assailant

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“When Doe 6 sees Assailant 5 on campus, she becomes scared and sometimes physically sick,” it states.

From Washington Post • Nov. 30, 2017

Assailant Thomson and Victim Meuler, both automobile men, had taken to each other at their first chance meeting two years ago.

From Time Magazine Archive

And that grey Grand Old Assailant, who's expert At beat and re-beat, press, and graze, and bind, Will try his best at a disabling hurt; It is not mere parade that's in his mind.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98 February 15, 1890 by Various

Broglio is all assembled, 35,000 strong; his Assailant, with the Hereditary Prince come in, counts rather under 30,000.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 19 by Carlyle, Thomas

And as an ev'ning dragon came, Assailant on the perched roosts And nests in order rang'd Of tame villatic fowl.

From Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature by Bartlett, John