onfall

Example Sentences

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Such were the evil tidings, which put me in sore fear for my brother Robin, one that, in such an onfall, would go far, as beseemed his blood. 

From A Monk of Fife by Lang, Andrew

"Mon Dieu!" he exclaimed as he saw the tremendous onfall of the cavalrymen upon his helpless infantry, "how terrible are those gray horsemen!"

From The Eagle of the Empire A Story of Waterloo by Brady, Cyrus Townsend

All is afire with neigh of steeds and onfall of the men.

From The Æneids of Virgil Done into English Verse by Morris, William

“You shall hear how the onfall goes, belike,” they said, “and to-morrow shall be your judgment.”

From A Monk of Fife by Lang, Andrew

None the less I hoped in my heart that his secret tidings of the Burgundian onfall had not come through a priest, and namely a cordelier.

From A Monk of Fife by Lang, Andrew