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  • Keeping the blade to my neck, my assailant pushed me against the outhouse wall and stepped around to face me.†   (source)
  • He pleads with his Silver assailant, begging.†   (source)
  • Even some of my playmates became my assailants.†   (source)
  • He described his assailant in detail.†   (source)
  • If what you say is correct, then we have to assume that Missy's assailant left it here on purpose.†   (source)
  • My assailant murdered me.†   (source)
  • If the armed assailant returned, he would have to get past my dog first.†   (source)
  • Badly bruised and scraped and poked by cactus spines, she is in shock and utterly convinced that she was assaulted in the cave and that Aziz must have been her assailant.†   (source)
  • Between 1995 and 1997, when he was shot dead by an unknown assailant, he slept with at least 100 women and — it turned out later — infected at least 30 of them with HIV.†   (source)
  • Seward's attacker was a mystery man — Stanton did not even know the assailant's name.†   (source)
  • And he had reason: the assailants had awakened him with a rifle in his stomach, and a commander in rags, his face smeared with charcoal, had shone a light on him and asked him if he was Liberal or Conservative.†   (source)
  • She was barely four foot eleven and did not look as though she could put up much resistance if he were an assailant who had forced his way into her apartment.†   (source)
  • Then the four guards entered, and all was confusion as Nasuada felt them drag her assailant off her.†   (source)
  • The manager of a Wal-Mart McDonald's in Durham, North Carolina, was shot during a robbery by two masked assailants.†   (source)
  • The skin was torn completely off his knuckles from the blows he had dealt Dixon, but he was lost in his anger and his only thought was to get the next assailant.†   (source)
  • She had seen the shoestring creek bottoms between the endless mountains among which she was born and bred, the high-hung, cup-like depressions of their inner fastnesses; she was used to the cool, clear, boulder-checked mountain creeks that fight their way down those steeps like an armed man beating off assailants at every turn; she had been taken a number of times to Bledsoe, the tiny settlement at the foot of Unaka Old Bald, where there were two stores, a blacksmith shop, the post-office and the church.†   (source)
  • Our breastworks are strengthened, and among the means of defense are a great number of barrels, filled with stone and sand, arranged in front of our works, which are to be put in motion and made to roll down the hill, to break the ranks and legs of assailants as they advance.†   (source)
  • He looked about imploringly for help in defending his country's future against the obnoxious calumnies of this sly and sinful assailant.†   (source)
  • An Iranian student at Texas AI was beaten by two unknown assailants, and Moody worried that he might suffer the same fate.†   (source)
  • Max's arm ran red with blood, but the creature screamed with pain from the iron grip of its assailant.†   (source)
  • Her assailant wasn't just trying to act out his nightmare but wanted to shame her as well.†   (source)
  • The trick with fighting multiple assailants is to avoid fighting them all at the same time.†   (source)
  • Anyone who is familiar with cats knows that they do not care for a determined assailant.†   (source)
  • John, Jack, and Charles moved closer, but John was the first to realize what was odd about their assailant.†   (source)
  • I had been raped in May, I said, I was now back on campus and had seen my assailant.†   (source)
  • She was being attacked-forced into this act-though her assailant remained invisible to us.†   (source)
  • They both hit the concrete at precisely the same time-Tom on his feet, ready to deliver another blow; his assailant on his back, breathing hard, ready for the grave.†   (source)
  • He had been puzzled to find her dressed in the dark robes of the queen's attendants and not in white and had glanced around the room seeking another assailant, but he and the woman had been alone, and he supposed the white he had seen had been a trick of the moonlight.†   (source)
  • "Yes," the Chairman says, and a gleam in his eye shows he now recognizes who his bearded assailant is.†   (source)
  • He lurched to his left; his assailant was lifted off the ground, his legs spiraling in the air as he was thrown across the deck, his face and neck impaled between the wheels of a winch.†   (source)
  • An assailant could just as easily have cut across the property from Third on foot, just as Louise had intended to do.†   (source)
  • Had he had the reach, he would have pulled' the trumpeter's ears, shoved a fist into his mouth, and ripped at his nostrils, but his hands did all this in the air in front of the assailant's face.†   (source)
  • In the next instant, he heard the dry crack of a gunshot, then three answering cracks in swift succession, like an angry hand slapping a sudden assailant.†   (source)
  • Regis scrambled to his feet and backed away, step for step with his assailant.†   (source)
  • He had been a crime reporter long enough to have seen more than a few cases in which the victim had been targeted not because of anything he had done, not because of money or other possessions that his assailant desired, but merely because of what he had known.†   (source)
  • I got to hear about rapes and gunshot wounds and hate crimes, people who knew their attackers, people who didn't, people whose assailants were punished and those who weren't.†   (source)
  • Lucas Cantley's wife Jessica almost died after being shot by an unknown assailant while playing croquet with my grandfather.†   (source)
  • They will tackle and subdue the assailant without fear for their own lives.†   (source)
  • Maybe it's not her assailant she's protecting.†   (source)
  • Before making his escape, the assailant waved the bloody weapon and shouted, "Khaybar, Khaybar, ya-Yahud!"†   (source)
  • The punch came from behind me, delivered by an invisible assailant, a perfect blow to the kidney.†   (source)
  • A classical face-to-face rape, however repellent, would at least permit the small gratification of knowing your assailant's features, of making him know that you knew, quite aside from the chance it presented, through a grimace or a hot level stare or even tears, of registering something: hatred, fright, malediction, disgust, possibly just derision.†   (source)
  • It wasn't possible, either, for a man who stunk like a backed-up sewer to sneak up on a cop who was sitting at his desk and bind him and gag him and blindfold him and never leave so much as an impression of who the assailant was, though the cop had smelled him often.†   (source)
  • For a second she couldn't1 think what had happened; then she too felt the red-hot needle of pain, and looking down saw their assailants.†   (source)
  • Big hardshells bruise themselves, assailant: he is fallen on his back, legs squiggling.†   (source)
  • In the ensuing struggle at the conclusion of the services, the woman, who was a member of the choir, is believed to have received fatal ice-pick injuries to a vital organ, then to have wrested the weapon from her assailant and paid him back in kind.†   (source)
  • I wait, frozen, for the woods to come alive with assailants.   (source)
    assailants = people who attack
  • fought off my assailant
  • The wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interest than it is theirs to find his weak point.   (source)
  • ...there had been no altercation; the assailant had come in so silently and suddenly, that she had been felled before she could look round.   (source)
  • The article gave no name to the assailant nor any indication of what had happened to him.†   (source)
  • But it complicates things for the assailant.†   (source)
  • You know, of course, why it is important for me to know the identity and motive of my assailant?†   (source)
  • In that sense, the assailant committed murder.†   (source)
  • His assailant fell to the floor of the soiled lobby.†   (source)
  • His assailant stopped long enough for Thomas to roll over.†   (source)
  • Vilyak slowed the images to a crawl as the assailants closed like a noose.†   (source)
  • He spun and kicked the assailant in the face, realizing at the last second that it was a woman.†   (source)
  • Mistakenly, through Christmas and New Year's, I joyfully pictured my assailant in jail.†   (source)
  • Bellowing, Prusias whipped about to strike at his assailant.†   (source)
  • The orc, now visibly unnerved, shot back an angry threat at its giant assailant.†   (source)
  • She screamed and covered her face with her hands, and Joe batted at the assailant with one arm.†   (source)
  • A sharp blade was pressed against David's throat by an assailant who cradled the Book of Origins.†   (source)
  • That you didn't see your assailant again until Marshall Street?†   (source)
  • As a precaution, the demon invoked various detection spells, fearing an unseen assailant.†   (source)
  • But with an ear-splitting howl of victory his assailant was on him.†   (source)
  • Like a miniature waterspout he rushed his assailant.†   (source)
  • And the more time the bodyguard has, the better his ability to read the mind of any potential assailant.†   (source)
  • I get a glimpse of my assailant's face.†   (source)
  • Katherine heard a scream of pain behind her as the brilliant floodlights seared into her assailant's hyper dilated pupils with over twenty-five-million candlepower of light.†   (source)
  • Every night he could be heard whimpering mournfully and every morning they found him lying by the door, chin on his front paws, blinking up at his assailants with melancholy, unaccusing eyes.†   (source)
  • Joe was made to say in court what the victim remembered her assailant saying to her, but she testified that Joe's voice "could very easily be" that of the perpetrator.†   (source)
  • It took every bit of his concentration to hold on to the knife, and he kept slashing, but it was hard being so close to his assailant.†   (source)
  • The story made no mention of me or Marley or the guys across the street who set out half naked after the assailant.†   (source)
  • Gavin de Becker, who runs a security firm in Los Angeles and is the author of the book The Gift of Fear, says that the central fact in protection is the amount of "white space," which is what he calls the distance between the target and any potential assailant.†   (source)
  • He had to spend six hours in the station house, talking to police, while his assailant was released after two hours and charged, in the end, with only a misdemeanor.†   (source)
  • The story described the attack as "vicious" and the assailant as a former refugee with "suspected ties to the Taliban."†   (source)
  • Genovese was chased by her assailant and attacked three times on the street, over the course of half an hour, as thirty-eight of her neighbors watched from their windows.†   (source)
  • The walls are sturdy, and it would take quite a while to break down that door, even if your assailant had tools at hand.†   (source)
  • She looked at her assailant.†   (source)
  • In return, she broke the wing of her assailant, slashing the thin flight membrane into ribbons with her claws.†   (source)
  • More arms pulled out, only to be replaced by new ones just as Mark and Alec swung the door out and slammed the edge against the assailants again.†   (source)
  • Beside him the door trembled, groaning and shaking as their assailants tried to bludgeon their way in.†   (source)
  • The lithe, strapping Australian, his language magnificently obscene, was pummelling three separate assailants out of his personal boxing ring.†   (source)
  • Three were upon Arturo, kicking him in the ribs and beating him about the head with sticks, but his arms were upraised, and he broke free, chasing one of the assailants, with the others still upon him, until he caught him and began to rip flesh with his teeth.†   (source)
  • I've sparred with multiple opponents in the dojo, and last summer, I was one of the assistant instructors of an advanced self-defense course entitled "Multiple Assailants."†   (source)
  • Ever since a physical description of the assailant had hit the airwaves, people had been calling in with fake sightings and dead-end leads.†   (source)
  • The marine sprang to his feet and, as his Oriental adversary ran up to him, he pounded a low left hook into the young man's kidney, and followed it with a well-aimed right fist into the Oriental face, pummelling his assailant back into the store-front while screaming in agony at the pain both blows caused his scalded hands.†   (source)
  • His assailant became angrier.†   (source)
  • Miriam Wu was in Söder hospital, attacked and badly wounded by a gigantic assailant who had kidnapped her outside the apartment building on Lundagatan.†   (source)
  • I drag Drew back into the room and offer him up as an assailant and then refresh Sarah's memory on how to cause him bodily harm.†   (source)
  • The assailant was Connor Lynch.†   (source)
  • Joe slammed facedown onto the beach, with the weight of this new assailant atop him, at least two hundred pounds pinning him down.†   (source)
  • It turned out that Ryan's purpose had been to have Madison in the court, that by Madison's having waived his right to appear, all Ryan now had to prove was that a rape had taken place on May eighth and that I had identified a man I believed to be my assailant.†   (source)
  • A giant leaped through the supports and stood with its legs wide apart and its club ready, its eyes going from door to door as it tried to figure out which route the unseen assailant had taken.†   (source)
  • "Look out," Joe warned Rose, but she also saw the oncoming assailant and was already taking evasive action.†   (source)
  • His own assailant was cursing him and pushing up now from the sand, and as Joe spun around to deal with the threat, he was full of the meanness and fury that had gotten him thrown out of the youth boxing league twenty years ago, seething with church-vandalizing rage—he was an animal now, a heartless predator, cat-quick and savage—and he reacted as though thi†   (source)
  • I tried to rise to my feet, was kicked down by an unseen assailant, rose again, and helped the boy stumble into my room where we both collapsed on the floor in the darkness.†   (source)
  • In a moment Affery had thrown the stocking down, started up, caught hold of the windowsill with her right hand, lodged herself upon the window-seat with her right knee, and was flourishing her left hand, beating expected assailants off.†   (source)
  • And the assailants are still on the march, threatening other nations, great and small.†   (source)
  • The assailant had said nothing when arrested.†   (source)
  • You had no idea, I suppose, of the identity of the possible assailant?†   (source)
  • Keating stared—his throat dry—at the name of the assailant.†   (source)
  • "Free, free!" the Savage shouted, and with one hand continued to throw the soma into the area while, with the other, he punched the indistinguishable faces of his assailants.†   (source)
  • It was his opinion that she had been standing with her back to the counter (and therefore to her assailant) when the blow had been struck.†   (source)
  • ASSAILANTS THOUGHT TO BE NATIVES.†   (source)
  • He weighed between ten and twenty score, and his one object in life was to heave and weave and sidestep, until he could get at his assailant and chainp him into chops, while the assailant's one object was not to let go of the spear, clasped tight under his arm, until somebody had come to finish him off.†   (source)
  • She didn't interpret this as cowardice of the assailant but as special mark of crude love appeal, that a city-tutored rough child struggled for his instinct and was less cared about, providentially speaking, than the animal in the woods who was at least in the keeping of nature.†   (source)
  • If so, there was something in that note, some mistake, some error, that left a possible clue to the assailant.†   (source)
  • Instead, she had her back to her assailant-obviously she is reaching down tobacco or cigarettes for a customer.†   (source)
  • He had fallen into the ambush as expected, had spent some time trying to get at his assailants—who had escaped the heavy dismounted iron man easily, by jumping over hedges and ditches—and then he had set out to walk the rest of the way, in spite of his armour.†   (source)
  • It would appear therefore that Mpiring's identification of his assailant is not of itself sufficient proof that Pafuri was that man.†   (source)
  • He passed his hand over his eyes as though he were trying to wipe away the remembered image of those long rows of identical midgets at the assembling tables, those queued-up twin-herds at the entrance to the Brentford monorail station, those human maggots swarming round Linda's bed of death, the endlessly repeated face of his assailants.†   (source)
  • Toohey had not recognized his assailant when he saw him seized by policemen on the sidewalk outside the radio station.†   (source)
  • The number of the assailants was a cause of confusion.†   (source)
  • Shefford heard the rustle of sage and the dull thud of hoofs as his assailants went away.†   (source)
  • My father drew on my assailant: his honor demanded it.†   (source)
  • He hesitated one second, as if meaning to run; and in the next his assailant was upon him.†   (source)
  • He did not see any one he could take for the innkeeper's assailant.†   (source)
  • Weucha turned upon his assailant with the ferocity and agility of a tiger.†   (source)
  • Inexhaustible in the matter of grape-shot, they created explosions in their assailants' midst.†   (source)
  • The wise man throws himself on the side of his assailants.†   (source)
  • All at once, the cuirassiers, who had been the assailants, found themselves assailed.†   (source)
  • Then one advanced singly, and apparently more in the character of a herald than of an assailant.†   (source)
  • "The assailants have won the barriers, have they not?" said Ivanhoe.†   (source)
  • His shower of stone blocks was not sufficient to repel the assailants.†   (source)
  • These animals have been known to turn on their assailants and capsize their longboats.†   (source)
  • The assailants had numbers in their favor; the insurgents had position.†   (source)
  • The fresh respite which the assailants were granting to the barricade had, in fact, been prolonged.†   (source)
  • The assailants were grouped about that door.†   (source)
  • The assailants, dissatisfied, no doubt, with their shot, had not repeated it.†   (source)
  • Always an elaborately careful worker, a maker of long rows of figures, always realizing the presence of uncontrollable variables, always a vicious assailant of what he considered slackness or lie or pomposity, never too kindly to well-intentioned stupidity, he worked in the laboratories of Koch, of Pasteur, he followed the early statements of Pearson in biometrics, he drank beer and wrote vitriolic letters, he voyaged to Italy and England and Scandinavia, and casually, between two days, he married (as he might have bought a coat or hired a housekeeper) the patient and wordless daughter of a Gentile merchant.†   (source)
  • With nose serrulated by continuous spasms, hair bristling in recurrent waves, tongue whipping out like a red snake and whipping back again, ears flattened down, eyes gleaming hatred, lips wrinkled back, and fangs exposed and dripping, he could compel a pause on the part of almost any assailant.†   (source)
  • He scrambled to his feet, and perceiving, evidently, the size of his assailant, ran quickly off, shouting alarms.†   (source)
  • Because some fool, or a rogue pretending to be a fool, strikes a man, that man is to be dishonoured for his whole life, unless he wipes out the disgrace with blood, or makes his assailant beg forgiveness on his knees!†   (source)
  • For a time her own logic would convince her, then she would hear the echo again, weep, declare she was unworthy of Ronny, and hope her assailant would get the maximum penalty.†   (source)
  • The ebb-tide, which had so cruelly delayed us, was now making reparation and delaying our assailants.†   (source)
  • In another moment a knee compressed his diaphragm, and a couple of eager hands gripped his throat, but the grip of one was weaker than the other; he grasped the wrists, heard a cry of pain from his assailant, and then the spade of the navvy came whirling through the air above him, and struck something with a dull thud.†   (source)
  • My girl Lucy saw my wife's assailant.†   (source)
  • Peterson had rushed forward to protect the stranger from his assailants; but the man, shocked at having broken the window, and seeing an official-looking person in uniform rushing towards him, dropped his goose, took to his heels, and vanished amid the labyrinth of small streets which lie at the back of Tottenham Court Road.†   (source)
  • Her defender, whom she dreaded more than her assailant, having reluctantly disappeared, the farmer continued his reprimand, which Tess took with the greatest coolness, that sort of attack being independent of sex.†   (source)
  • He never knew who his assailants were, nor their motive other than robbery; and they had gotten little, for they had not found the large sum of money sewed in the lining of his coat.†   (source)
  • Right in front, the doctor was pursuing his assailant down the hill, and just as my eyes fell upon him, beat down his guard and sent him sprawling on his back with a great slash across the face.†   (source)
  • His assailant had hit him too hard, and he was suffering from concussion of the brain; and also he had been half-frozen when found, and would lose three fingers on his right hand.†   (source)
  • The base and nasty desire to vent that spite on its assailant rankles perhaps even more nastily in it than in L'HOMME DE LA NATURE ET DE LA VERITE.†   (source)
  • The Jew stepped back in this emergency, with more agility than could have been anticipated in a man of his apparent decrepitude; and, seizing up the pot, prepared to hurl it at his assailant's head.†   (source)
  • He saw that Hurry did not overrate the strength of this position in a military point of view, since it would not be easy to attack it without exposing the assailants to the fire of the besieged.†   (source)
  • The voice of her assailant was so horrible from spite and rage that it was almost a croak; but he, too, was saying something, and just as quickly and indistinctly, hurrying and spluttering.†   (source)
  • Meantime, Gabriel, ascending to the main-royal mast-head, was tossing one arm in frantic gestures, and hurling forth prophecies of speedy doom to the sacrilegious assailants of his divinity.†   (source)
  • At this unusual sound, a huge black dog came rushing to meet the daring assailant of his ordinarily tranquil abode, snarling and displaying his sharp white teeth with a determined hostility that abundantly proved how little he was accustomed to society.†   (source)
  • A more remarkable face in its quiet, resolute, and guarded struggle with an unseen assailant, was not to be beheld in all the wide dominions of sleep, that night.†   (source)
  • By a parity of reasoning, in countries governed by a democracy, where the people is perpetually drawing all authority to itself, the laws which increase or accelerate its action are the direct assailants of the very principle of the government.†   (source)
  • "Well, here we all are," said Phineas, peeping over the stone breast-work to watch the assailants, who were coming tumultuously up under the rocks.†   (source)
  • Men drilling on it could be attacked, consequently, on two sides only; and as the cleared space beyond it, in the direction of the west and south, was large, any assailants would be compelled to quit the cover of the woods before they could make an approach sufficiently near to render them dangerous.†   (source)
  • When Leather-Stocking saw his enemy fairly under headway, as Benjamin would express it, he gave his attention to the right wing of the assailants.†   (source)
  • With that concluding word, the whole assembly, exalting their pilgrim's staves, rushed round me in a body; and I, having no weapon to raise in self-defence, commenced grappling with Joseph, my nearest and most ferocious assailant, for his.†   (source)
  • He who, four hours earlier, had enticed Farfrae into a deadly wrestle stood now in the darkness of late night-time on a lonely road, inviting him to come a particular way, where an assailant might have confederates, instead of going his purposed way, where there might be a better opportunity of guarding himself from attack.†   (source)
  • Quasimodo placed himself in front of the priest, set in play the muscles of his athletic fists, and glared upon the assailants with the snarl of an angry tiger.†   (source)
  • It could honestly be said that he had stretched between himself and his assailants a network of electricity no one could clear with impunity.†   (source)
  • I add, that seven of these assailants were Knights of the Temple—and Sir Brian de Bois-Guilbert well knows the truth of what I tell you.†   (source)
  • The curtain was pulled, and Alyosha saw his assailant lying on a little bed made up on the bench and the chair in the corner under the ikons.†   (source)
  • He took it with a leap, and was half-way up the steps—up far enough to catch a glimpse of the sky blood-red with fire, of the ships alongside, of the sea covered with ships and wrecks, of the fight closed in about the pilot's quarter, the assailants many, the defenders few—when suddenly his foothold was knocked away, and he pitched backward.†   (source)
  • "Not before I have killed you, poltroon!" cried d'Artagnan, making the best face possible, and never retreating one step before his three assailants, who continued to shower blows upon him.†   (source)
  • At this slight repulse the assailants instantly withdrew, and gradually the place became as still as before the sudden tumult.†   (source)
  • Besides, there had been no altercation; the assailant had come in so silently and suddenly, that she had been felled before she could look round.†   (source)
  • Finally, even if I had wanted to be anything but magnanimous, had desired on the contrary to revenge myself on my assailant, I could not have revenged myself on any one for anything because I should certainly never have made up my mind to do anything, even if I had been able to.†   (source)
  • —and resolved to make a full disclosure if I should see any such new occasion as a new chance of helping in the discovery of the assailant.†   (source)
  • Nor are there wanting other motions of the whale in his general body, full of strangeness, and unaccountable to his most experienced assailant.†   (source)
  • There existed no reason, therefore, to dread the fire of the assailants, except as a casual bullet might find a passage through a loophole.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • It will readily be understood that by connecting the censorship of the laws with the private interests of members of the community, and by intimately uniting the prosecution of the law with the prosecution of an individual, legislation is protected from wanton assailants, and from the daily aggressions of party spirit.†   (source)
  • He caught hold of me, hugged me, tried to pull me away, crying to my assailant, 'Let go, let go, it's my father, forgive him!'†   (source)
  • At these simplest of words, spoken without passion or alarm, the assailants fell back several steps, the timid among them cowering to the ground; and they might have let him alone and gone away had not Judas walked over to him.†   (source)
  • His eye kindled, however, and a small red spot appeared on each cheek, while he cast all his energy into the effort of his arm, and threw back the weapon at his assailant.†   (source)
  • As if to strike a quick terror into them, by this time being the first assailant himself, Moby Dick had turned, and was now coming for the three crews.†   (source)
  • Under its influence (and perhaps to make up for the want of the softer feeling) I was seized with a violent indignation against the assailant from whom she had suffered so much; and I felt that on sufficient proof I could have revengefully pursued Orlick, or any one else, to the last extremity.†   (source)
  • "So your boy is a good boy, he loves his father, and he attacked me as the brother of your assailant....Now I understand it," he repeated thoughtfully.†   (source)
  • While there was an appearance of a personal conflict, between him and his colossal nephew, his mien had expressed the infallible evidences of engrossing apprehension, but now, that the authority as well as gigantic strength of the father were interposed between him and his assailant, his countenance changed from paleness to a livid hue, that bespoke how deeply the injury he had received rankled in his breast.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • Arrowhead himself had sent her to warn Mabel of the coming danger, though he was ignorant that she had stolen upon the island in the rear of the assailants, and was now intrenched in the citadel along with the object of their joint care.†   (source)
  • I should certainly have never been able to do anything from being magnanimous—neither to forgive, for my assailant would perhaps have slapped me from the laws of nature, and one cannot forgive the laws of nature; nor to forget, for even if it were owing to the laws of nature, it is insulting all the same.†   (source)
  • It might have been thrown from a window, and alighted in that particular place; or it might certainly have fallen from a scout, or an assailant, during the past night, who was obliged to abandon it to the lake, in the deep obscurity which then prevailed.†   (source)
  • They readily agreed that the point of greatest danger was that opposite to the outwork of which the assailants had possessed themselves.†   (source)
  • Before a second assailant could gain a foothold on the gallery, the formidable hunchback leaped to the head of the ladder, without uttering a word, seized the ends of the two uprights with his powerful hands, raised them, pushed them out from the wall, balanced the long and pliant ladder, loaded with vagabonds from top to bottom for a moment, in the midst of shrieks of anguish, then suddenly, with superhuman force, hurled this cluster of men backward into the Place.†   (source)
  • It was hardly to be doubted, that several vessels reported to have encountered, at such or such a time, or on such or such a meridian, a Sperm Whale of uncommon magnitude and malignity, which whale, after doing great mischief to his assailants, had completely escaped them; to some minds it was not an unfair presumption, I say, that the whale in question must have been no other than Moby Dick.†   (source)
  • With a generosity that would have rendered a Roman illustrious throughout all time, but which, in the career of one so simple and humble, would have been forever lost to the world but for this unpretending legend, Deerslayer threw all his force into a desperate effort, shoved the canoe off with a power that sent it a hundred feet from the shore, as it might be in an instant, and fell forward into the lake, himself, face downward; his assailant necessarily following him.†   (source)
  • His appearance was one of the causes of the extraordinary clamor among the assailants; who, unused to see their enemies so reckless, opened upon him with their tongues, like a pack that has the fox in view.†   (source)
  • It was not, however, by clamour that the contest was to be decided, and the desperate efforts of the assailants were met by an equally vigorous defence on the part of the besieged.†   (source)
  • But the bloody trophy in the hand of the partisan served as an incentive to the attacked, as well as to the assailants.†   (source)
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