ambuscade

The ambuscade capped a notably disgruntling week for Labor.

From Time Magazine Archive

The general belief was that the King was a chance victim of the ambuscade which was intended for the Orchanie-Sofia autobus, occupants of which were known to be carrying large sums of money.

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Only about 700 Legionnaires managed to escape the ambuscade.

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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 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

He tripped them up with facts, ambuscaded them with facts, bombarded them with broadsides of facts.

From The Iron Heel by Jack London

Perceiving, from the intermittent fire, that it was a small party which had ambuscaded him, Marin, the Indian scout and leader, attempted a landing below the Americans, in order to cut off their retreat.

From "Old Put" The Patriot by Frederick Albion Ober

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

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

On the 5th of November the army, misled by treacherous guides and thirst-stricken, was ambuscaded in dense forest at Kashgil, 30 m. south of Obeid.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" by Various

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

We had frequently gone out in small ambuscading parties in hopes of picking off a few of the ladrons, but without any success.

From Los Gringos Or, An Inside View of Mexico and California, with Wanderings in Peru, Chili, and Polynesia by H. A. (Henry Augustus) Wise

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

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

And there they prospered for a blessed time Until Elimelech in his lordly prime, Hasting those cattle-spoilers to pursue, The ambuscading sons of Anak slew.

From A Celtic Psaltery by Alfred Perceval Graves