onfall

Example Sentences

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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

For our part of the onfall, the English had made but a feigned attack on the mill, wherefore the bale-fires were lit, to our undoing. 

From A Monk of Fife by Lang, Andrew

"Aye," nodded Sir Benedict, "and shall march south to cut off our retreat if haply any of us escape Sir Rollo's onfall."

From Beltane the Smith by Farnol, Jeffery

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

“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