This the Good Knight left to be defended by a few men-at-arms and archers, who were to remain in ambush until they had seen the troop from Treviso go by, and await their return.
But Manfroni, who had heard of the whole manoeuvre from his spy, had prepared an ambush in a deserted palace near, where he had about six hundred pikemen and arquebusiers.
All was carried out as arranged, for when the men inambush were left behind, all the rest of the brave company galloped on to Isola, as if they knew nothing of what awaited them.
Then he told the whole story from beginning to end of the proposed treachery; how Manfroni would have an ambush of two hundred men-at-arms and two thousand foot-soldiers to make sure of Bayard's destruction.
A number of Venetians made an ambush under some thick trees about a bow-shot from the walls, then they hid behind the hay-waggons and crept in through the gates, which at a given signal they opened to their comrades.
You see, the idea is that Rupert Dunsmore will be there at four, and that I'm to be there in ambush to murder myself.
Our idea is to watch all the roads leading to Ottam's Wood and to have men in ambush near the spring to seize any one hiding there at that time.
There he lay in ambush with fell intent; and when the supposed author of his shame arrived, greeted him in the dark with such a salutation as forced him to stagger backward three paces at least.
In tall and close-set ranks they serve to hide from view and shield from ambush the long, low Indian houses, twenty-four in number.
Passing on to where he knew he would find the Senecas, he warned them of their danger, and arranged that an ambush of his kinsfolk should lie in wait for the Illinois.
The Crows, as has been said, made an ambush for their enemies, and rushed out on the middle portion of the line.
Or they may ambushus at some spot and shoot us full of arrows without warning.
Without losing a moment Raal ordered his archers to find an ambush shutting off the invaders from the spring.
They knew full well it would be difficult to throw this wolf off the scent; understood that if any attempt was made to ambush the trail, they must cope with woodcraft keener than an Indian's.
Out of line, somewhat, with this tree which he suspected screened his comrade, lay a huge windfall large enough to conceal in ambush a whole band of savages.
By common consent the pioneers attributed any mysterious deed, from the finding of a fat turkey on a cabin doorstep, to the discovery of a savage scalped and pulled from his ambush near a settler's spring, to Wetzel and Jonathan.
So numerous were these enemies, For him that did in ambush lie, All Danneved’s swains they took their leave, And from their lord did basely fly.
After sun-down we went out a second time inambush after hyena.
I sallied forth about four miles from Ain Mokra, and lay in ambush for boars, but none appeared, and only shot some jackals--a very poor substitute for the nobler game I had missed.
If Josiana had been able to see clearly through the night of Barkilphedro, if she had been able to distinguish what lay in ambush behind his smile, that proud woman, so highly situated, would have trembled.
These lurkings in ambush for the convenient hour to strike the enemy a death-blow in the back are attributes to loyalty.
When ensconced, I found that my ambush barely screened me, and, what was more serious, it seemed much farther from the pool than in the bloodthirsty moment when I had decided to use it.
I looked straight before my muzzle, pretending to take no notice of the plague, and as soon as I landed, lay down in my old ambush that half concealed me from the exasperating bird.
The hare was yet some thirty yards down the hill but coming like the wind, when I dropped quietly into my ambush and gathered my legs under me.
It was bitter work watching with the gale in your teeth, but I might have noticed it less had the ambush been a little nearer the water.
For Marcellus had not let the critical moment pass by, but when the shouts rose above the hills, bidding his men spring from their ambush at a rapid pace and with loud shouts he fell on the enemy's rear and began to cut them down.
Then several puffs of white smoke and ringing reports betrayed the ambush of the tricksters.
It afforded an ambush that even the Indian eyes Jean Isbel was credited with could never penetrate.
This heah secret bizness an' shootin' at us from ambush looked aboot Jorth's size to me.
Queen traveled slowly, either because he was wounded or else because he tried to ambush his pursuer, and Jean accommodated his pace to that of Queen.
The meaning of Ellen Jorth lying in ambushjust to see an Isbel was a conundrum she refused to ponder in the present.
Valentine warmly thanked the stranger, who offered to lead them by a path he was acquainted with, which would enable them to escape the ambush and reach the river side with little loss of time.
The Sire de Pirenne's death was murder, ambush out of the dark, he said.
The warrior left behind for purposes of ambush was to rejoin them at noon, but at the appointed hour he did not come.
Such as they formed the bestambush for Indian canoes watching to pounce upon the immigrant boats coming down the Ohio.
Henry heard them talking, but he had no wish for an encounter even with the advantage of ambush and surprise on his side.
Henry wished to give rest to a part of his crew and he knew also that in the night they would pass the mouth of the Licking, opposite the site of Cincinnati, a favorite place of ambush for the Indian boats.
Indians love to talk, and the debate went on for a long time, but at last it was decided, much against the will of Timmendiquas, that if they could not catch Clark in an ambush they would abandon Chillicothe and retreat toward Piqua.
Throughout its whole course dense forests grew along the Ohio, and an ambush might be planted anywhere.
They had been found, because they permitted themselves to be found, and evidently they had fought with all the advantage of ambush and skill.
The fertile brain and the invincible spirit of the great Wyandot would plant an ambush at every turn.
He knew little of ambush and the trail, but he was ready to spend his strength and blood for the good of his own people.
They did not intend that the army should fall into an ambush through any fault of theirs.
The ambush had been laid, not for them in particular, but for any boat that might pass.
Hence he detached Alonso de Cardenas Ulloa, with fifty light horsemen, to post himself in ambush by the road the bridal party had to travel.
Ali Atar privately and by night sent forth a large body of his chosen troops to lie in ambush near one of the skirts of Albohacen.
The marauders soon gave way and fled toward the ambush on the banks of the Lopera, being hotly pursued by the men of Utrera.
When they reached the Lopera the Moors in ambush rushed forth with furious cries, and the fugitives, recovering courage from this reinforcement, rallied and turned upon their pursuers.
He accordingly arranged an ambush with much skill, by means of which he hoped to bring on a general engagement and destroy Mondragon and his little army.
The knowledge of the place and the paths will enable us to lay an ambush for them, and to rescue the young lady without much danger to ourselves.
They, behind the shrubs, Where Medon sent such numbers to the shades, In ambush lie.
Robin saw the ambushwas broken, and would fain have been back in the greenwood, but many an arrow still rained on his company.
And Jonathan knew that there was an ambush behind him, and they surrounded his army, and cast darts at the people from morning till evening.
And when the king of Hai saw this, he made haste in the morning, and went out with all the army of the city, and set it in battle array, toward the desert, not knowing that there lay an ambushbehind his back.
And commanded them, saying: Lay an ambush behind the city: and go not very far from it: and be ye all ready.
And behold the army of the strangers met him in the plain, and they laid an ambush for him in the mountains: but he went out against them.
Dalila bound him again with these, and cried out: The Philistines are upon thee, Samson, there being an ambush prepared for him in the chamber.
And they that were in ambush arose on a sudden out of their coverts, and whilst Benjamin turned their backs to the slayers, went into the city, and smote it with the edge of the sword.
And they set an ambush against him on the top of the mountains: and while they waited for his coming, they committed robberies, taking spoils of all that passed by: and it was told Abimelech.
And he had chosen five thousand men, and set them to lie in ambush between Bethel and Hai, on the west side of the same city: Five thousand.
And they that lay in ambush rose out of their places, and joined battle.
He sitteth in ambush with the rich, in private places, that he may kill the innocent.
