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onfall
noun as in onset
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The Indians are to have powder and lead of us, after which they make a sudden onfall on the over-mountain settlements.
The cover came to the wayside, and as I passed I was all strung up to meet and to resist an onfall.
Was it not at the onfall at Nurnberg, when I led the right and you the left wing of the heavy horse?'
You shall hear how the onfall goes, belike,” they said, “and to-morrow shall be your judgment.
Such a purpose as the trapping of the King by a secret and sudden onfall was the mere commonplace of Scottish politics.
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On this page you'll find 47 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to onfall, such as: commencement, dawning, onslaught, outbreak, outset, and access.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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