" It was not the first time Philip had been made angry by him, but Tom had never before been assailed with verbal missiles that he understood so well.
He was now experiencing something worse than a simple deficit: he was assailed by the vulgar hateful trials of a man who has bought and used a great many things which might have been done without, and which he is unable to pay for, though the demand for payment has become pressing.
Lydgate, inclined to be sarcastic on the superstitious faith of the people in the efficacy of "the bill," while nobody cared about the low state of pathology, sometimes assailed Will with troublesome questions.
The stench that assailed him turned him horribly sick.
" Then the brutal minions of the law fell upon the hapless Toad; loaded him with chains, and dragged him from the Court House, shrieking, praying, protesting; across the marketplace, where the playful populace, always as severe upon detected crime as they are sympathetic and helpful when one is merely "wanted," assailed him with jeers, carrots, and popular catch-words; past hooting school children, their innocent faces lit up with the pleasure they ever derive from the sight of a gentleman in
The same arguments assailed her again; she must go, she should go, and they would not hear of a refusal.
For now that Rose was not able to say her prayers she was being assailed by every sort of weakness: vanity, sensitiveness, irritability, pugnacity—strange, unfamiliar devils to have coming crowding on one and taking possession of one's swept and empty heart.
" She had risen; and now at last a fear assailed him.
Hitherto he had thought it was some fiend fighting him, but darker suspicions assailed him now.
I am not interested in your personal business" That night after the girl went to sleep, Silver Nose tiptoed in and put a carnation in her hair When Silver Nose went out the next morning, the first thing the girl did was go and open the forbidden door She was instantly assailed by smoke, flames, and howls of the damned souls, in whose midst she spotted her sister "Sister, free me from this Hell!
When the Ass saw that the huge beast could be assailed with impunity, he let drive at his forehead with his heels.
