At the first onset Sintoba had drawn the assegai which he carried concealed about his person, and had leaped to the assistance of his master.
"The Luck of Gerard Ridgeley"
Bertram Mitford
The Median poems which dealt with this most attractive material must have commenced with the rise of the Assyrian kingdom; they had the more reason for explaining and suggesting motives for this mighty movement, as it was incumbent on them to make intelligible the wreck of the resistance of their own nation to the onset of the Assyrians, and the previous subjection of Media.
"The History of Antiquity, Vol. II (of VI)"
Max Duncker
Even in Saul's reign it had been difficult when an enemy invaded the open cantons of Israel to find time for assembling the fighting powers, the levy of the people; there had been no fortified point on which the first shock of the enemy's onset broke, no city strongly fortified and of considerable size in which large numbers could find protection.
"The History of Antiquity, Vol. II (of VI)"
Max Duncker