onfall

Example Sentences

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Was there not some fashion of onfall at Bridport?'

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

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

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

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

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