ambushment

Example Sentences

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Walkyn, Ulf! here hath been an ambushment, methinks—'tis a likely place for such.

From Beltane the Smith by Farnol, Jeffery

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

Their overnight bivouac was not above a mile beyond the glade of ambushment.

From The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady by Lynde, Francis

It’s sure they take us for Hamelin Town, and are eager to lay their ambushment.

From Journeys to Bagdad by Brooks, Charles S. (Charles Stephen)

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