The surprisal of a castle in the Alps by the secret march of the Imperialists, could scarcely have determined him to relinquish the possession of Italy, if the inclinations of the people had supported the cause of their tyrant.
While the Alemanni appeared to be humbled by their recent calamities, the pride of Valentinian was mortified by the unexpected surprisal of Moguntiacum, or Mentz, the principal city of the Upper Germany.
But in spite of all our address, we could not effect a complete surprisal of them.
Unless by surprisal and extreme despatch, there is clearly no hope!
It is one among their many greater advantages from this surprisal of the enemy, and sudden topsy-turvying of his plans.
To attempt the surprisal of this isolated post, thus strongly fortified, was a perilous enterprise.
Two objects were contemplated by him: one, the surprisal of the British works at the north end of New York Island; the other the capture or destruction of Delancey's corps of refugees in Morrisania.
The surprisal of General Huger's camp was complete.
The surprisal of this was entrusted to Tarleton, who, with his dragoons was in Webster's advanced guard.
This was the surprisal of the old forts of Ticonderoga and Crown Point, already famous in the French war.
An insurrection was projected, together with a surprisal of the Castle of Dublin, by some of the disbanded soldiers; but this design was happily defeated by the vigilance of Ormond.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "surprisal" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: blow; bomb; bombshell; catch; joker; kicker; revelation; shocker; surprise; switch; thunderbolt
