ambushment
Example Sentences
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Also Sir Kay came out of an ambushment with five knights with him, and they six smote other six down.
From Le Mort d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir
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
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
Then he knew; saw it all as clearly as though he had witnessed it—the ambushment in the blinding sandstorm; the terror-stricken Waco; the frightened ponies; the lunging and swaying buckboard.
From Jim Waring of Sonora-Town Tang of Life by Knibbs, Henry Herbert
For the first moment, so genuine appeared his passion, I had believed him; and that the ambushment was there, as he had said.
From Oddsfish! by Benson, Robert Hugh
