I had also to remind myself that I in my turn had prepared a trap for the apparition.

XIII THE TRAP IN THE GREAT CELLAR I suppose I must have swooned; for, the next thing I remember, I opened my eyes, and all was dusk.

"You would be surprised," said he, "to find how successful they have been in investing their craft with the forms and trappings of science, the parade of classification, and the mystery imparted by technical terms.

I found them at the place above the beaver traps of the Ooniche.

The hospital people believed that he had been driving alone, and that I had been in the trap with Henshaw.

I stood, of course, in a hideously false position, and that he very soon began to divine; he would not hear of my getting a fly at that hour of the night, but insisted on driving me in his trap to wherever I wished to go.

There is one trap into which a padre falls when marching with a regiment.

Trapping on Prairie Dog CreekAn Accident whereby we Lose one of our OxenI Fall and Break my LegLeft Alone in CampUnwelcome VisitorsA Party of Hostile Sioux Call upon me and Make Themselves at HomeOld Rain-in-the-Face Saves my LifeSnow-Bound-A Dreary ImprisonmentReturn of

When all was ready, they loaded the mules, went to the monster's city, set the trap at the southern gate, and at the northern they placed the sulphur, which they set on fire, and then fled.

In the first place he prepared everything, set the catch to prevent the trap from being sent up again in his absence, and also assured himself that the balustrade door opened and closed easily.

A criminal on the scaffold, with the noose around his neck, the trap about to be sprung, and receiving a pardon just at the last moment, thus giving him a new lease of life, could not have been more grateful than I was at that time.

LACY To have been trapped like moles!

"I wondered that a strong-minded man like Dr. Whewell could tolerate such trappings for a moment; but it is said that he is rather proud of them, and loves all the etiquette of the olden time, as also, it is said, does the queen.

There was a social gathering at a large, elegantly finished and furnished hall, splendidly illuminated with its brilliant gas lights, diffusing a lustre upon gorgeous trappings with which they were surmounted.

"Counsel for the prosecution will make the most of those admissions in the course of his address to you, but the point to which I wish to direct your attention is that we make this damaging admission so that you may decide between the prisoner and the man who led him into a trap by instigating the burglary.

This hill has an altitude of 1,688 feet above the sea, and is formed by the eruption of a coarse dark-coloured crystalline trap through a base of amorphous sandstone, the direction of the range of which it forms a part being nearly north and south.

I broke into a laugh, from which neither my politeness nor the woman's heightened color could save me, bought the cat and ordered the rat-trap without delay.

It is seldom that a revelation of the inner life of Princes would raise the mind to a higher region than beforealthough we all know that they have an inner and a real life through the tinsels and the trappings in which we see them.

At last, however, one day, when Rollo was playing in the yard, he saw Jonas coming up out of the woods with the trap under his arm.

"And so, Thursday come, an' we did get a trap off Mr. Sharpe, an' we set off.

In the morning, Cancut should, with an ox-cart, bring Birch and our traps over the three miles of the carry.

Known chiefly for the palomières or pigeon traps among the trees above it.

He told me about the antelope that raced across the ranch before I was up; of the elk, deer, bear, and buffalo he had shot in his day; and of beaver, otter, and other animals that he had trapped along the rivers.

Cameron set his traps towards evening in a circle with a bait in the centre, and then retired to rest.

Cellars may give protection from fire or melinite; but they are worse than death traps against the heavy fumes of poisonous gas.