ambushment
Example Sentences
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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 William Garden Blaikie
Constant lightning in a particular place indicated an ambushment of the enemy.
From Samoa, A Hundred Years Ago And Long Before by George Turner
And Joshua sent them forth: and they went to the ambushment, and took their place between Beth-el and Ai, on the west side of Ai: but Joshua camped that night among the people.
From The Bible Story by Newton Marshall Hall
Walkyn, Ulf! here hath been an ambushment, methinks—'tis a likely place for such.
From Beltane the Smith by Jeffery Farnol
I hold it a sin to kill the second buck afore the first is eaten, unless a march in front, or an ambushment, be contemplated.
From The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper
