Assailants

One of the assailants is an acquaintance of the victim. ❋ 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. ❋ Unknown (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. ❋ Leslie Stephen (1868)

The number of the assailants was a cause of confusion. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I'm glad to see that the assailants were aprehended so quickly. ❋ Unknown (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. ❋ Unknown (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. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Their assailants were a disorderly gang of boys, fourteen and fifteen years old, but in full military uniform. ❋ 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. ❋ Various (N/A)

His protectors were anathematised, his assailants were the models of patriotism. ❋ Various (N/A)

Among the assailants was the former wife of one of the Crees, who had been carried off from him, in an earlier foray, by her present lord and master. ❋ Various (N/A)

Foremost among the assailants were our fair acquaintances of the morning, and even Olla, forgetting her matronly station and dignity, joined zealously in the flowery warfare; which was maintained with such spirit, that Barton was at length obliged to beg for quarter, promising at the same time to ` make some music 'for them, as a condition of the suspension of hostilities. ❋ Richard Archer (N/A)

It is quite true that for a time I was eager to call my assailants out one by one and settle the affair after the manner of our fathers; but being creditably informed that instead of honoring a cartel, they would make it the basis of a legal complaint and send me to the penitentiary, and having no desire to enact the role of the street assassin, I became once more a law-abiding citizen. ❋ Unknown (1905)

Her boldness helped us somewhat to delay the end, for our assailants were her father's people, and they feared to hurt her. ❋ Marmaduke William Pickthall (1905)

Most of his assailants were the foreign element in the mills. ❋ Charles Monroe Sheldon (1901)

The assailants were a dense crowd, on whom every shot told. ❋ George Sutherland (1880)

My assailants were a mixed crew, some being lackeys of the half-drowned gallant, some constables of the watch, others idle swashbucklers ready to lend a hand to any cause and against any man for a pot of ale. ❋ Talbot Baines Reed (1872)

The savage who led the assailants was a tall, powerful fellow on a splendid horse. ❋ Unknown (1859)