Thy pale rays have often sufficiently lighted us, for our marching in a body without mistaking our way; and have enabled us not only to discover the ambushes of the enemy, but often to surprize him asleep.
So they threw themselves into two ambushes with the object of enticing our men away from the shore and employing their strength safely and without danger to themselves.
All these men were Indians, long habituated to a war of ambushes and surprises: this bold stroke was a Godsend to them: with flashing eyes and quivering lips, though apparently unmoved, they impatiently awaited the signal for departure.
When Antigonus heard of this, he sent some of his party with orders to hinder, and lay ambushes for these collectors of corn.
He then sent a party of horsemen, and ordered they should lay ambushes for those that went out into the valleys to gather food.
Thanks to their ramifications, and to the network underlying their relations, Babet, Gueulemer, Claquesous, and Montparnasse were charged with the general enterprise of the ambushes of the department of the Seine.
Our little ones, and all we have, shall be in walled cities, for fear of the ambushes of the inhabitants.
Abimelech, therefore, arose with all his army, by night, and laid ambushes near Sichem in four places.
And when I was told ofambushes that they had prepared for him, I sent him to thee, signifying also to his accusers to plead before thee.
And the children of Israel set ambushes round about the city of Gabaa: 20:30.
The ambushes also, which were about the city, began by little and little to come forth, 20:34.
And when Saul was come to the city of Amalec, he laid ambushes in the torrent.
And he took his army, and divided it into three companies, and laid ambushes in the fields.
Which the children of Israel seeing, gave them place to flee, that they might come to the ambushes that were prepared, which they had set near the city.
Therefore, desirous of seizing him, Corralat ordered ambushes to be set, and took other means to secure his end.
He surrounded the village with a high stockade, with its sentry-boxes and towers for the sentinels who stood watch at night, by means of which they were safe from the continual ambushes of the enemy.
Boguslav was forced to send in that direction all his light cavalry, which after it had gone three miles dared neither return nor advance, for fear of ambushes in the forest.
Old castles, fortresses once upon a time, hamlets that had been camps, farms covered with ambushes and snares, divided by ditches and fenced in by trees, formed the meshes of the net in which the Republican armies were caught.
The maritime peoples were accustomed to make many raids, and those of the interior to set ambushes for such depredations, wasting life in this.
The maritime folk were wont to go out upon many raids, and those ashore to set strange ambushes for their robberies, to the great loss of life.
We could not expect to see much more animal life out of our pit ambushes after all the banging and talking in which we had indulged.
Of such ambushes and fervour of swords I have not heard aught of thee, else had the fiend I come to vanquish never accomplished such horrors against thy prince.
Now we take up our work of looking out for ambushes again, Malcolm.
I should advise you to be as careful as before, and to be on your guard against ambushes and surprises.
As long as it was dark they remained silent; in spite of themselves they submitted to the influence of the obscurity, and apprehended ambushes on every side.
Ambushes and violences multiplied around me, but I resisted.
The Portuguese either eluded them, or the Dutch fell into the ambushes prepared for them, and suffered loss without being able to retaliate.
Among the ambushes of broad daylight, it means the better distribution of the different forms of labor; among the ambushes of night, it stands for that of tender and identical sleep.
Many who strayed from the army fell into the ambushes of the Saracens, and lost either their lives or their liberty.
Their tactics consisted in wearing out their enemies, in preparing ambushes for them, or in drawing them into difficult positions, where they might triumph without fighting.
I will not speak to you of the snares and the ambushes that they have everywhere planted in your way; we have seen the priests of Byzantium mingling ridicule with outrage, purify with fire the altars at which our priests had sacrificed.
Sometimes the infidels got before the Christians, and ravaged the country and filled up the wells and the cisterns; whilst at others, they laid ambushes for them, and massacred all who strayed away from the main body.
The wood concealed ambushes of German infantry and machine guns, which were a thorn in the side of the Americans on the outskirts.
These ambushes of the enemy were turned over to the tender mercies of the American batteries, which wiped them out.
Machine guns and American light artillery played on the woods, and the Germans were finally uprooted from their main ambushes there.
And though Hannibal often used stratagems, and laid ambushes to entrap Marcellus, yet he could never circumvent him.
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