ambushment

Example Sentences

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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

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

From Beltane the Smith by Farnol, Jeffery

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

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

O brother," whispered Giles, "ne'er saw I place sweeter or more apt for ambushment.

From Beltane the Smith by Farnol, Jeffery