ambushment

Example Sentences

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So from that on we went as men whose lives are held in pawn by a hidden foe, looking at every turn for an 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

I hold it a sin to kill the second buck afore the first is eaten, unless a march in the front, or an ambushment, be contemplated.

From The Last of the Mohicans A Narrative of 1757 by Cooper, James Fenimore

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

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

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 Hall, Newton Marshall