We were to lurk in ambush there, and waylay an unwary traveller.

Law, morality, religion, are to him so many bourgeois prejudices, behind which lurk in ambush just as many bourgeois interests.

He said: Now, because Thou hast sent me astray, verily I shall lurk in ambush for them on Thy Right Path.

Their plan was to lurk in ambush near the sandy beaches where canoes stop for the night, and then fall upon the people whilst asleep.

Death, unforeseen and unexpected, lurks in ambush for them in a thousand places.

A champion of the downtrodden, not an assassin lurking in ambush.

Here the Achaeans lurked in ambush for the prince.

The village police sergeant had been lurking in ambush, waiting to catch motorists at the new sign.

I do feel rather loath to leave you, but death is every where, always lurking in ambush.

Half way up the stairs little Paul, shining and rosy from supper, lurked in ambush for his evening game.

The foe must be lurking in ambush dangerously near them, for who else would have set off the gun?

Rather an awkward place for cavalry, should there be any infantry lurking in ambush, watching to give them a hot reception.

It mattered not that the way was hidden; it mattered less that weeds, brush, and stumps lurked in ambush for unwary feet.

The girl that breasted the crests of the foot-hills shrank in terror from the loneliness and the suggestion of foes lurking in ambush.

A civilization so brilliant and so versatile as this seemed to have an infinite future before it, yet even here death lurked in ambush.

Blinding blue-white light blazed through the curtain as I dove through it-andshowed me the fetch that had lurked in ambush on the other side.