How To Use Ambuscade In A Sentence
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During an expedition to the frontier for the object of punishing a marauding party, his company was ambuscaded and made a desperate resistance, but were overpowered and put to flight.
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He tripped them up with facts, ambuscaded them with facts, bombarded them with broadsides of facts.
Chapter 1: My Eagle
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He had another encounter with the wild-dog, who treacherously attacked him in flank from ambuscade.
CHAPTER III
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It was evident that the enemy were ambuscaded in great force.
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The next morning they started early to the south, and toiled until eleven o'clock, to find themselves once more ambuscaded by the precipitous hills.
The Wedge of Gold
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If nothing else, the ambuscade - traditionally dated August 15, 778 - did take place.
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Spencer Green: A True American Idol
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Brown was opposed to the pursuit, and told Patrick he feared they would be ambuscaded.
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He had another encounter with the wild-dog, who treacherously attacked him in flank from ambuscade.
CHAPTER III
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Marsh and forty-six men, started for the scene of the uprising, and were ambuscaded by the Indians, twenty-eight of the men being killed and
Old Rail Fence Corners The A. B. C's. of Minnesota History
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Hence all the Gauls were ambuscaded and destroyed; many of the Romans also perished.
Dio's Rome, Volume 1 (of 6) An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek during the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form
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The group were active in the late 1980s and used to conduct daring ambuscades on mostly abusive police and local officials.
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But the worst feature was that they began firing their guns; so here we were in a deep lane from which there was no escape, and, as we afterwards ascertained, between the two halves of one of the most famous regiments in the British army, one ambuscaded by the other!
From John O'Groats to Land's End
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The instantaneous fashion with which the head of the ambuscader settled forward on its face told him all he wanted to know.
The Call of the Cumberlands
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It was a troubled time, with the world upside down, and we scratching with our fingernails to hold the Ruskis back by foray and ambuscade; in such disorders, anything is possible, even a woman fighting-chief.
The Sky Writer
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The troops in advance, he was persuaded, would never be able to come back to his aid up the face of that acclivity; besides which, he observed the utter bewilderment of the whole body at sight of the ambuscade.
Hellenica
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Somewhere nearby, I imagine, lying in ambuscade among the trees.
A TIME OF WAR
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The Amalekites and Canaanites, who had been lying in ambuscade expecting their movement, rushed down upon them from the heights and became the instruments of punishing their guilty rebellion.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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Glad to escape so easily, the young acolyte disappeared down the alley of fig trees, not without a furtive look at the patches of chickweed around their roots, the possible ambuscade of creeping or saltant vermin.
On the Frontier
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The enemy had overheard the firing and ambuscaded us.
Ben Comee A Tale of Rogers's Rangers, 1758-59
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Somewhere nearby, I imagine, lying in ambuscade among the trees.
A TIME OF WAR
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They were going down the path, directly beneath the ambuscade!
The Green-Eyed Shwemyethna
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Wherefore, then, did he steal in ambuscade into my palace, but to betray either my honor or my life, – perhaps both!
The Scottish Chiefs
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‘I grew up with it, getting to know the various places of battles, skirmishes, sieges, ambuscades, ancient strongholds and war trails,’ wrote William.
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O subjugator of all foes beginnest thou thy march when the time cometh, having taken into consideration all the omens you might see, the resolutions thou hast made, and that the ultimate victory depends upon the twelve mandalas (such as reserves, ambuscades, &c, and payment of pay to the troops in advance)?
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3
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Mr Campion shuddered to think of the kind of ambuscade Uncle William might have arranged had he ever conceived the idea of such a method of shelving the suspicion against him.
Police at the Funeral
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In politics, as in war, we meet with certain ardent minds which never understand the utility of marches, counter marches, ambuscades, and affairs of outposts.
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When a few weeks later it was reported in the papers that Wilcox had been shot at from an ambuscade, it was an open secret that McMurdo was still at work upon his unfinished job.
Chennai
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Sheldon's Horse ambuscaded a body of Hessians, only one of whom escaped.
The New York and Albany Post Road From Kings Bridge to "The Ferry at Crawlier, over against Albany," Being an Account of a Jaunt on Foot Made at Sundry Convenient Times between May and November, Nineteen Hundred and Five
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Colbert hastily collected the old men and boys of the tribe, and ambuscaded the Creeks so successfully that not one of them escaped.
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The waggon had just arrived at the gates, which were opened for the boat to enter, when the Athenians, with whom the whole affair had been preconcerted, seeing this movement, rushed out of the ambuscade, wanting to get in before the gates were shut again and while the waggon was still in them, and prevented them from being closed.
The History of the Peloponnesian War
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Lord Beaufort surprised them by a clever ambuscade from the stable wall; he told Mary he had been quite mistaken and wrong in what he had asserted, and he was sorry that she had overheard it.
The Semi-Attached Couple
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He was certainly to blame for not using greater caution on his march, but the coolness and intrepidity which he exhibited when he found himself ambuscaded, aided materially in restoring order and in inspiring his men with courage.
The Yankee Tea-party Or, Boston in 1773
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They walked as lightly as gymnasts, under a clear sky, through the fields, guided by the lights in the farmhouses, and at nine o'clock, having passed the frontier, they stumbled upon a post of Cossacks ambuscaded behind a hedge!
The French Immortals Series — Complete
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Albinus was ambuscaded and destroyed with his entire army by the Boii as he was traversing a wooded mountain.
Dio's Rome, Volume 1 (of 6) An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek during the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form
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But Rosie broke the compact and ambuscaded the poor fellow.
