845 examples of snares in sentences

A woman in her beauty is a fair thing to the eyes of a man, yet I tell thee Beltane, they be snares of the devil, setting father 'gainst son andbrother 'gainst brother, whereby come unnatural murders and bloody wars.

At last, being disgusted by the preferments of a younger officer, I resolved to close my life in peace, having found the world full of snares, discord, and misery.

For this purpose, I made snares to hamper them; and I do believe they were more than once taken in them; but my tackle was not good, for I had no wire, and I always found them broken, and my bait devoured.

So he bade the servants of his house to devise fillets and snares, and to set their cunning traps about the orchard.

She railed on those who with nets and snares had betrayed the nightingale to his death; for anger and hate beyond measure had gained hold on her heart.

"You are going the wrong way," the witch called through the window; and indeed I had no sooner gone back to the ivory palace again, but I had no right to trespass any further on the hospitality of Singanee and one cannot stay always in the Lands of Dream, and what knowledge had that old witch of the call of the fields we know or the little though many snares that bind our feet therein?

Who knows? He manufactures snares, traps; but suspicion is now the order of the day around him; each holds himself on the qui vive.

After long waiting without any result, he finds in his snares a coati, some little Guinea pigs; here is one resource, undoubtedly, but he aims at higher game, and the kids will not allow themselves to be taken by his baits.

But the sea had taken his snares along with the rest.

Perhaps after all we shall find it easier and quicker to catch and tame the herd, than to set snares and pitfalls for individual ones and twos.

"We were the first ones to fall into the snares set by the Chinks.

And yet her deep red lips trembled, as it were on the very border of a smile, as if they were hinting against their will of a mine of laughter and subtle snares that they were not allowed to use.

"Perhaps," says Sully, with a calm sententiousness better suited to some question of finance, "the Queen had only herself to blame for not having released him from the snares of her rival, and detached him from every other affair of gallantry, as he appeared to me perfectly sincere when he urged me to induce her to conform to his tastes and to the character of his mind.

In those days the people used to make holes in the pis'kun walls and set snares, and when wolves and other animals came to steal meat, they were caught by the neck.

He went on and sprung all the snares; then he went back and called the wolves and others,the coyotes, badgers, and foxes,and they all went in the pis'kun and feasted, and took meat to carry home.

I think I know what joy in God means, though perhaps I only begin to know; but I am a weak creature; I fall into snares and get entanglednot nearly so often as I used to do, but still do get into them.

This both by others and myself I know, 380 For I have served their sovereign long ago; Oft have been caught within the winding train Of female snares, and felt the lover's pain, And learn'd how far the god can human hearts constrain.

But long the course by which I learned the way, And bitter all the wanderings, where sin Had laid its snares, and sought to curse my soul.

Sir knight, if it were once a cruel thing That drove thee wandering in the evil world, And if it ever were a curse to strive In subtle snares and temptings manifold, Believe me, now the spell is surely broken.

And they were snares of baneful witchery.

How absurd to imagine that the fore-foot of a poor dead rabbit, with which he timorously felt his way along through a life surrounded by snares and pitfalls, beset by enemies on every hand, can promote happiness or success, or ward off failure or misfortune!" "It is ridiculous," assented my wife, with faint interest.

He had not done that foul and horrible deed, The virtuous had retain'd their influence o'er him: He had not fallen into the snares of villains.

"Upon the wicked the Lord shall rain fire, and snares, and a horrible tempest; this shall be the portion of their cup."

"To me, a child of many prayers, Life had quicksands, and many snares, Foes, and tempters came unawares.

I remember his coming to me once in tearful but very angry mood, because, as he said, I had guilefully spread snares for his soul!

845 examples of  snares  in sentences