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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I have experienced and feel a profound sadness for the Marines who perished in the last ambuscade of the Sandinistas.
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Only about 700 Legionnaires managed to escape the ambuscade.
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The ambuscade capped a notably disgruntling week for Labor.
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The brown furrows in the fields were now acres of waving yellow; each black clump was now an ambuscade of green, noisy with birds.
From The Truants by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason
Within a month Chinese troops ambuscaded a French column at Bac-Le and the Government decided on a punitive expedition.
From A History of the Third French Republic by C. H. C. (Charles Henry Conrad) Wright
His fleet was ambuscaded and surrounded, and when his men had made their last stand he refused to surrender.
From Peeps at Many Lands: Norway by A. Heaton (Alfred Heaton) Cooper
We are all safe enough now, for they never follow the windings of the watercourse, knowing that at any turn they might be ambuscaded.
From The Treasure of the Tigris A Tale of Mesopotamia by A. F. Mockler Ferryman
Then she knew the feeling of the man who finds himself ambuscaded.
From The Beach of Dreams by H. De Vere (Henry De Vere) Stacpoole
For the rest of the winter Skeffington did nothing but send out a futile expedition, a detachment of which was ambuscaded: while the loyalists fumed.
From England under the Tudors by Arthur D. (Arthur Donald) Innes
I again succeeded in ambuscading them, which caused them to give up the pursuit for the night.
From The Battle of Atlanta and Other Campaigns, Addresses, Etc. by Grenville Mellen Dodge
The gardens and grounds of Haverly Lodge were that night such a terrain as best suits the ambuscading warfare of the small god with the bow and darts.
From Destiny by Charles Neville Buck
The ambuscading forces now made their presence known, and, displaying their hats upon the muzzles of their guns, made a show of twice their actual strength.
From Vermont A Study of Independence by Rowland E. (Evans) Robinson
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
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
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