845 examples of snare in sentences

Doctrine does not save from hell, but it does save from many a snare that besets the feet of man.

The rebels, uncertain whether it was not a trap to snare them, move with caution, while far to the left a turning column is hurrying to hem the Union group in on every side.

His very simplicity is a snare to him.

The whole story was told to Tisquantum; and his counsel was asked as to the best mode of now counteracting the further schemes of the traitors, and escaping the snare which they found was yet to be laid for their destruction.

If it was these poor half-starved labourers, that snare the same hares that have been eating up their garden-stuff all the week, I can't touch them, sir, and that's truth; but these ruffiansAnd yet, sir, wouldn't it be better for the parsons to preach to them, than for the keepers to break their heads?' 'Oh?' said Lancelot, 'the parsons say all to them that they can.' Tregarva shook his head.

And she, sweet creature! walked straight into the pleasant snare, utterly blind, because she fancied that she saw clearly.

But thou who only couldst the serpent tame, Either his slippery knots at once untie, And disentangle all his winding snare, Or shatter too with him my curious frame, And let these wither, that so he may die, Though set with skill, and chosen out with care; That they, while thou on both their spoils dost tread, May crown thy feet that could not crown thy head.

Angered by the interruption, for there is nothing a man like John Heron hates worse, he snapped out: "You have been trying to snare the affections of my son; you have even cast lascivious eyes at the stranger within our gates.

First to plant strong guard About the mother, then into some snare To hunt this spotted Panther and there kill him.

Lyons may hunted be into the snare,

This has nearly as much to commend it to the self-respecting sportsman as the practice of imitating the cry of the female moose to lure the bull to mad recklessness and his undoing, a challenge hard for a courageous animal to resist, a treacherous snare set before his feet.

" "It was you who trapped me and caught me as in a snare!"

He perceived the snare, and when I commanded him to begin, he said firmly: "No, I have nothing to tell; I am innocent.

trampa, f., trap, snare.

She shuddered at the thought of the villain from whose snare she had been rescued: and yet, his image as he had been to her in the brief golden time when she believed him noble, and chivalrous, and true, haunted her lonely days, mixed itself with her troubled dreams, came between her and every other thought.

Gracchus, not suspecting any treachery either from his words or the nature of the proposal, and being caught by the probability of the thing, set out from the camp with his lictors and a troop of horse, under the guidance of his host, and fell headlong into the snare.

The partridge, grouse and pheasant are all dainty birds, but if we desire to eat them we must shoot them, or (proh pudor!) snare them.

It is a mean and cruel Artifice to make this Proposal at a time when he thinks our Necessities must compel us to any thing; but we will not eat the Bread of Shame; and therefore we charge thee not to think of us, but to avoid the Snare which is laid for thy Virtue.

Thou saw'st the spider swing her snare.

Gather you, gather you, hounds of hell Famine, and Plague, and War; Idleness, Bigotry, Cant, and Misrule, Gather, and fall in the snare!

For, as his hearers are men who have no fear that their own good faith is being attempted to be undermined by the snare of a well-arranged oration, they are even grateful to the orator for studying so much to gratify their ears. LXII.

Religion has preserved me from the snare, and religion will restore you to happiness.

In cunning rich and practised in deceit A web ensnaring let the stranger weave To snare the stranger's feet; between us twain Be truth!

We are dealing with the human willand thereby comes a snare for the feet of the would-be impartial prophet.

Fearful, however, that this new order might only be a snare laid for her by the Cardinal, and aware that although the troops had left the town they were still quartered in the environs, she affected to discredit the assurance of the Maréchal that thenceforth he exercised no control over her movements.

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