The phrase "assail me" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when someone is expressing that they are being attacked or criticized, either verbally or in writing.
Example: "I felt overwhelmed as my colleagues began to assail me with questions during the meeting."
Alternatives: "attack me" or "criticize me".
I am ashamed to flout the dead, for fear some spite assail me.
As I'm in no position to give you complete satisfaction, according to the exact terms of your program, I'm sending you two pieces of poetry that more or less sum up the reveries that assail me in the twilight hours.
I concluded July with a column ("Is The New York Times a Liberal Newspaper?") that caused several readers to assail me for making a case against gay marriage, and even more to accuse me of giving aid and comfort to supporters of the Federal Marriage Amendment by criticizing The Times's coverage of the issue.
Images assail me: a slender woman clutching her stomach outside Tehran University after the blow; a tall woman gesticulating to the men behind her to advance on the shiny-shirted Basij militia; women shedding tears of distilled indignation; and that young woman who screamed, "We are all so angry.
But what I now appreciate all too clearly, for similar but hopefully temporary reasons, is the pounding frustration of not being able to try something out on the piano, of not being able to go near a concert because of the terrible cacophony that would assail me – because I, too, have developed a hearing problem.
"My heart is in anguish within me: the terrors of death assail me.
That's how badly the doubts were assailing me.
At the conclusion of his three exchanges with the St James's Gazette he observed: "as you assailed me first, I have the right to the last word.
At this point, I did not realise that the male child cannot win either, but still guilt and self-pity assailed me like crosswinds.
When I wrote about a close call with a suicide bombing, Palestinian colleagues assailed me for playing to the Israeli side; when I wrote about the agony of life under occupation, I was criticized by Israelis.
Images of roads and ditches and bog and bog lake assailed me, as did the voice of my mother, tender or chastising, and even her cough when she lay down at night.
