It carried him to a trap from which she had taken prey, for it was newly baited and the snow was sprinkled with blood.

What could any man find to smile at in such a model of virtuous propriety as yourself?" He was baiting her openly, and she knew it.

But I can't be answerable for the consequences if anyone sets to work to bait Robin persistently.

Do I come home so seldom, and that seldom Am I thus baited?

" The Doctor himself gained such a reputation as an expert spiritual fisherman, that some of his parishioners, like experienced old trout, played shy of his hook, though never so skilfully baited.

Have ye not at all times together His sacred genius baited sore, The silent fury fanned to flaming, Delighted in your work before?

How he had been offhand with it, how he had made it parenthetic, that he didn't happen "personally" to know Basil Frenchas if it would have been at all likely he should know him, even im personally, and as if he could conceal from her the fact that, since she had made him her overture, this gentleman's name supremely baited her hook!

But wantonly baiting the redcoats had already become a most discreditable general practice.