So Max, while not wishing to deliberately tell the man to his face that he was a prevaricator, set about catching him in a little trap.

The boys were on their ponies, and Miss Bertram in her pony trap, with Rob sitting behind, proud in the consciousness of a new suit of clothes, and delighted at being included in the number.

"The assignation might be a cunning trap, in any case it was a curious one; why, she argued, did not Smethurst elect to see Kershaw at his hotel the following day?

We stand up in the stirrups and peep over, and there below us is a narrow but deep quarry, a veritable death trap for the unwary sportsman.

They set out better traps of massive steel and iron bars, and at length they caught a killer, the Mokelumne Grizzly; yes, and read in the dust how he had come at last and made the fateful step; but steel will break and iron will bend.

Following the broad trail Wayeeses would find here a trapped animal, struggling desperately with the clog and the cruel gripping teeth, there the flayed carcass of a lynx or an otter, and yonder the leg of a dog or a piece of caribou meat hung by a cord over a runway, with the snow disturbed beneath it where the deadly trap was hidden.

"The same, I suppose, who prepared that ingenious trap in Lambeth?" "I am not here to reveal to you who they are, signore, only to warn you to have a care of yourself," was the Italian's reply.

"You saw that I was half dead with terror; that I hardly knew what I was doing; that all I could think of was escape from the horrible trap that had been set for me; you" "So that was it?"

The syce carried back the silk hat to Shere Ali's smart trap, and Shere Ali drove home in his helmet.

It was a dirty task to lay so subtle a trap even for a dirty Irish-American spy.

The door was closed, the windows downdirty windows, every corner of every pane with its dirty cobweb trap and skeletons of flies.

I had laid a line of sable traps for miles through the woods, and caught several "prime" sable which I intended as a present to my fiancée, and the long walks over the line in the absolute silence of the great forest, the snowfall, and the gorgeous autumn were more fascinating than ever before.

Always she was watching for those treacherous, frost-coated traps in the ice her father had spoken of.

"Well, one of your clever traps worked like a charm, Obed," Steve was saying, and doubtless meaning to compliment the fur farmer.

So great was the distress of the Hun forces that it was believed Marshal Foch had laid a vast trap and was using the fresh and enthusiastic Yankees to drive a dividing wedge between Ludendorff's two armies, when a colossal surrender must inevitably follow.

But he pretended to be deaf, and quietly got into bed, all the while cursing his accomplice, and thinking of the clumsy trap into which he had fallen like a fool, and of that thick and filthy spider's web where, like an unwary and silly fly, he had daubed his wings.

One night he saw her two brothers leave, about midnight, for some distant traps that would take them all day to reach.

Charles Addams (A); 11Oct68; R445364. While you're here there's a squeaky trap door I'd like you to look at.

"Let us catch him," said Rollo, very eagerly; "do let us catch him; I will go and get our steeple trap.

Wherefore the birds of passage proclaimed the man, this human mountain-ash in which they nested and of whose berries they ate, to be in reality a dangerous trap; and they seemed hardly able to see the visible berries for the invisible snares.

At that time I did not see the dastardly trap he had laid in order to get me out of the Baron's clutches and wring from me my secret.

"It will be mighty hard on his nerves," said he, "if he comes to know how he squatted and worked for days and weeks over that diabolical trap that opens downward.

The dingy trap and limping rawboned hack which carry her to the outskirts of the town scarcely harmonise with so much glory.

he:"This Indian may be all right, and maybe he will lead us all into a dreadful trap.

The Wrekin is composed of igneous rocks, and is one of the most remarkable examples of eruptive trap in England.