night-attack

He had seen the inn-keeper sneak off at their approach; and expecting some night-attack, he had taken up his lodging for the night in the stable.

Westward Ho! 2007

Scuddy to conduct the western division of this night-attack.

Springhaven Richard Doddridge 2004

This was how he would anticipate — by a night-attack, as might be — any forced maturity that a crammed consciousness of Paris was likely to take upon itself to assert on behalf of the boy.

The Ambassadors 2003

Dawnay and I sat down with a map and measured that Buxton should march from the Canal to Akaba; thence, by Rum, to carry Mudowwara by night-attack; thence by Bair, to destroy the bridge and tunnel near Amman; and back to Palestine on August the thirtieth.

Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003

I knew that Indians in a night-attack make signals by imitating the cry of some animal; and the sounds I heard, though like those made by wild beasts, seemed to me to be in reality human voices.

The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, February 1844 Volume 23, Number 2 Various

After consulting with his colleagues, Demosthenes determined to try the hazardous method of a night-attack, hoping thus to take the garrison on Euryelus by surprise.

Stories from Thucydides

Hwitserk received him hospitably, but Daxo had prepared an army with weapons, who were to feign to be trading, ride into the city in carriages, and break with a night-attack into the house of their host.

The Danish History, Books I-IX Grammaticus Saxo

The sergeant now opened the question of the night-attack.

Selected Polish Tales Else C. M. Benecke

From there we had intended to go back to Paris; but as we were starting there came an unexpected summons to another point of the front, where there had been a successful night-attack, and a lot of Germans taken in a blown-up trench.

Coming Home. 1915

A night-attack must of necessity always be a delicate operation.

On the Heels of De Wet Lionel James 1913