ambushment
Example Sentences
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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
"I wish to Our Lady you may, my lord," answered Ludovic; "but it wounds me to the very midriff, to think my sister's son should fear an ambushment."
From Quentin Durward by Sir Walter Scott
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 Sir Thomas Malory
It’s sure they take us for Hamelin Town, and are eager to lay their ambushment.
From Journeys to Bagdad by Charles S. (Charles Stephen) Brooks
Then he knew; saw it all as clearly as though he had witnessed it—the ambushment in the blinding sandstorm; the terror-stricken Waco; the frightened ponies; the lunging and swaying buckboard.
From Jim Waring of Sonora-Town Tang of Life by Henry Herbert Knibbs
