assailant

• I do not even know whether my assailant was a man or a woman Surely no woman would behave in such a manner If you knew the way some women behave nowadays, you would not ask such a stupid question. —  Mingled With Venom-Gladys Mitchell-Bradley 54
• Cardiff may have kept their chances of gaining promotion to the Premier League alive with a point that keeps them in sixth place, five points clear of Swansea in eighth, but the ramifications of Dean's injury could prove costly, even though the club have announced that his assailant was arrested and has since been banned from the club for life. —  Sport news, comment and results | guardian.co.uk
• She said the assailant was a black man in his 30s driving an orange Ford Pinto. —  Long Beach Press Telegram Most Viewed
• And the Shomo girl picking out a Virginia state trooper as her assailant is the best proof of this a person could ever ask for. —  Readthehook.com - Current Articles
• Less than 24 hours later, the aforementioned cop killings took place in Oakland, but they couldn't act as an anti-conservative rallying point because the assailant was an African American that ended up being hailed as a hero by the Marxists in his community. —  NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias

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