Some trappers prefer to use a pronged iron drag and this is especially desirable when trapping for the more cunning animals such as the fox, coyote and wolf as the drag may be covered without leaving much sign.
When these traps are used, they should be fitted with a heavy chain of suitable length, and a pronged drag.
The three-pronged barbed spears were fastened in long light handles, and every other preparation was made for having a successful expedition.
The spear that he had selected, instead of being one of the three-pronged variety, was more of a chisel shape, and exceedingly sharp.
Two green mantles folded about them; two pins of bright silver on the mantles over their breasts; two five-pronged spears in their hands.
Here we see a four-pronged fork, Set to prove all Erin's men!
Swords they had with round hilts of gold and silvern fist-guards, [9]and shining shields upon them and five-pronged spears in their hands.
With a successful two-pronged attack--elements of the 1st Cavalry Division driving north along San Juanico Strait and units of the 24th Infantry Division pushing along Highway 2--the X Corps would arrive at Carigara Bay.
Reinforcements At the same time General Krueger was anxious to complete the third phase of the American campaign, the two-pronged drive toward the port of Ormoc.
If silver or wide-pronged forks are used, eat with the fork in the right hand--the knife is unnecessary.
Then stir up the ground with a trowel, or three-pronged fork, and in August they will be fit to transplant.
The Senator dropped his two-pronged fork, his jaw fell at the same time, and at least four seconds passed before he recovered his breath.
Pina, picking up a small leaf of lettuce on her two-pronged iron fork; for she ate delicately, and her fine manners were Cucurullo's despair.
The Three-pronged Osmia, when boring the bramble-stalk tunnel in which her cells are to be stacked, gives a warm reception to any Osmia that dares set foot upon her property.
There is just one thing that might possibly arouse a suspicion of the cause of this irregularity in the Three-pronged Osmia's laying.
To sum up: in the laying of the Three-pronged Osmia, no order governs the succession of the sexes; only, the series has a marked tendency to begin with females and to finish with males.
The Three-pronged Osmia already shows us that the problem is far from being solved.
One might also bring forward the case of the Three-pronged Osmia, who distributes the two sexes without any order in the hollow of her reed.
In the case of the Three-pronged Osmia, the male has about a week's start.
My studies will, by preference, bear upon the Three-pronged Osmia, who lends herself more readily to laboratory experiments, both because she is stronger and because the same stalk will contain a goodly number of her cells.
The first to hatch is the Seven-pronged Resin-bee (Anthidium septemdentatum).
The three-pronged end, of which only two remain, was welded to this covering.
Of interesting relics here unearthed, we may specifically mention a three-pronged thunderbolt of wood sheathed with gold.
With huge pronged poles they pitched hissing masses of blubber into the scalding pots, or stirred up the fires beneath, till the snaky flames darted, curling, out of the doors to catch them by the feet.
Should the Colonel see this, will he remember the Gent who asked him if he thought Publicoaler was a fine writer, and drove him from the Hotel with a four-pronged fork?
He acquired it at a country school, where they cultivated peas and only used two-pronged forks, and it was only by living on the Continent where the usage of the four-prong is general, that he lost the horrible custom.
I'm as sore as can be about losing my lovely six-pronged buck, and knocked over all by myself, too.
I'm just wild to get another chance to knock over a six-pronged buck; and now that I know the ropes, it's easy as falling off a log.
That deer belongs to me, and I'd just like to have it the worst kind, especially that head, with the six-pronged antlers on it.
But as yet they had not sighted that wonderful six-pronged buck which Step Hen was to lay low.
And Step Hen, if you bring home the bacon in the shape of a noble six-pronged buck, you must let me take your picture, with your foot on the prize.
And then Thad had the wonderful mushroomed bullet that had killed that six-pronged buck; so that as they narrated the first adventure that had come their way, they could produce evidence to back up the story.
But something just seems to tell me we'll never again have such a chance to get a six-pronged buck as that.
The two easy chairs have little tables beside them holding three-pronged silver candlesticks.
For the price of one of them you could buy a three pronged candlestick, equipped for electricity, for your dining-room table.
This plow prepares the ground admirably for the pronged hoe, and it may be used between rows of cuttings and seedlings.
In both the fruits fall out freely from the glume, and in the latter the awns are three-pronged and shorter than the grain.
Luckily I had picked up my fish and taken my three-pronged fork away.
Then I took a three-pronged fork firmly bound to a rod with cord, and a piece of canvas kerchief, with a lump of bread inside it; and so went into the pebbly water, trying to think how warm it was.
They carried sharp steel-pronged spears, and it was apparent that their intentions were not friendly.
A sharp, shrill, terrifying chirp went out, and the crickets rushed at them in a body, brandishing their sharp pronged spears.
Next instant she was awake to reality, for on a second cast the spoon, striking the wolf on the back, slid down to at last entangle the three-pronged hook in the tangled hair of his bushy tail.
The three-pronged hook of her trolling spoon was securely entangled in that bushy mat of hair.
The words were scarcely uttered before he likewise sprang away, hastily, as he beheld a pronged instrument thrust from the orifice in the body whence the bowels had been extracted!
Then the old man burned them on billets, and poured sparkling wine upon them; and near him the youths held five-pronged spits in their hands.
Juno also suffered, when the brave son of Amphitryon smote her in the right breast with a three-pronged shaft.
