In Old England a poor man may starve right on his mother's bosom; there may be stores of fish in the river, and bird and fowl flying, and deer running by, and yet though a man's children be crying for bread, an' he catch a fish or snare a bird, he shall be snatched up and hanged.

You mind to snare me a hare to-night, now!'

Only fear to see Her visage, lest she snare thee and thou fall!

One day he went out into the woods to snare jungle-fowl, and he slept in the woods all night.

When we snared a rabbit, I always wanted to find it caught around the neck and strangled to death.

On and on we marched, through vaults of flowery smilax, where lianas with strange and gorgeous blossoms snared our feet in their twining ropy stems.

Ah! the brow of snow and the peach-bloom cheek may snare the heart of man for a time, but the loving look alone can forge that adamantine chain that time, age, eternity shall never break.

When their victuals were gone, necessity compelled them to stray in quest of whatever fish or fowl they could snare, which that coast did not yield in any great abundance.

She has a little feeling, She spreads a foolish net That snares her own weak footsteps, Not his for whom 't is set.

We will snare the elusive fossil together.

At six they went fishing, at nine they snared Young foxes in the dells, At noon on sweet berries and honey they fared, And blew in their twisted shells.

So long as the sunlight inspires our Rat with confidence, however, he will work at his coal-pit, while one comrade is away in the forest, snaring game, and another has, perhaps, been dispatched to the precincts of civilization with his wagon-load of coal.

But being now in the eleventh year of my residence, and, as I have said, my ammunition growing low, I set myself to study some art to trap and snare the goats, to see whether I could not catch some of them alive; and particularly, I wanted a she-goat great with young.

Stella had overtaken her work and snared a fleeting hour of idleness in mid-afternoon of a hot day in early August.

"From the first moment that I laid eyes on you, all the time that I was writing to Honora and really was trying to snare your interest, and after she came here,even when I absurdly commanded you not to write to me,and now, every moment since you set foot in my wild country, what have I done but say: 'Kate, will you stay with me?'" "And will I?"

"Try to snare a letter, or get a sight of the other party.

For, striving more, the more in laces strong Himselfe he tide, and wrapt his wingës twaine In lymie snares the subtill loupes among; That in the ende he breathelesse did remaine, 430

Rome, we know of a truth that with the bait of false forgiveness, thou hast snared in misery the nobility of France, the people of Paris and the noble King Louis (VIII., who died in the course of the Albigeois crusade); thou didst bring him to his death, for thy false preaching enticed him from his land.

You can snare a partridge, or shoot a woodcock, perhaps!" CHAPTER XIII.

And just as a man to some extent snares his personality with his near blood-relations in the form of family resemblances, so his handwriting often shows a subtle likeness to that of his near relatives.

She was an adventuress, a Cyprian, a seductress attempting to snare Peter in the brazen web of her comeliness.

Once upon a time a man went out to snare quail: he set his snares by the side of a mountain stream and then sat down under a bush to watch them.

The Onondaga in the next three or four days shot a large panther, a little bear, and caught in the traps and snares a quantity of small game.

She hath affected the very thing which will snare him the quickest.

O canst thou not remember the days of long ago, when my now despisèd beauty was a joy to thee, and my hair a very net to snare thy willing soul, and my eyes were more to thee than any diamonds, and these two arms were thy prison and thy chain, and this agitated bosom was thy pillow on which I lulled thee to slumber with the music of this very voice.