ambuscade

I have experienced and feel a profound sadness for the Marines who perished in the last ambuscade of the Sandinistas.

From Time Magazine Archive

He lost three of the next four games before he recovered from the shock of that one intellectual ambuscade.

From Time Magazine Archive

Only about 700 Legionnaires managed to escape the ambuscade.

From Time Magazine Archive

The ambuscade capped a notably disgruntling week for Labor.

From Time Magazine Archive

When they approached the ambuscade two Spaniards were sent out, carrying a white flag of truce.

From The Monarchs of the Main, Volume II (of 3) Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers by Walter Thornbury

"Look sharp, John, that there be not others ambuscaded along the bank."

From The Little Red Foot by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

She had been ambuscaded in the street to-day by demons not of faery, but of fact, that had leaped out at her from nowhere.

From The Cup of Fury A Novel of Cities and Shipyards by Henry Raleigh

It does not appear whether the Spanish or the natives of Yucatan were the aggressors, but the upshot of it was that the Spanish were ambuscaded and several of them were badly wounded.

From The History of Cuba, vol. 1 by Willis Fletcher Johnson

The next morning they started early to the south, and toiled until eleven o'clock, to find themselves once more ambuscaded by the precipitous hills.

From The Wedge of Gold by C. C. Goodwin

Here she regarded him with a commiseration that he thought delicious; it was so palpably genuine; she so grandly overlooked the solemn roguery that ambuscaded itself behind his humility.

From The Adventures of a Widow A Novel by Edgar Fawcett

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

Re-enforcements came from Holland, and under Calabar's guidance the Dutch learned the value of ambuscading and made sudden expeditions which took the important settlements by surprise.

From The South American Republics Part I of II by Thomas C. Dawson

The ambuscading forces now made their presence known, and, displaying their hats upon the muzzles of their guns, made a show of twice their actual strength.

From Vermont A Study of Independence by Rowland E. (Evans) Robinson

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

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