ambushment
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Not he, not he; he is as prudent as he is brave, in the main, though so forgetful of himself in the late ambushment.
From Pathfinder; or, the inland sea by James Fenimore Cooper
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
I hold it a sin to kill the second buck afore the first is eaten, unless a march in front, or an ambushment, be contemplated.
From The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper
Their overnight bivouac was not above a mile beyond the glade of 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
I hold it a sin to kill the second buck afore the first is eaten, unless a march in the front, or an ambushment, be contemplated.
From The Last of the Mohicans A Narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper
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