677 examples of ambushed in sentences

Under the circumstances it was no wonder that the garrison, upon hearing the reports of our guns when we fired upon the party whom we ambushed, should have thought the Indians were coming back to give them another "turn.

Let archers line these banks east and west: let the pikemen be ambushed to the south, until we from the north have charged them with the horsesee 'tis done, Fulk, and silentlyso peradventure, Sir Gilles shall trouble me no more.

More than one of Harry's informants described the action to the poor lad,the passage of the river, the long line of advance through the wilderness, the firing in front, the vain struggle of the men to advance, and the artillery to clear the way of the enemy; then the ambushed fire from behind every bush and tree, and the murderous fusillade, by which at least half of the expeditionary force had been shot down.

Then, while in an unguarded state because of this very success, he was ambushed by the quaestor, lost a large portion of his army, and withdrew into Numidia.

For the barbarians prepared in turn some boats made of one piece of wood with which they risked a conflict; and on the river they killed besides many others Menas the freedman of Sextus, and on the land they vigorously repulsed the invader until they ascertained that some of their allies had been ambushed and destroyed.

He hunted with them too sometimes, chiefly by coming up and scaring rabbits towards where the cubs lay ambushed, so that the bunnies ran straight into their jaws.

She felt as if she had been ambushed.

Here, fatigued and exhausted by their difficult march and suffering from the effects of the altitude (16,000 ft.), his men found themselves ambushed by the Inca, who with a small party, "little more than eighty Indians," "attacked the Christians, who numbered twenty-eight or thirty, and killed Captain Villadiego and all his men except two or three."

A novel, therefore, is frequently "bread eaten in secret"; and it is not upon Lydia Languish's toilet alone that Tom Jones and Peregrine Pickle are to be found ambushed behind works of a more grave and instructive character.

Allen, watching her with his ambushed eyes, said, "Don't take it to heart, Tudie.

Women ambushed in coverts shot the Russians as they rummaged the captured trains for much-needed food.

The same instant brought piercing screams from the column of women ahead; for the signal had been given while they were in the lane of cedars where the Indian allies of the Saints had been ambushed.

A detachment of troops was ambushed and badly cut up.

HAYCOX, ERNEST. Ambushed.

Jill Marie Haycox (W); 10Mar54; R126817. HAYCOX, JILL MARIE. Ambushed.

If a chief, or any other individual, be smitten by a female of a different tribe, he endeavors to waylay her; and if she be surprised in any quiet place, the ambushed lover rushes upon her, beats her about the head with his waddy till she becomes senseless, when she is dragged in triumph to his hut.

Colonel Strong left his scouts and flankers to deal with the ambushed warriors, and the main column, face to the front, marched steadily toward Colden's camp.

"All we wanted to do was to sting the Ojibway and not to let him forget that those who ambush may be ambushed.

Behind the covert, where this temple stands, Thick as the shades, there issue swarming bands Of ambushed men, whom, by their arms and dress, To be Taxallan enemies I guess.

By ambushed men, behind their temple laid, We have the king of Mexico betrayed.

Our errand was to kidnap Saint-Castin from his hold, not to get ourselves ambushed by the Abenaquis.

They threw down their muskets, and turned on the ambushed Canadians, short sword in hand.

" "It is a gloomy prospect," muttered Coronado, thinking of the hundred miles of rocky desert, and of the possibility that Apaches might be ambushed at the end of it.

To each of these gentlemen she sent an epistle recounting where, when, and how Lieutenant Ralph Thurstane had been ambushed by unknown Indians, supposed to be Apaches.

A body of cavalry, starting from camp with the view of breaking up a nest of rangers, and absent say three days, would return with a number of their own forces killed and wounded (ambushed), without being able to retaliate farther than by foraging on the country, destroying a house or two reported to be haunts of the guerrillas, or capturing non-combatants accused of being secretly active in their behalf.

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