ambushment

Example Sentences

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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

On the 8th August they came to an ambushment all prepared, but it had been abandoned for some unknown reason.

From The Personal Life of David Livingstone by Blaikie, William Garden

The old hunter postponed his prayerful motion, most reluctantly, as it would seem, and led the way in a silent withdrawal from the dangerous neighborhood of the ambushment.

From The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady by Lynde, Francis

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

From Beltane the Smith by Farnol, Jeffery

It’s sure they take us for Hamelin Town, and are eager to lay their ambushment.

From Journeys to Bagdad by Brooks, Charles S. (Charles Stephen)