assail
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These letters from Provincial Blues Assail us daily by the dozen!
From Ban and Arriere Ban by Lang, Andrew
No grief, no fears Assail him further, he may scorn the event.
From The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume 2 Jewish poems: Translations by Lazarus, Emma
A peal of bells, a merry shout Assail his ear: he gazes out Upon a world to him all gray, And snarls, "Why, this is Christmas Day!"
From The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar by Howells, William Dean
Now other cries Assail their ears; by graybeards blam'd; "Sirrah, you ought to be asham'd To ride and let your father walk!"
From Aesop, in Rhyme Old Friends in a New Dress by Park, Marmaduke
Alfonso lives; e'en now his troops Assail our walls.
From The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 5, May 1810 by Carpenter, S. C. (Stephen Cullen)
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