" I laughed, my nerves tingling to the success of my rusehe had taken the tempting bait like a hungry fish.

Sheriff, keep an eye on them two tonight, and you'll have Sinclair playing right into your hands!" "Looks to me," muttered Red Chalmers, "like you had a grudge agin' Cartwright and Sandersen, using them for live bait and us for a trap.

If Eleanor weren't the most unconscious little bait that ever hung on a hook Jerry'd have turned away in disgust long ago.

The value which they possess is merely comparative; they exist only for others; they are never more than means; they are never an end and object in themselves; they are mere bait, set to catch others.

That none need be afraid, Caught by thy cunning bait, this book, To be ensnared on thy hook.

Red-headed bait.

But she was rich, and her money like charity covered a multitude of faults, and as soon as he saw the golden bait he caught at it, and they were married, for he was willing to do almost any thing for money, except work hard for it.

Printed bait, by John Frederick, pseud.

Blonde bait for the murder master.

The sense of man and all his mind possess, As beauty's loveliest bait, that doth procure Great warriors erst their rigour to suppress, And mighty hands forget their manliness, Driven with the power of an heart-burning eye, And lapt in flowers of a golden tress.

But he gives poison so to drink in gold, And hideth under pleasant baits his hook; But ye beware, it will be hard to hold Your greedy minds, but if ye wisely look What sly snake lurks under those flowers gay.

Sandy went on to the fourth and the fifth baits.

The Romans had probably long indulged in the sport of coursing hares and hunting foxes in presence of the public; now these innocent hunts were converted into formal baitings of wild animals, and the wild beasts of Africalions and pantherswere (first so far as can be proved in 568) transported at great cost to Rome, in order that by killing or being killed they might serve to glut the eyes of the gazers of the capital.

" I rose artlessly at the gross and palpable bait.

But the neighbors kept after this cormorant fellow, worked one beastly squeeze or another, ingenious baiting, devilishRot!

The serene old animal was leisurely devouring the juicy bait that had lured him to his present prison.

Into this foaming torrent I threw my heavily leaded bait.

To mark out to the company, how they ought to retire from all the luscious baits of temptation, and deny their appetites the gratifications that are most pleasing to them.

A crown's a pleasing bait to look upon; The craftiest fox will hardly 'scape this trap.

To what lengths might Mac not go if one dangled before him the priceless bait of a golden-tipped emperor goose, dressed in imperial robes of rose-flecked snow?

I used to have a cane chair sent down to the bank of the stream, a punkah, or hand fan, plenty of cooling drinks, and two coolie boys in attendance to remove the fish, renew baits, and keep the punkah in constant swing.

I have not yet done with this subject; and as it strikes me you are an angler, I think the article a seasonable bait for you.

I am afraid, general, that there is a little of the sogdollager bait in this?" "Not enough, sir, to catch the merest fresh-water gudgeon that swims.

Presumably these sorry crow-baits, which drooped and limped about the barren railroad yards at the back of the siding where the shell loaders squatted, had been whole-skinned and sound of wind and joint in early August.

"Priests, no better than spiritual make-baits, baraters, boute-feux, and incendiaries, and who make churches serve to worse purposes than bear gardens."