ambuscade
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He lost three of the next four games before he recovered from the shock of that one intellectual ambuscade.
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The general belief was that the King was a chance victim of the ambuscade which was intended for the Orchanie-Sofia autobus, occupants of which were known to be carrying large sums of money.
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The ambuscade capped a notably disgruntling week for Labor.
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Only about 700 Legionnaires managed to escape the ambuscade.
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Ojeda sallied forth to meet them, and the Indians fled to the ambuscade.
From The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 3 by Frederick Whymper
The next morning they started early to the south, and toiled until eleven o'clock, to find themselves once more ambuscaded by the precipitous hills.
From The Wedge of Gold by C. C. Goodwin
The enemy hastened away to Drainsville an overwhelming force, and ambuscaded the road, where it entered the woods, with artillery and men of all arms.
From A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital by John Beauchamp Jones
But since they rode straight for the hills, he feared that if he followed he himself would be ambuscaded.
From The Treasure of the Tigris A Tale of Mesopotamia by A. F. Mockler Ferryman
On the 5th of November the army, misled by treacherous guides and thirst-stricken, was ambuscaded in dense forest at Kashgil, 30 m. south of Obeid.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" by Various
She had been ambuscaded in the street to-day by demons not of faery, but of fact, that had leaped out at her from nowhere.
From The Cup of Fury A Novel of Cities and Shipyards by Henry Raleigh
Colonel Butler hearing the firing on his right and rear imagined he was discovered, and that instead of ambuscading the rebels, he was himself to be surprised by this unexpected attack in the rear.
From The Journal of Lieut. John L. Hardenbergh of the Second New York Continental Regiment from May 1 to October 3, 1779, in General Sullivan's Campaign Against the Western Indians With an Introduction, Copious Historical Notes, and Maps of the Battle-field of Newtown and Groveland Ambuscade by John Leonard Hardenbergh
And there they prospered for a blessed time Until Elimelech in his lordly prime, Hasting those cattle-spoilers to pursue, The ambuscading sons of Anak slew.
From A Celtic Psaltery by Alfred Perceval Graves
That boy must be a throw-back, thought the colonel, to the ambuscading, feud-fighting men on his mother’s side.
From The Bondboy by George W. (George Washington) Ogden
The thick growth of grass and vines made ambuscading a favorite pastime with the Spaniards.
From History of Negro Soldiers in the Spanish-American War, and Other Items of Interest by Edward A. (Edward Austin) Johnson
Re-enforcements came from Holland, and under Calabar's guidance the Dutch learned the value of ambuscading and made sudden expeditions which took the important settlements by surprise.
From The South American Republics Part I of II by Thomas C. Dawson