ambushment

Example Sentences

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It’s sure they take us for Hamelin Town, and are eager to lay their ambushment.

From Journeys to Bagdad by Brooks, Charles S. (Charles Stephen)

Now is the time to come out of our ambushment," exclaimed the old man, hastening to join his friends, "and to make open and manful war.

From The Prairie by Cooper, James Fenimore

For the first moment, so genuine appeared his passion, I had believed him; and that the ambushment was there, as he had said.

From Oddsfish! by Benson, Robert Hugh

Also Sir Kay came out of an ambushment with five knights with him, and they six smote other six down.

From Le Mort d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

Thereafter let it be that our knights withdraw as though in retreat, and so lead this knight and the knights of the castle into an ambushment.

From The Story of the Champions of the Round Table by Pyle, Howard