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

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

Now, as they were devising together, some for, some against, for men-at-arms not a few had fallen in the onfall, there came the sound of horses’ hoofs, and lo!

From A Monk of Fife by Lang, Andrew

Another onfall we may withstand, but they are many and we are few, so that the time must come when we can no longer form line across the hill.

From The White Company by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir

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