abortive attack

"I lost a great deal in the abortive attack on this place," he said casually.

About 200 Confederate were killed or wounded in the abortive attack.

That night the Fascists made a sort of abortive attack.

Some patients may fall into an abortive attack or develop chronic muscle weakness later in life.

She then served at the abortive attack on Cadiz.

After flying a few sorties, he made an abortive attack on an observation balloon.

After a few of those abortive attacks, Martel pulled back for a day or so to reconsider his strategy.

Sharpe led the way into the alleyway from which the abortive attack, four days before, had been launched.

Fighting continued in the streets of Nostor Town after the abortive attack on the castle.

He had no doubt that Nimue had somehow been at the bottom of this abortive attack.

Both fore and aft doors were still open as they were when the abortive attack on Smith had been made.

Except for one abortive attack from an intersecting passage, though, the Koorn rebels didn't try to stop them.

Weakened by marching during the winter, Henry's soldiers made only one abortive attack in February before retreating.

In response to the abortive attack, white residents of Washington rioted, burning a black school, amid other acts of destruction.

They also come on the heels of two abortive attacks on groups of tourists visiting Luxor.

The Company had gradually recovered from the effects of the abortive attack on the Temple of Light.

Chi knew well the power of the American B-52s-he had been in power during the abortive attack on the Philippines.

Missing people, abandoned communicators, and an abortive attack on the station: it was a suggestive, and unpleasant, combination.

Taggi's distaste was too manifest; Shann had been lucky that the animal had made one abortive attack.

Shortly afterward, the Yeti advance in an abortive attack on the monastery, during which one of them is overpowered and rendered dormant.

However, the New Zealand 2nd Division launched an abortive attack on Italian positions, suffering heavy losses.

That was why he did not find it difficult to accept a theory that Intel was behind this abortive attack, though the motive remained a mystery.

She also assisted a cruise ship, Seabourn Spirit, after an abortive attack by pirates off the coast of Somalia in 2005.

In July, New York participated in an abortive attack on Montreal and Quebec.

Three times in a minute, Jillian flinched into abortive attacks, barely countering Osa's aggressive defense in time.