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ambuscade

[am-buh-skeyd, am-buh-skeyd] / ˈæm bəˌskeɪd, ˌæm bəˈskeɪd /


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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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The ambuscade capped a notably disgruntling week for Labor.

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Only about 700 Legionnaires managed to escape the 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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The ambuscade shall be laid in the very same place where the infamous one concealed you in order to expose me to your gaze.

From One of Cleopatra's Nights and Other Fantastic Romances One of Cleopatra's Nights?Clarimonde?Arria Marcella?The Mummy's Foot?Omphale: a Rococo Story?King Candaules by Th?ophile Gautier

The enemy hastened away to Drainsville an overwhelming force, and ambuscaded the road, where it entered the woods, with artillery and men of all arms.

From A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital by John Beauchamp Jones

The garrison was beleaguered, foraging-parties assaulted, sorties ambuscaded, and such was the alarm, says the good Bishop Las Casas in his history, that the people feared to be burned within their dwellings.

From Vasco Nu?ez de Balboa by Frederick Albion Ober

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’ll not see the army ambuscaded without a warning.

From Graham of Claverhouse by Ian Maclaren

But since they rode straight for the hills, he feared that if he followed he himself would be ambuscaded.

From The Treasure of the Tigris A Tale of Mesopotamia by A. F. Mockler Ferryman

Colonel Butler hearing the firing on his right and rear imagined he was discovered, and that instead of ambuscading the rebels, he was himself to be surprised by this unexpected attack in the rear.

From The Journal of Lieut. John L. Hardenbergh of the Second New York Continental Regiment from May 1 to October 3, 1779, in General Sullivan's Campaign Against the Western Indians With an Introduction, Copious Historical Notes, and Maps of the Battle-field of Newtown and Groveland Ambuscade by John Leonard Hardenbergh

Before the assemblage could realize this new invasion, a nearer clatter of hoofs was heard along the high road, and one of the ambuscading party dashed up from the fringe of woods below.

From The Bell-Ringer of Angel's by Bret Harte

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

That boy must be a throw-back, thought the colonel, to the ambuscading, feud-fighting men on his mother’s side.

From The Bondboy by George W. (George Washington) Ogden

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




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