ambushment
Example Sentences
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So from that on we went as men whose lives are held in pawn by a hidden foe, looking at every turn for an ambushment.
From The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady by Francis Lynde
Walkyn, Ulf! here hath been an ambushment, methinks—'tis a likely place for such.
From Beltane the Smith by Jeffery Farnol
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 Howard Pyle
They would blunder down the pitch into the arroyo, perhaps glancing back, fearful of pursuit, but apprehending no ambushment.
From Jim Waring of Sonora-Town Tang of Life by Henry Herbert Knibbs
Constant lightning in a particular place indicated an ambushment of the enemy.
From Samoa, A Hundred Years Ago And Long Before by George Turner
