onfall

Example Sentences

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“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

Yet, considering that trained men and a numerous horse have great advantage by daylight, I should be in favour of a camisado or night onfall.'

From Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir

The allusion is to that onfall upon the reformers, Cranmer, Latimer, &c., which had escaped from Milton's pen in 1642 to the great grief of his friends.

From Milton by Pattison, Mark

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

Such a purpose as the trapping of the King by a secret and sudden onfall was the mere commonplace of Scottish politics.

From Historical Mysteries by Lang, Andrew