Johnson's laughter seen partly as an attack

Usage examples of onslaught.

French for that, and Amy could already feel her native tongue beginning to slip away under the onslaught of constant English conversation.

We fired a volley point blank into them and, as it was hopeless for fifty men to withstand such an onslaught, bolted during the temporary confusion that ensued, taking refuge, as it had been arranged that we should do, at a point of vantage farther down the line of fortifications, whence we maintained our galling fire.

Pierre Buttel, whose influence was great, put a stop to this onslaught.

The Chulo retreated from the onslaught of the white man a long time ago.

Though she had alsof expected messengers to precede her, she was not pre-j pared for the onslaught of guards, cubiculars, logothetes, and the rest of the army of palace functionaries who waited outside, and swept her into their complex wake.

Shani Deva, grant me a chance to fight the craven perpetrators of this onslaught.

A malignant intelligence directed their onslaught, so that even the disjoined fragments conspired against the embattled humans.

Ere I begin, summon them all to this part of the walls: a look-out is enow to shield you of the other parts from any sudden onslaught, which besides I swear to you is clean without my purpose.

The wily Gorr, seeing his warriors melt before the terrible onslaught, retreated to his massive walled fortress, Golgor.

It need hardly be said that while French wine and silk prospered under this arrangement, other textiles and ironwares suffered an onslaught of cheap competition from the much more advanced British manufactures.

Sometimes in the noonday, when Robyn was lying pale and silent, resting between the periodic onslaughts of the fever, Mungo could sleep for a few hours on the pallet set at the far end of the veranda, until Juba or one of the twins called him.

The weather on the Escarpment was often violent, with katabatic winds rushing downslope and colliding with the Syrtis trade winds to create tall fast red tornadoes, or onslaughts of gritty hail.

I have to say, whether it was on account of their poor condition, or because the tsetse in those parts is more poisonous than usual, I do not know, but ours succumbed to its onslaught.

The guards had not reached me when he fell upon them from the rear, and as they turned, thinking from the fierceness of his onslaught that a dozen were attacking them, I rushed them from my side.

The scratcher, blinking and gaping, did not seem to know what to do in the face of such an insane onslaught.