This was the truth, but the little girl was so terror-stricken by the previous assaults that, having seized Stas' hand, she did not want to let go of it for a moment, repeating continually, as if in a fever: I am afraid!
"In Desert and Wilderness"
Henryk Sienkiewicz
A strong feeling was expressed that the party had damaged itself in the past by its assaults on the Church, and that its present policy ought, in self-preservation, to be one of religious neutrality and toleration.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae
He would supply all alike, therefore, with certain material securities-the material conditions necessary to secure their moral rights with equal completeness,-and he would protect them in the enjoyment of those conditions against the assaults of poverty and misfortune no less than the assaults of murderers and thieves.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae