Lorn held the loch in his boats, and ambushed a party on the ridge commanding the pass.
By direction of the King, the Marshal (or March) ambushed at night in Duns Park, where he was joined by Randolph and Douglas.
They reached the rock strewn wash where Chuck had been ambushed and stopped while the Circle Four cowboy picked up his saddle.
First, there had been the shooting on the Sky High trail, in which Chuck had been ambushed and then the attempt to kill the owner of the Box B.
Cook was the man who had ambushed the owner of the Box B.
Chapter Thirteen Fading Trails The ride to the mouth of Wolf coulee was uneventful and the sun was swinging high above the Cajons when they reached the scene where the owner of the Box B had been ambushed the night before.
I therefore ventured further inland, and visited the locality where the white men had been ambushed by the Zulus.
The Shawnees had ambushed six of his advance scouts, and killed two.
He and James Paull and four others were threading homeward from the battle trail when several Indians hadambushed them; with one volley killed two, then had summoned the rest to surrender.
But runners came to them, with the news that after the withdrawal from Bryant's the Kentucky column hadambushed a Long Knife army including Daniel Boone men, at the lucky Blue Licks, and defeated it badly.
The Arikaras ambushed the boat and killed all the party except Hugh Glass.
In the nest year, 1779, old Captain John Brady, the father, was ambushed and murdered, by other Indians.
It pierced the tumult of waters, found the ambushed rocks, and guided the lithe brown arms and hands, so that the swift paddle drove the canoe straight onward, as a fish drives itself through a flume of dragon's teeth beneath the flood.
Even on the verge of the last ambushed passage her senses came back; but they came with a stark realization of the peril ahead: it looked out of her eyes as a face shows itself at the window of a burning building.
It is the war-whoop of the braves, Of Kerr's famed Mohawk crew, Who near Fitzgibbon ambushed lie To serve that lonely few.
A long-range patrol of Marines from Company A, 1st Battalion, 1st Marines ambushed a sizable Japanese force near Taivu on 19 August.
The landing was made without incident and the 7th Marines’ companies moved inland only to be ambushed and cut off from the sea by the Japanese.
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.
We have no lizard that destroys the bee; but our tree-toad, ambushed among the apple and cherry blossoms, snaps them up wholesale.
On lifting up the leaf I discovered that a hairy spider was ambushed there and had the bee by the throat.
A party of Virginians, under a man named McClure, followed him: but he ambushed and defeated them, slaying their leader.
Yet those who left him did not in the end fare better, for they were ambushed and cut off, when they had gone down to Natchez, apparently by Indians.
The whites were forced to pursue with the greatest caution; for those of them who advanced heedlessly were certain to beambushed and receive a smart check.
On the 27th Cresap and his followers ambushed these men near Captina, and killed and scalped them.
They burned down the lonely log-huts, ambushed travellers, shot the men as they hunted or tilled the soil, ripped open the women with child, and burned many of their captives at the stake.
The full-grown Spider hunts trapper-fashion, ambushed in her tower; the young one hunts afoot through the scrubby grass.
This Diana, ambushed in her tower, needs a prey worthy of her prowess.
To save herself from keeping a close watch that would degenerate into drudgery and to remain alive to events even when resting, with her back turned on the net, the ambushed Spider always has her foot upon the telegraph-wire.
They followed them on horseback into Lincoln, about two and a half miles from Lexington village, where they were ambushed by the ones they were following, and taken prisoners.
The British in pursuit supposing they were ambushed in turn, retreated and made good their escape.
Through the rest of Arlington the march was uneventful, save the capture of the scouts sent out from Lexington, who were so neatly ambushed and taken.
As we have previously written, they were ambushed and captured at about 10 o'clock on the road towards Concord, in the town of Lincoln, by the same ones they had set out to follow.
There could be no earthly doubt of the fact that the Iroquois and some Tories were ambushed on the far side of the creek.
He examined the fields and forest for a little distance to see if any ambushed foe might still lie among them, but all the while the flame and smoke behind him were rising higher.
It would have been difficult for any ambushed marksman to have escaped his notice.
Henry and his comrades were aware that Indian bands still lurked in the forest, and they had several narrow escapes from the bullets of ambushed foes, but the progress of the army was irresistible.
In the darkness, Boyd unconsciously passed the encampment of Butler and his force, who were ambushed near Lake Conesus, waiting for Sullivan.
This led to his moving forward and to his being ambushed in a valley, the head of which was held by loyalists, while Indian allies under Brant occupied the sides.
He said there might be rebels anywhere, and we were liable to be ambushed and killed, but we must never come back alive without sheep meat.
I told him the reason was that I was wading in a swamp, after the rebels that ambushed some of our boys the day before.
Night was swallowing him up with all the ambushed traps of a virgin forest while before his eyes was sparkling a great city, crowned with electric diamonds, throwing a halo of flame into the blackness of space.
The radiographic stations were watching for him the entire length of the coast, advising him of changes in his course that he might avoid the ambushed enemy.
The Sioux would follow them, but they could seldom accomplish anything because they were always in danger of being ambushed by the retreating Chippewas.
Don't follow the road to Fort Ridgely or New Ulm, or you'll be ambushed there in the timber.
I saw some that had long red bunches of currant-like berries ambushed among the foliage.
The Whites and the Blacks hunted each other, ambushed each other, butchered each other.
I took no account of the Ambushed Enemy when I said on that New Year's night that I was happy.
Accustomed to rise early, I rarely fail to note the first glimmer of the dawn, and the first shaft of sunlight was levelled straight at my eyes, as by a marksman ambushed behind the looking-glass.
Of all the risky journeys, that on an ambushed river is the most risky, in my judgment, and that risk has Jasper run.
As I'm a Christian white man, they have bit at the bait, and have ambushed the smoke!
Up the rocky hill toiled the horses, arching their necks as they stooped their faces to avoid the blinding rain: and soon the huge blot of prison walls, like a crouching monster ambushed in surrounding gloom, barred the way.
She could defy the district solicitor, the judge, the jury; but only one method of silencing the battery that was ambushed in those gleaming blue eyes presented itself.
Then some strange awful curse that had lain in wait, ambushed among the flowers I gathered that last day of my dead existence, fell upon me--I saw you!
To the soldier or the trader, fresh from the harsh scenery and ambushed perils of the surrounding wilds, the secluded settlement was welcome as an oasis in the desert.
They huddled together in the road like flocks of sheep; and happy did he think himself who could wedge his way into the midst of the crowd, and place a barrier of human flesh between his life and the shot of the ambushed marksmen.
They said they were ambushed between two lines of fire, and shouted, “Come, get a gun, and take pot luck with us.
On my second journey to the field of operations we were ambushed by a body of Germans, who pounced out of a wood, but not one of them got back to tell the tale.
On November 7 the garrison made a very successful sortie, drawing the Boers under the fire of our ambushed artillery by a feigned retreat.
The bushrangers had ambushed the party and shot them at their leisure, and did the business as coolly and with as much indifference as though the poor fellows had been sheep, and the ruffians hungry and in want of mutton.
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