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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
assail .
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Examples
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Speaking about Rove's latest vexation of conservative momentum, a critical comment he made recently about Sarah Palin's lack of presidential "gravitas," conservative radio show host Mark Levin assailed the former Bush brain, calling him "yesterday's operative" who had a problem keeping his mouth shut.
Karl Rove Bashed By Conservative As 'Our Joe Biden' The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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Speaking about Rove's latest vexation of conservative momentum, a critical comment he made recently about Sarah Palin's lack of presidential "gravitas," conservative radio show host Mark Levin assailed the former Bush brain, calling him "yesterday's operative" who had a problem keeping his mouth shut.
Karl Rove Bashed By Conservative As 'Our Joe Biden' The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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Tales of the most infamous and glaring falsehood were invented, and I was again assailed by pamphlets, by paragraphs, and caricatures, and all the [Page 185] artillery of slander, while the only being to whom I then looked up for protection was so situated as to be unable to afford it.
Memoirs of Mary Robinson Mary Elizabeth Robinson 1895
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Catholic bishop of Ossory, who lived at the time these acts were still in force, records that "the priest-catchers 'occupation became exceedingly odious both to Protestants and Catholics," and that himself had seen "ruffians of this calling assailed with a shower of stones, flung by both Catholics and Protestants."
A Popular History of Ireland : from the Earliest Period to the Emancipation of the Catholics - Volume 2 Thomas D'Arcy McGee 1846
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Catholic bishop of Ossory, who lived at the time these acts were still in force, records that "the priest-catchers 'occupation became exceedingly odious both to Protestants and Catholics," and that himself had seen "ruffians of this calling assailed with a shower of stones, flung by both Catholics and Protestants."
A Popular History of Ireland : from the Earliest Period to the Emancipation of the Catholics — Complete Thomas D'Arcy McGee 1846
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Arroyo, in his speech delivered in Filipino, assailed lawmakers who he said abused the privilege speech by using offensive language that disrespected a colleague.
WN.com - Articles related to Aquino says Philippines to be more investor friendly 2010
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Arroyo, in his speech delivered in Filipino, assailed lawmakers who he said abused the privilege speech by using offensive language that disrespected a colleague.
WN.com - Articles related to Aquino says Philippines to be more investor friendly 2010
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But it seems clear from their being described as assailed by tempests in the north, which compelled them to run into Brittany for safety, that they were not far distant from Dieppe when the storms overtook them; and must have been either on their way out or on their return to that port.
The Voyage of Verrazzano A Chapter in the Early History of Maritime Discovery in America Henry Cruse Murphy 1846
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One word assailed the CPM today from every direction.
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But Roy Blount Jr. the president of the Authors Guild, describing the Kindle voices as "quite listenable," has weighed in with concern that writers will be "assailed" by the new feature, because "Kindle 2 is not paying anyone for audio rights."
The Kindle 2 audio-reading feature: Convenient, compromised, contentious 2009
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