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Definition of Assailing
1. assail [v] - See also: assail
Literary usage of Assailing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1912)
"The state courts of New York have decided that such taking is not lawful, but is
to be deemed the act of pirates or assailing thieves, ..."
2. The Invasion of the Crimea: Its Origin and an Account of Its Progress Down by Alexander William Kinglake (1875)
"... wing of tuted the left wine of the assailing force, had been ing force marching
up nearly abreast of the great trunk ..."
3. The Invasion of the Crimea: Its Origin and an Account of Its Progress Down by Alexander William Kinglake (1887)
"... insistence others meet for attack — had not ceased to be expedi- counselling
plans put forward day after day which, assailing whether directly or not, ..."
4. The Annual Register edited by Edmund Burke (1823)
"... followed by prodigious loss to the assailing power, closed with a prospect of
great changes in the relative state of Europe; but the extent to which ..."
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