Citations:assaults
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English citations of assaults
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- 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
- So they did; and when they came there, they harnessed him from head to foot with what was of proof, lest, perhaps, he should meet with assaults in the way.
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick:
- Nor is it to be gainsaid, that in some of these instances it has been declared that the interval of time between the two assaults could not have exceeded very many days.