Ambuscade

Wherefore, then, did he steal in ambuscade into my palace, but to betray either my honor or my life, – perhaps both! ❋ Unknown (1875)

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. ❋ Unknown (1871)

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. ❋ Unknown (1860)

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. ❋ Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966 (1931)

He had another encounter with the wild-dog, who treacherously attacked him in flank from ambuscade. ❋ Unknown (2010)

They were going down the path, directly beneath the ambuscade! ❋ Unknown (2010)

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. ❋ Geoff Barbanell (2010)

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. ❋ Unknown (2010)

If you are still reading this and have not clicked over to Blogger #2145's latest Sarah Palin ambuscade, you may suspect this blog falls within the parameters of The Most Fascinating Person I Have Known or A Teacher Who Changed My Life and you would be right on both counts. ❋ Unknown (2009)

If I can catch this knave alive, who, as thou sayest, skulks in stealthy ambuscade and plots his mischief, I will impale him at the outlet of the gates and set him up for vultures of the air to make their meal upon. ❋ Unknown (2008)

In this manner the proposed ambuscade was discovered. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Duke of Rothsay with being director of the ambuscade by which the unfortunate bonnet maker had suffered. ❋ Unknown (2008)

“Whose word am I to take for this?” answered the cautious soldier — “A man must know his guarantee, or he may fall into an ambuscade.” ❋ Unknown (2008)

He felt that the police were there somewhere in ambuscade, waiting for the signal agreed upon and ready to stretch out their arm. ❋ Unknown (2008)

But hand me that great-coat, Captain, and we will place the instruments in ambuscade, until they are called into action in due time. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The whole town was in a wild but joyful jubilee, while the citizens vied with each other in offering to the Swiss every species of refreshment, and the youths who attended upon the mission hurried gayly, and in triumph, to profit by the circumstances, which had so unexpectedly converted the ambuscade so treacherously laid for them, into a genial and joyous reception. ❋ Unknown (2008)

This little party crossed the moat by the temporary bridge, and moved on to the verge of the forest, which lay adjacent to the castle, and the skirts of which were most likely to conceal any ambuscade that could be apprehended. ❋ Unknown (2008)

It is not half-an-hour since your father galloped up, and stated that you had been led into an ambuscade by the treachery of the Stradiots, and made prisoner. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Durward could form no better or safer plan for their security, than that, evading the ambuscade, they should take the road to Liege by the left hand of the Maes, and throw themselves, as the ladies originally designed, upon the protection of the excellent Bishop. ❋ Unknown (2008)