Starts or assaults

Usage examples of onsets.

The furious onsets of those great squadrons with cuirasses of iron and breasts of steel had ground the infantry to nothing.

Once we're locked into the grid at a fixed point, I can update the inertial system so that it will supply the drift onsets automatically.

To complete their discomfiture the elephants, scared by the sudden onsets of the cavalry and the rapid movements of the light infantry, rushed from the wings into the centre of the line.

The Macedonians, too, had the advantage of the king's presence to encourage them, whilst the Cretan auxiliaries, in close order and prepared for fighting, made sudden onsets and wounded many of their opponents, who were dispersed without any order or formation.

She was subject to occasional abrupt onsets of migraine and even now a thing like a starburst pulsed in one corner of her field of vision and her temples had begun to throb.

It began to fake the symptoms of too many diseases, the onsets and recoveries were too fast, it jumped around too much.

For the first time in their history they will be able to reach a level of civilization high enough to enable them to retain it through any future onsets of frigid weather.

And then, of course, the periods between successive onsets of exhaustion would become progressively shorter.

Once we’re locked into the grid at a fixed point, I can update the inertial system so that it will supply the drift onsets automatically.