assailants

One of the assailants is an acquaintance of the victim.

Montgomery County crime report Post 2010

The Confederate ram Arkansas has been blown up on the Mississippi, but whether by her owners, by accident, or by her assailants is as yet uncertain.

Foreign and Colonial News 1862

It is enough if I call their assailants an ugly name or so, and at times begin to write what might be the opening pages of the preface to some very great work of the future.

Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) Leslie Stephen 1868

The number of the assailants was a cause of confusion.

Chapter 14 2010

I'm glad to see that the assailants were aprehended so quickly.

Senator's daughter is carjacked 2009

"The saddest thing is that my assailants were my neighbors, with whom I had played when I was young," says Suresh, a 19-year-old vocational student with slash wounds on his body and head.

Murder In Malaysia 2007

The only provocation these men offered their assailants was their garb – the combination of turban and flowing beard,which, to most Americans, suggests an Arab.

In US, turban, beard still hair-raisers 2004

Their assailants were a disorderly gang of boys, fourteen and fifteen years old, but in full military uniform.

Space Michener, James 1982

But in this case, as in most others growing out of rumors, no one could ever say who the lady or her so-called assailants were.

The Journal of Negro History, Volume 1, January 1916 Various

His protectors were anathematised, his assailants were the models of patriotism.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847 Various