ambuscade

The ambuscade capped a notably disgruntling week for Labor.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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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 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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But the crafty Mouse, lurking under the grass in ambuscade, made sudden sallies, and often surprised the enemy at a disadvantage.

From ?sop's Fables, Embellished with One Hundred and Eleven Emblematical Devices. by ?sop

Then she knew the feeling of the man who finds himself ambuscaded.

From The Beach of Dreams by H. De Vere (Henry De Vere) Stacpoole

The garrison was beleaguered, foraging-parties assaulted, sorties ambuscaded, and such was the alarm, says the good Bishop Las Casas in his history, that the people feared to be burned within their dwellings.

From Vasco Nu?ez de Balboa by Frederick Albion Ober

His fleet was ambuscaded and surrounded, and when his men had made their last stand he refused to surrender.

From Peeps at Many Lands: Norway by A. Heaton (Alfred Heaton) Cooper

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

Here, in 1776, a troop of Sheldon's Horse ambuscaded a body of Hessians, only one of whom escaped.

From The New York and Albany Post Road From Kings Bridge to "The Ferry at Crawlier, over against Albany," Being an Account of a Jaunt on Foot Made at Sundry Convenient Times between May and November, Nineteen Hundred and Five by C. G. (Charles Gilbert) Hine

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

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

The thick growth of grass and vines made ambuscading a favorite pastime with the Spaniards.

From History of Negro Soldiers in the Spanish-American War, and Other Items of Interest by Edward A. (Edward Austin) Johnson

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

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