ambushment

Example Sentences

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Walkyn, Ulf! here hath been an ambushment, methinks—'tis a likely place for such.

From Beltane the Smith by Farnol, Jeffery

"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 Scott, Walter, Sir

I hold it a sin to kill the second buck afore the first is eaten, unless a march in the front, or an ambushment, be contemplated.

From The Last of the Mohicans A Narrative of 1757 by Cooper, James Fenimore

It was three or four days after, at the least, that I had intended returning; and by that time, no doubt, our friends would have had their ambushment complete.

From Oddsfish! by Benson, Robert Hugh

And Gaal the son of Ebed went out, and stood in the entering of the gate of the city: and Abimelech rose up, and the people that were with him, from the ambushment.

From Select Masterpieces of Biblical Literature by Moulton, Richard Green