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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Older spelling of assault.

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Examples

  • Specter voted against the assaut weapons ban in the 1990s and opposed extending the ban in 2004.

    Specter hits Sestak for favoring ... gun control 2010

  • The final half-hour - a fiery naval battle followed by a massive ground assaut - is thrilling filmmaking, shifting easily from a macro viewpoint to micro and back again, ending as you would hope, with a face-to-face encounter between the film's principal adversaries.

    Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: Red Cliff - Return of the real John Woo 2009

  • Today, Britain has gross and ludicrous laws created by Euro-bureaucrats, one assumes, but with the full force of legality in our country which ensure that anyone who challenges, reproves or in any way moves to restrain a vicious child can be arrested and imprisoned, facing serious charges of assaut.

    Today... Joanna Bogle 2008

  • Today, Britain has gross and ludicrous laws created by Euro-bureaucrats, one assumes, but with the full force of legality in our country which ensure that anyone who challenges, reproves or in any way moves to restrain a vicious child can be arrested and imprisoned, facing serious charges of assaut.

    Archive 2008-08-01 Joanna Bogle 2008

  • For neuer through any assaut of fortune (the sharpenesse wherof I haue often felt) haue I bene vanquished with so great disquiet, as nowe.

    The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter

  • "_A vous, monsieur_!" roared out a French quarter-master on board of the lugger, in imitation of the compliments which take place previously to an _assaut d'armes_, at the same time taking off his hat, and bowing to the cutter.

    The King's Own Frederick Marryat 1820

  • Say, whay type of assaut rifle would the Baby Jesus prefer?

    Propeller Most Popular Stories 2010

  • Say, whay type of assaut rifle would the Baby Jesus prefer?

    Propeller Most Popular Stories 2010

  • Gaza, et pris le contrôle du navire sans violences, a annoncé l'armée, cinq jours après un assaut sanglant sur

    WN.com - Articles related to Pourquoi Obama et Sarkozy doivent s'investir au Proche-Orient 2010

  • The report contains information on the investigation into the alleged sexual assaut of a 7-year-old boy in a bathroom connected to the U.S. Customs and Border

    Brownsville Herald : 2010

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