ambushment

Example Sentences

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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 Knibbs, Henry Herbert

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

O brother," whispered Giles, "ne'er saw I place sweeter or more apt for ambushment.

From Beltane the Smith by Farnol, Jeffery

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

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 Knibbs, Henry Herbert