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

Only about 700 Legionnaires managed to escape the ambuscade.

From Time Magazine Archive

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 capped a notably disgruntling week for Labor.

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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

Kabba Rega had no doubt ordered the various routes towards Rionga's province to be ambuscaded.

From Ismailia by Sir Samuel White Baker

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

If it hadn't been for War Eagle Ivus and his buck sheep breakin' out, they'd have ambuscaded ye, surer'n palm-leaf fans can't cool the kitchen o' hell.

From The Ramrodders A Novel by Holman Day

Besides, there was Papa Gato ambuscaded somewhere upon the flanks of the great volcano surmounting the pueblo.

From Caybigan by James Hopper

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

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

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

The gardens and grounds of Haverly Lodge were that night such a terrain as best suits the ambuscading warfare of the small god with the bow and darts.

From Destiny by Charles Neville Buck

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

Colonel Butler hearing the firing on his right and rear imagined he was discovered, and that instead of ambuscading the rebels, he was himself to be surprised by this unexpected attack in the rear.

From The Journal of Lieut. John L. Hardenbergh of the Second New York Continental Regiment from May 1 to October 3, 1779, in General Sullivan's Campaign Against the Western Indians With an Introduction, Copious Historical Notes, and Maps of the Battle-field of Newtown and Groveland Ambuscade by John Leonard Hardenbergh

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