surprisal

1 Surrounded by hostile tribes whose mode of warfare is by ambush and surprisal, he is always prepared for fight, and lives with his weapons in his hands.

2 The outages were part of an apparent protest by users after the surprisal removal of a popular employee, Victoria Taylor, Reddit’s director of talent and a facilitator of the Ask Me Anything feature.

3 The Spaniards supposed this to be through the fear of wild beasts, or of surprisals from neighboring tribes; the different nations of these coasts being extremely hostile to one another.

4 The disastrous surprisal of this hunting party is cited by Captain Bonneville to show the importance of vigilant watching and judicious encampments in the Indian country.

5 Upon another occasion, John of Gordon is said to have partially succeeded in the surprisal of the town of Berwick, although the superiority of the garrison obliged him to relinquish his enterprise.

6 As to the moderation of this war-party, they considered it assumed, to put them off their guard against some more favourable opportunity for a surprisal.

7 This analysis revealed that sentences with higher surprisal generate higher responses in the brain.

8 They also used a computational technique to quantify each sentence's "surprisal," or how uncommon it is compared to other sentences.

9 To the reader, so weary of marchings, manoeuvrings, surprisals, campings and details of war, not many words, we hope, may render these results conceivable.

10 It is one among their many greater advantages from this surprisal of the enemy, and sudden topsy-turvying of his plans.

11 For their expedition to rob our gardens, they had brought their sovereign’s sole heir along with them, as they never leave any of the royal family behind them, for fear of a surprisal.

12 He is so honourably merciful to women in surprisal, that only that makes him an excellent courtier.

13 And, by reason of that sudden surprisal, we, knowing ourselves innocent of the crime, were all exceedingly astonished and amazed, and consternated and affrighted even out of our reason.

14 The February revolution was a surprisal; old society was taken unawares; and the people proclaimed this political stroke a great historic act whereby the new era was opened.

15 But, O what a wonderful, yet blessed surprisal!

16 Were not you, Mr Beamont, and you, Collins both accessary to the horrid plot, for the surprisal of this fort and island?

17 "This surprisal," says M. Darn, "caused inexpressible joy in Venice; after so many disasters there was seen a gleans of hope."

18 And, next to a deep and all-absorbing love of God, there is nothing so well adapted to protect against sudden surprisals, as a profound and definite fear of God.

19 Her mind wrestled with the thought of this senseless, dishonourable surprisal until she became involved in a train of ideas which carried her away.

20 The tradition probably refers to an unsuccessful attempt at surprisal by their enemies.

1 惊奇

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2 偷袭

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3 奇袭

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