39 Verbs to Use for the Word onslaughts

The malady was an extremely infectious form of galloping consumption, the more violent since it had found in the patient a field where there was little to resist its onslaught.

The Chief of Chuen-yu in times past was appointed lord of the East Mung (mountain); besides, he dwells within the confines of your own State, and is an official of the State-worship; how can you think of making an onslaught upon him?" "It is the wish of our Chief," said Yen Yu, "not the wish of either of us ministers.

Their confidence in the British troops had grown and could scarcely be stronger, but some of them were alarmed, and throughout the early morning and day they knelt on housetops earnestly praying that our soldiers would have strength to withstand the Turkish onslaughts.

And as if by magic the shadow took on form and substance to receive the onslaught.

As I saw District Attorney Fox about to enter upon this topic, I gathered myself together to meet the onslaught, for in this matter I could not be strictly truthful, since the least slip on my part might awaken the whole world to the fact that it could only have come there through the agency of Carmel herself.

" They were in truth two,two men who alone during that night, in that solitary street, behind that heap of paving-stones, awaited the onslaught of a regiment.

At her forty-yard line Harwell stayed again for a while the onslaught of the enemy, and tried thrice to make ground through the Yates line.

It is only when they feel that one has survived their onslaught and have made a mark, that they would be sympathetic to you.

The moment drew near when the coup d'état would storm us from every side, and when we should have to sustain the onslaught of an entire army.

At that time my thoughts were full of my coming attempt to get into Germany, a Germany which was smashing through Serbia, and already planning the colossal onslaught against Verdun, the onslaught which she hoped would put France out of the war.

He might as well have spoken to the winds: our blood was up, and the spirit of fun had taken possession, so that I verily believe, had the Colonel or Brigadier been lying there, neither of them would have escaped our onslaught.

In the terrible battle of Ypres in Flanders, following the prolonged engagements along the Yser river, the Allies succeeded in repulsing the desperate German onslaught, and the German offensive was brought to a full stop.

" For a few moments or an hourno one will ever know how longwe ran round him, raising the dust, scattering the stones, breaking the branches, dodging his onslaughts.

And now, even before the threatening words were well out of his mouth, he suddenly felt a vigorous onslaught from the rear, and his own throat clutched by strong and sinewy fingers.

Then followed a roaring crasha terrible breaking onslaught upon the brushand the huge red mass seemed to flash down toward me.

A cackle from the layer brought all the rest to the spot; and I simply couldn't stay there all day to forestall the onslaught.

At this three of the young members of the boardSlavin, a wool-dealer, Debritt, a silk importer, and Saville, an insurance actuarymade a violent onslaught upon the teller, but others interposed.

At first we fancied that she intended an onslaught against ourselves, but soon discovered that a more dangerous enemy was abroad; for the old lady's bees had swarmed, and the air was full of them, whizzing by our heads like bullets.

There were three charges against him; that he had assaulted a constable, that he had committed manslaughter (Tucker was dead from spinal concussion), and that he had led a riotous onslaught on a dwelling house.

At the close is printed an extremely vigorous onslaught of Hazlitt's upon Gifford, which is better known than the poem which it illustrates.

Sometimes she and the cowgirls were shown celebrating the spring festival of Holi, Krishna syringing them with tinted water while they themselves strove to return his onslaughts by throwing red powder.

Then, with a bellow, he rushed upon Roy, who contented himself by sidestepping the furious onslaught.

My reputation as an indigent bachelor out of a job won't stand many onslaughts of company dressed as you are.

She could not understand that tigerish onslaught of Monohan's.

Vain must be the machinations of my enemies, vain the onslaughts of the rabble, so long as I fulfil a certain contract registered in hell's chancery, as I have now done these three hundred years.

39 Verbs to Use for the Word  onslaughts