16537 examples of attack in sentences

If Adam did not get much better and he had to look after things, he would certainly run some risk of a cunning attack by the president's enemies.

As fast as one assault was repulsed, fresh columns of the enemy came up the hill to the attack, our ammunition was failing, the men exhausted with the struggle, and the day was well-nigh lost

Bobbles realized that his salvation lay in quick attack and the seizure of every possible opportunity, as well as in his ability to escape the onslaughts of the heavy-weight.

She told of the attack of hysteria in her dressing-room, and that the missing woman had said that her husband would kill her some day.

After him, Mr. Bronson from the theater corroborated Miss Hope's story of Jennie Brice's attack of hysteria in the dressing-room, and told of taking her home that night.

But when I got out, and remembered that the doctors had told us she would never die in an attack, I grew more composed.

Surely some sinister genius had directed Alcatraz to the one most valuable point of attack on all the ranch, for these were the six brood mares for whose purchase Marianne Jordan had cleaned out her bank account.

Here, in that suburb of Arras, were the headquarters of the Ninth Division, and as I stepped out of the car I thrilled to the knowledge that I was treading ground forever to be famous as the starting-point of the Highland Brigade in the attack of April 9, 1917.

One of the great reasons for the preliminary bombardment that usually precedes an attack is to cut this wire.

Had he been one of those who had come through the attack, gloriously, to victory, so that he could look back upon that day so long as he lived?

On both sides a signal is given when the sentry sees that there is to be a gas attack, in order that the men may have time to don the clumsy gas masks that are the only protection against the deadly fumes.

He was a German dogone of the prisoners of war taken in the great attack.

His old masters hadn't bothered to call him and take him with them when the Highlanders came along, and so he had stayed behind as part of the spoils of the attack.

Many had been killed; many had been so badly wounded that they lay somewhere behind, or had been picked up already by the Red Cross men who followed them across the field of the attack.

It was just an ordinary-looking pen, and it was fair lootI thought some chap had meant to write a letter, and forgotten his pen when our attack came.

I am just a little afraid of aa return attack.

The conviction accordingly forces itself upon us that, if we want to attack the problem of building up any of these important alkaloids artificially, we must turn to these bases as our starting point.

These teeth may be useful for defensive fighting, as a guard to the head, but could not serve for attack.

The station he was connected with was back in rear of what, previous to the attack, had been the British forward line.

It said: "Heavy attack is developing and being pressed strongly on our center a-a-a.[Footnote:

It came from the forward trench on the left, and merely said briefly that the attack on the center was spreading to them and that they were holding it with some difficulty.

The Turks, obedient to their orders, contented themselves with repelling these minute stings, keeping their own side of the frontier, and waiting till the attack developed to take up a solid and thoroughly prepared offensive.

The flurry over and quiet restored, the heat, the excitement, and the hard and unremitting work and anxiety of that month of May told on me, and I broke down with an attack of nervous prostration and acute dyspepsia, by which I was quite incapacitated from movement.

"Ariovistus is making vigorous preparations," was "There are many other Celts, some of whom have already crossed the Rhine undoubtedly to assist him, while others have collected on the very bank of the river to attack us suddenly," was another.

[-50-] The Romans, when their warriors neither advanced against them nor fled but stood quietly in the same spot as if on towers, likewise laid aside first of all their short spears which could not be used: and as they could not with their swords fight in close combat nor reach the others' heads, where alone the latter, fighting with them exposed, were vulnerable, they threw down their shields and made an attack.

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