Which preposition to use with traps
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.
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!
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.
"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.
In the morning, Cancut should, with an ox-cart, bring Birch and our traps over the three miles of the carry.
"And so, Thursday come, an' we did get a trap off Mr. Sharpe, an' we set off.
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.
Known chiefly for the palomières or pigeon traps among the trees above it.
A more hideous trap than that old gig could not be imagined, but she had planned a drive in it with Ralph on some of the quiet country roads beyond Cobhurst.
I got on a waggonette and tried to persuade the driver to pull his trap across one of the roads, and to get others in line, so as to break the charges of the mounted police; but he was afraid, and drove away to the Embankment, so I jumped out and went back to the Square.
Cameron set his traps towards evening in a circle with a bait in the centre, and then retired to rest.
Mitchell opened the trap above his head and called up to the driver: "Hey, Cabbie!
The retreat became a rout before evening of that day, the Italians pursuing and capturing over 50,000 men and cannon, and cutting off some 200,000 Austrians in a trap between the Brenta and Piave rivers.
LAYING PLANS TO HELP OBED X. TRAPS FOR NIGHT PROWLERS XI.
She pulled a catch which caused the seat to drop, and at the same time the trap beneath her, including the prepared newspaper, was opened by an attendant.