue of land jutting out at the entrance to this splendid bay it ought to be impregnable, since it can only be attacked on the side facing that sandy isthmus.
Not a very intimate acquaintance, Gerald; but if you take the trouble to go into the court-yard of the inn when we get back you will see one of those rascally muleteers who were in league with the robbers who attacked us on the way.
The chance of this, however, was remote, as the fast-rowing galleys could almost always make their escape should the vessel they attacked prove too strong to be captured.
On the east side three strong battalions of the enemy attacked the outwork across the Geule, known as the Spanish Half-moon.
One galleon was driven on the Faroe Islands, a second on the Orkneys, and a third on the Isle of Mull, where it was attacked by the natives and burned with almost every one on board.
But while the imposing array of cavalry was attracting the king's attention, Parma moved off with the main body of his army, threw a division across the river on a pontoon bridge, and attacked Lagny on both sides.
Now, my servant, young as he is, has taken part in much fighting in the Netherlands, and I myself have had some experience with my sword; but if we were attacked by robbers we should naturally stand neutral.
He attacked them ravenously, but presently was talking again: "Man, man; you ought to have been with me.
From this town the painted and drunken warriors had come the winter before and attacked the Stickeens, killing old Tow-a-att, Moses and another of our Christian Indians.
Without this belief there can be no doubt that he would have attacked Austria before she could have collected her forces, and Metternich seems to have dreaded the result.
The people also, excited by secret agents, attacked other French posts, where they committed the same excesses.
Vandamme, profiting by the negligence of the new Hanseatic troops, who had the defence of the great islands of the Elbe, attacked them one night in the month of May.
He had expected to have his house attacked at night, presumably while he was at home; but he had felt that it was not necessary for him to stay there to make sure.
It developed that Hoden didn't accuse anybody, didn't know who attacked him.
I've an idea that Steele's house will be attacked by the gang to-night, and destroyed, same as the jail was this afternoon.
The soldiers of the great Northwest had attacked a citadel of the rebellion, and captured it, with sixteen thousand of its defenders.
In Napoleon's time, the confidence of the rank and file was such that time and again he was saved from defeat by the feeling of the attacked corps or detachment that it must hold its ground, or probably imperil the army.
They saw this army attacked at every disadvantage, rally at the call of a chief worthy of it, and who was a type of its character and its lofty motives, and then bravely endure a storm unparalleled on this continent.
On the morning of July 28th, just as the command was breaking camp at Stony Lake, we were attacked by Indians, in full force.
Before the lifeboat returned a German cruiser came out and attacked her, forcing her to abandon the lifeboat.
The young man, aroused to a frenzy, attackedthe scoundrel.
They informed me that the Germans attacked the town during a dense fog, and for two days the bombardment never ceased.
Immediately they were attackedby a group of French peasants armed with pitchforks and scythes.
The Ariadne attacked gamely, but a shell plumped her boilers, putting half of them out of commission.
But because the proud Prussians attacked our country I had to leave and could not bring home a few gold coins for my family.
And so saying, she seized a long stick and attacked the Rajah, calling out loudly to her husband and sons, who came running to her aid.
Possibly, too, they may have been attacked and some of them captured and taken captive to Mayan cities, and forced to superintend building operations there.
For the next half-century Yucatan was the prey of pirates, and Merida was attacked again in 1684.
The tapir loves water, and when attacked by a jaguar will, where possible, take to a river or lake, diving and plunging.
It enveloped the insect--and the ant seemed to be attacked by a strange convulsion.
Burl burst through the golden thicket and attacked the ascent.
Before he came out upon the ice again the dogs had scented the bear, and at once attacked him.
It had been alarmed by us when we attacked the first, and had gone a long way out over the ice; it had then returned to look for its companion, and Johansen had shot it.
We saw several walruses in the vicinity, but fortunately escaped being attacked by any of them.
The dogs at first attacked him once or twice, but after a short resistance he jumped into the water, and crossed over two broad lanes, which it took the dogs a long time to get round.
True, the passage up from the engine-room had been cleared for this emergency, but this was a very narrow hole to get through with heavy bags, and no one could tell how long this hole would keep open when the ice once attacked us in earnest.
The dogs seem to be attacked with a paralysis of the legs; they fall down, and have the greatest difficulty in rising.
Because the men who attackedhim would have worn hats," replied the general, without the slightest hesitation.
Michel was probably not less embarrassed than the notary himself, and he welcomed Bertha as a battalion formed in a hollow square and attacked on all sides welcomes an auxiliary who will strengthen its defence.
The order was enforced immediately in the case of a young girl who came to ask assistance of the baroness for her father, just attacked by the fever.
The Whites were immediately attacked again at Château-Thébaud by a detachment of fresh troops sent by General Dermoncourt to pursue them.
Now the interval between the time we arrived and halted and the moment our guide was attacked was too short to allow of their making a long detour to another ford--no, they must have forded close by.
If a government convoy or a diligence came along, he attacked and robbed it.
After being two or three days in their company, he attacked the pinioned drake with great fury and drove him off, and took possession of the duck.
The Spurgeons were going to sail into the Thompsons on the twenty-third, but Jed Thompson has beat them to it by a day, and attacked them on the twenty-second.
On the way back we were attacked from ambush and the lieutenant's horse was shot from under him.
In about three weeks from the time she died, one and then the other of those standing on either side of her were attacked in the same way, and with but two days between.
The sixth attacked the horses of the army of Arnoul in Lorraine, in 888.
Out of two hundred and eighteen cattle belonging to three farmers, one hundred and thirteen were attackedby this disease, and eighty-three of them died.
Then a third was attacked and died, the interval growing wider from the attack of one animal to that of another, until he had lost eight oxen and cows.
Amongst the animals attacked by the disease, how many recover, and under what circumstances?
The first animals in a herd to be attacked are generally those in a full, plethoric condition.
Animals attacked with this disease are generally in a plethoric condition.
The one which was attributed to the comet, and which principally attacked cattle, appeared in France in 943 Almost every animal perished.
Then he attacked him through his vanity: "Aren't you a man?
Anderida is but sixty miles away, and if these barbarians be, as Aurelius thinks, inflamed with wine and blood, they will not stop to think whether or not they attack those who have attacked them.
And in time, I, with others, was sent off to the mines, and there we labored until word came that men were needed to help our lord, who was attacked in his household by barbarians.
Miot attacked him the first night, he would not then perhaps have been so roughly handled as now; for then he was prepared for a visit, which this night was rather unexpected.
The Belgian journals were attackedthrough their pockets.
And after this generous and heroic effort, it would be found that the four institutions that have been attacked were more venerable and impeccable than ever, and that the question, instead of advancing, had receded.
Really, when one has fixed one's eyes too long on certain aspects of this spectacle, even the strongest minds are attackedwith vertigo.
So saying, they attacked them and drove them to flight, leaving their prisoner behind, nearly as dead with joy as she was before with fear and apprehension.
Lastly, as if he had not done enough to offend the nobles, Louis in 1464 attackedtheir hunting rights, touching them in their tenderest part.
In 1340 Edward returned to Flanders; on his way he attacked the French fleet which lay at Sluys, and utterly destroyed it.
While his northern frontier was thus exposed, Louis found equal danger threatening him on the east; on this aide, however, he managed to buy off the Swiss, who had attacked the duchy of Burgundy.
The first was the sudden illness which attacked Mademoiselle de Tournon, the daughter of the lady of my bedchamber, a young person, accomplished, with every grace and virtue, and for whom I had the most perfect regard.
Marguerite's Husband Attacked with a Fit of Epilepsy.
Pursuing the road to Montauban, we stopped at a little town called Eause, where, in the night, the King my husband was attacked with a high fever, accompanied with most violent pains in his head.
They withdrew to Jargeau, where they were attacked and routed with great loss.
The musicians, who had just attacked and subdued the Meistersaenger, began a sob of Weber's that had been strangled into a waltz, and as the measures flowed they brought her that pacification which music alone can bring.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "attacked" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
