The intense objective impressions of cold and hunger Assailing the body rob even the mind of inspiration and exhilaration.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook
I had always reasoned that a quiet, dignified, non-Assailing bearing would be most effective in a battle of this kind.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook
But now, when she had been giving up completely, and at times gazing out to sea with horrible thoughts Assailing her, and suggestions like temptations to seek for oblivion as the only escape from the agony she suffered, the life-raft had reached her hands, and she clung to it with all the tenacity of one mentally drowning fast.
"The Master of the Ceremonies"
George Manville Fenn