“I’ll put ⟳ myself in poor and mean ⟳ attire, And with a kind of umber smirch my face ⟳; The like ⟳ do you; so shall we pass ⟳ along, And never stir ⟳ assailants.”

“[…] commonly some of us used to get ⟳ up a tree to look ⟳ out for any assailant, or kidnapper, that might come ⟳ upon us; for they sometimes took those opportunities of our parents absence to attack and carry ⟳ off as many as they could seize.”

“[…] just as he leaned over to get ⟳ the stick ⟳, I seized him with both hands by the collar, and, with a vigorous and sudden snatch, I brought my assailant harmlessly, his full length, on the not over clean ⟳ ground—for we were now in the cow yard.”

“In the middle of a crowded street a young man would be attacked, stripped, thrashed, and left bleeding on the pavement; in fifteen seconds it was all over and the assailants had disappeared.”

“In the village of Aqraba, the Sheikh Saadeh Mosque was set ⟳ on fire before the assailants graffitied the words “price tag” and “revenge” on its walls.”

“1782, Frances Burney, Cecilia, London: T. Payne and Son and T. Cadell, Volume 5, Book 9, Chapter 3, p. 41, […] the assailants of the quill have ⟳ their honour as much at heart as the assailants of the sword.”

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