A breath of almost spring-like weather assailed him.
It has been assailed on the most opposite grounds.
Here began a series of heavy spiritual trials which assailed him for many months.
Familiar dizziness assailed her.
Not only was Syria thus weakened by being detached from the body of the Seljukian empire; it was divided by dissensions within, and assailed by the Fatimite caliph of Egypt from without.