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Sentences starting with attack

Attack property destroy it. [9]
Attack only nerved him. [11]

Sentences ending with attack

I beg of you, I beg of you," he repeated, "to occupy the position and prepare for an attack. [2]
I do not yet see the means which would give me courage to begin the attack. [10]
In this speech, which was reported to me--for it did not get into the newspapers--I was the particular object of his attack. [9]
The disease which was ultimately to strike him down had already made its preliminary attack. [4]
They were our Uhlans who with disordered ranks were returning from the attack. [2]
It was evident to anyone, military or not, that it was here the French should attack. [2]
One year was thus idly spent; albeit the Bohemian rebels meanwhile could every day use their weapons, and instead of waiting to be attacked marched forward to attack. [10]
The appearance among them of old Madame Degardy shifted the good-natured attack. [11]
The Persian soldiers, their position being unfortified, were in order of battle, ready to meet any unexpected attack. [10]
On the morrow the whole of the Ambassadors' fellowship rode away, back to the emperor's court; I, for my part made my way to the Pernharts, where I found Ann amazed rather than wroth or distressed by Ursula's base attack. [10]

Short sentences using attack

You attack us without cause. [11]
They won't attack us now. [11]
Let us attack them! [2]
He returned to the attack. [11]
An attack of nerves, perhaps. [9]
Pierre was for direct attack. [11]
Dicky changed the attack. [11]

Sentences containing attack two or more times

My opinion is that he should move upon Lee at once in manner of general attack, leaving to developments whether he will make it a real attack. [7]
In such actions, instead of two crowds opposing each other, the men disperse, attack singly, run away when attacked by stronger forces, but again attack when opportunity offers. [2]
I do not believe Jackson will attack you, but certainly he cannot attack you by surprise; and if he comes upon you in superior force, you have but to notify us, fall back cautiously, and Banks will join you in due time. [7]

More example sentences with the word attack in them

Still, if in your own clear judgment you can renew the attack successfully, I do not mean to restrain you. [7]
In that fatal year I had my first attack of authors' lead-poisoning, and I have never got quite rid of it from that day to this. [6]
The day I wrote you--that night, I mean --she had a bitter attack of gout or rheumatism occupying the whole left arm from shoulder to fingers, accompanied by fever. [5]
Perhaps the preacher would have a sermon against war, and the preacher should see how soldierlike he would take this attack on him. [4]
The veteran Memnon, with his one arm, had kept watch on the temple-roof during that night's orgy, planning measures for repulsing the enemy's attack, till the storm had burst on him and his adherents with the "artillery of heaven. [10]
His attack on Willis very probably did him good; he needed a little discipline, and though he got it too unsparingly, some cautions came with it which were worth the stripes he had to smart under. [6]
Of his many wild doings I recall well the time when--fired by my tales of hunting--he went out to attack the young bull in the paddock with a bow and arrow. [9]
The person from whom it came was the barber's widow, whose attack had alarmed Eva so terribly the day before in front of the pillory. [10]
This attack was wholly unexpected, and therefore no means of defense had been provided. [7]
The excellent physician who took charge of my case said positively that my lungs were sound, and the attack was due to the bursting of a blood-vessel. [10]
The young people who come into Paris from the provinces are very apt--so I have been told by one that knows--to have an attack of typhoid fever a few weeks or months after their arrival. [6]
The fierceness with which the Moors had rushed to the attack was suddenly cooled; they were bold and adroit for a skirmish, but unequal to the veteran Spaniards in the open field. [4]
The manner in which he had attempted to rid himself of the rival seemed criminal enough, yet the nocturnal attack had scarcely concerned him personally, and he would not condemn the man who was usually so calm and sensible without having heard him. [10]
In one tent, where a young mother was shaking with the chill of a severe attack of fever, Miriam asked the pallid Milcah to bring her medicine chest, and the desolate wife went on her errand with joyous alacrity. [10]
At a time when an Indian attack had been expected, the citizens hid their gunpowder where it would be safe and yet convenient to hand when wanted. [5]
Whether Dolgorukov and Weyrother, or Kutuzov, Langeron, and the others who did not approve of the plan of attack, were right--he did not know. [2]
These, no doubt, were to ride round the morass, and ford the river at a favorable spot so as to attack the vessel from the west, while the others tried to reach it from the east with the aid of the palm-trunks. [10]
The Imperial troops were in fact masters of the secret passage; and they had begun the attack on the Serapeum in earnest. [10]
Those around me were gradually finding out the circumstances which brought on the deadly attack to which I was subject. [6]
I say if we escape, because, as we sail out, orders will be given for the other mutiny ships to attack us. [11]
Their whole strength was to be reserved, as the examination proved, for the attack upon the royal palaces. [10]
Mr. Bascom's attack was met valiantly, but unskillfully, from the back seats. [9]
Iberville, seeing that Walley would not attack, joined Sainte-Helene and Maricourt at the battery, and one of Iberville's shots brought down the admiral's flagstaff, with its cross of St. George. [11]
Langeron, trying as virulently as possible to sting Weyrother's vanity as author of the military plan, argued that Bonaparte might easily attack instead of being attacked, and so render the whole of this plan perfectly worthless. [2]
Then he ordered us to march round the ditch and attack the enemy on the flank. [10]
It was the unexpected realization of the fact that he still valued life as presented to him in the form of his love for Natasha, and a last, though ultimately vanquished, attack of terror before the unknown. [2]
Probably the horse understood this method, for he did not notice the attack at all. [4]
Though his hand trembled constantly from an attack of palsy, I don't know now how many times he pierced the centre of the ace of hearts. [10]
At night she tossed about and wandered, and it became at length apparent that there was a settled attack, something like what they called, formerly, a "nervous fever. [6]
Yet very subtly too did she attack him. [11]
In answer to Toll, Paulucci suggested an advance and an attack, which, he urged, could alone extricate us from the present uncertainty and from the trap (as he called the Drissa camp) in which we were situated. [2]
I have had to withstand the attack of a madman, and hear a horrible curse from his lips. [10]
Your first step to secure this object was the attack on Didymus. [10]
It is enough to say, that I found just what I expected to, and that I think this attack is only the prelude of more serious consequences,--which expression means you very well know what. [6]
You don't mean to say that George Eliot, and Mrs. Gaskell, and George Sand, and Mrs. Browning, before her marriage and severe attack of spiritism, are less true to art than contemporary men novelists and poets. [4]
Phips himself was to remain on the Bridgwater Merchant, the Swallow lying near with a goodly number of men to meet any possible attack from the sea. [11]
If the opportunity to make an attack arrived, a powerful fleet would be at her disposal, for which smaller ships also should now be built at Klysma, on the basis of the experience gained at Actium. [10]
In order, therefore, to increase the strength of the attack upon Richmond at the earliest moment, General McDowell has been ordered to march upon that city by the shortest route. [7]
Fulkerson appeared not to be very strenuous about the attack on the novelist. [8]
The soldiers wanted to attack, but had to suffer disappointment. [5]
It's too risky to attack them by oneself, and if we put it off till another day one of the big guerrilla detachments will snatch the prey from under our noses," thought Denisov, continually peering forward, hoping to see a messenger from Dolokhov. [2]
Kutuzov's wish was to attack next day, and the whole army desired to do so. [2]
We were going to attack it early this morning, but when day dawned everything was unnaturally quiet in the den, and moreover, a strange stillness prevailed. [10]
They are asking to attack and making plans of all kinds, but as soon as one gets to business nothing is ready, and the enemy, forewarned, takes measures accordingly. [2]
Is it customary to attack a visitor? [10]
At the same time, methought that for certain some new and terrible sorrow hung over us nay, never so clearly as then, after Abenberger's violent attack, had I perceived how much alone and without protection I stood in the world. [10]
I think the time is near when you must either attack Richmond or give up the job and come to the defense of Washington. [7]
Having arranged matters thus, Denisov and Dolokhov intended, without reporting matters to the higher command, to attack and seize that convoy with their own small forces. [2]
Only conduct me through the corridor that the dog may not attack me again, then go where you will--but not with me. [10]
At least four thousand besiegers lay before the walls, and, far beyond, they could see the attack upon the Residency. [11]
But their leader thought it well to postpone the attack till after sunrise, lest any of the fugitives should escape. [10]
Still somewhat exhausted, though his head was clear, he would not be hindered from receiving the deputation for which he had important matters to decide; but this fresh attack of rage revenged itself by a painful headache. [10]
He was at this time a victim to a fresh attack, and had therefore sent his confidential steward into the town to tell Heron that he approved of his son's choice, and that he would protect Alexander from pursuit. [10]
Titianus during all this festive season was unluckily suffering from an attack of old-standing breathlessness, and he also had his hands full; at the same time he did his best in helping Pontius in seeking out the sculptor Pollux. [10]
The landlord found this document and, being able to read, confirmed the statement of the sick youth; he was, however, soon seized by a fresh attack of fever, and began to speak incoherently. [10]
In consequence of this "a walk in the fresh air" always suggested to his mind, damp clothes, wet feet, ruined shoes, a cold in the head, and an attack of indigestion--the result of his sister's greasy cooking. [10]
He planned strange things with grandfather, and after Pentaur and you had saved us in the frightful attack upon us he interceded for us. [10]
Over their coffee they both talked from long distances towards the point of attack and struggle, Ismail carelessly throwing in glowing descriptions of the palaces he was building. [11]
I am not, therefore, afraid to attack a new study. [6]
One may attack them on the false side and perhaps gain a conversational victory. [6]
As most of them had never seen the play, they were not surprised when Holden did not again join the attack on the deputy sheriff. [11]
Our oars licked the water; they didn't attack it. [11]
Dolgorukov, one of the warmest advocates of an attack, had just returned from the council, tired and exhausted but eager and proud of the victory that had been gained. [2]
Raevski reported that the troops were firmly holding their ground and that the French no longer ventured to attack. [2]
But at length the senator succumbed to the drowsiness which never failed to attack him at this hour, and he forgot the disrepute of his surroundings in a respectable sleep. [9]
Philotas of Amphissa, the pupil of Didymus, had been the first to inform them of the attack and, with fiery zeal, had used his utmost power to atone for the wrong done to his master's granddaughter. [10]
He instantly recognised the nobleman; but the latter had resolved to keep the poor musician's attack a secret. [10]
The Sunday after the Model's arrival, that lady had an attack of headache, and was obliged to shut herself up in a darkened room alone. [6]
The tusks in the lower jaw are sharper than those in the upper, but from their shortness it seems hardly possible that they can be used as weapons of attack. [1]
In compensation for the loss of the lower tusks as weapons of offence, those in the upper jaw, which always project a little laterally, increase in old age so much in length and curve so much upwards that they can be used for attack. [1]
She gave him the letter, her heart standing still, but she was filled with a regnant determination to defend herself, to defend David against any attack, or from any consequences. [11]
This was on the first evening of his attack. [11]
He had made the first attack, on the ground that the aggressor gains by boldness, if that boldness is joined to skill; and Dyck's skill was of the best. [11]
I now think the enemy will not attack Chattanooga, and I think you will have to look out for his making a concentrated drive at Burnside. [7]
And this was the end of the revolting scene, for, as he spoke, Caesar pushed away his cup and sat staring into vacancy, so pale that his physician, foreseeing a fresh attack, brought out his medicine vial. [10]
Brehm, when accompanying the Duke of Coburg-Gotha, aided in an attack with fire-arms on a troop of baboons in the pass of Mensa in Abyssinia. [1]
Old Sophy met the Doctor at the door and told him all the circumstances connected with the extraordinary attack from which Elsie had suffered. [6]
The grey-haired countess, the cousin went on, had passed from one attack of convulsions into another, and when he approached her had shrieked the words "ingratitude" and "base reward" so shrilly at him, in various tones, that they were still ringing in his ears. [10]
Dolokhov remarked that the Cossacks were a danger only to stragglers such as his companion and himself, "but probably they would not dare to attack large detachments? [2]
It is, on the contrary, a most zealous defence of Perkinism, and a fierce attack upon its opponents, most especially upon such of the medical profession as treated the subject with neglect or ridicule. [6]
The wife of the baker, Wilhelm Peterssohn, who stood beside him, a woman he knew well, said to her companion that the doctor's remedies were good, they had quickly cured her godmother of a bad attack of erysipelas. [10]
From that moment the attack began, and assumed a severe character. [3]
He returned to the attack again and again, and yet at the crucial moment his courage would fail him and he would let the widow thrust him back. [9]
I don't mean that we ought to attack it where it exists. [7]
And on learning that tomorrow they were to attack the enemy, and hearing from the highest quarters a confirmation of what they wanted to believe, the exhausted, wavering men felt comforted and inspirited. [2]
But I wondered that they had dared attack a person of my consequence. [9]
You have heard that their father would even attack them, yet he doubtless loved them and would never resolve to place them in a convent. [10]
Did they suppose that the Boers would attack them for petitioning, for redress? [5]
Did they suppose that the Boers would attack them even for issuing a Manifesto demanding relief under the existing government? [5]
But he commanded that the boats should come on slowly and receive the attack in the river, while he came in from the desert. [11]
From the day that that dreary news came we had one scare after another, the marauders coming almost to our doors every now and then; so that we lived in ever-increasing apprehension, and yet were somehow mercifully spared from actual attack. [5]
Next he thought that his enemy would send the squadron on a desperate attack just to punish him--Rostov. [2]
It is clear that he must belong to the household since the dog did not attack him. [10]
Care had been taken to provide for his personal safety, for the attack might perhaps yet prove to have been connected with the jealousy of the Biamite husbands. [10]
We are not surprised to read that on Monday, the 30th, the constable awoke with a slight attack of lumbago. [4]
He had a sudden attack of illness, which was thought to look very much like the effect of poison. [6]
She was in such a state that almost any slight agitation would have brought on the attack, and it was the accident of her transient excitability, very probably, which made a trifling cause the seeming occasion of so much disturbance. [6]
Perhaps Myrtilus had succumbed to the terrible attack which must have visited him in such a storm, and life without his friend would be bereft of half its charm. [10]
The attack was successful, but at what a price! [10]
In a side street the praetor met the tailor he had knocked down, the sausage-maker, and other ringleaders of the attack on the Israelite's house. [10]

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