ambush

A Lion lay in ambush in the hope of making them his prey, but was afraid to attack them while they kept together.

“I thought as much—and knowing your admirable tenacity I was convinced that you were sitting in ambush, a weapon within reach, waiting for the tenant to return.

“Yes, we shall make our little ambush here.

de Villefort, that General Quesnel, whom they believed attached to the usurper, but who was really entirely devoted to me, has perished the victim of a Bonapartist ambush?”