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Definition of Assailers
1. assailer [n] - See also: assailer
Literary usage of Assailers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Topography and Antiquities of Rome: Including Recent Discoveries Made by Richard Burgess (1831)
"Nor was it possible to resist the assailers as they climbed up by the contiguous
buildings, which, ... It is here a question whether the assailers ..."
2. The Chronicles of Froissart by Jean Froissart, John Bourchier Berners, George Campbell Macaulay (1908)
"... saw that mischief fall on the first assailers, they were glad and as fresh and
... in the strait all the first assailers, of whom there were many slain. ..."
3. George Eliot's Works by George Eliot (1893)
"Felix followed close, determined, if he could, to rescue both assailers and
assaulted from the worst consequences. His mind was busy with possible devices. ..."
4. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1887)
"... full accord with its most violent assailers, when lie joined m in pressing
the king to dismiss ..."
5. History of Civilization in England by Henry Thomas Buckle (1866)
"... that the assailers of the existing fabric should turn against political abuses
the energy which the preceding generation had reserved for religious ones ..."
6. The American Fur Trade of the Far West: A History of the Pioneer Trading by Hiram Martin Chittenden (1901)
"... on their savage assailers through the skylights and companion-way, which had
the effect of clearing the ship in a short time, and long before night ..."
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