ambuscade

There is a patience of the wild—dogged, tireless, persistent as life itself—that holds motionless for endless hours the spider in its web, the snake in its coils, the panther in its ambuscade; this patience belongs peculiarly to life when it hunts its living food; and it belonged to Buck as he clung to the flank of the herd, retarding its march, irritating the young bulls, worrying the cows with their half-grown calves, and driving the wounded bull mad with helpless rage.

She gives us several clues: The flower has an “ambuscade” of “briar and leaf”—in other words a tangle of thorny branches—and a lustrous cheek “belted” by green sepals.

The boat was then sent on board of her, and she proved to be the Ambuscade man of war, to my no small disappointment.

The rising of birds in their flight is the sign of an ambuscade.

Had this plot failed, d’Alfaro had arranged another for an ambuscade on the road to Castelnaudary, and the fact that so extensive a conspiracy could be organized on the spot, without finding a traitor to betray it, shows how general was the hate that had been earned by the cruel work of the Inquisition.