ambushment

Example Sentences

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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 Cooper, James Fenimore

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)

Constant lightning in a particular place indicated an ambushment of the enemy.

From Samoa, A Hundred Years Ago And Long Before by Turner, George

"I wish to Our Lady you may, my lord," answered Ludovic; "but it wounds me to the very midriff, to think my sister's son should fear an ambushment."

From Quentin Durward by Scott, Walter, 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