Ambushes, e.g

Usage examples of surprises.

Ever vigilant, Augusta Merriweather did not like surprises or unexpected visitors, no matter how far she might be from home.

Amongst the surprises which the future was preparing for me, this might not be the least.

We had now arrived on the first platform, where other surprises awaited me.

There came another of these beastly surprises of which the moon world is full.

I told him of routs and surprises, and desperate last stands and faint hopes, and the pitiless pursuit of fugitives and the dead upon the field.

The city was full of sights and surprises, strange people and new experiences.

In the meantime there are answers to all your other messages -- and a new message which surprises me.

It surprises me only because of your wonderfully well-demonstrated love of a man.

In fact, being of a childlike nature, his success as a professor of botany quite pleased him, and not content with answering my questions, he set to work to find new vegetable surprises, greatly enjoying my wonder and the sense of importance it gave him.

Pikel described himself, and the gnome alchemist, to help in setting unconventional and unpleasant surprises for the invaders.

Another surprise, and Demandred did not like surprises, especially not at Shayol Ghul.

You keep too many secrets, Wormwood, and pull more surprises from your sleeve than a gleeman.