The floor is rather rough, and has a trap door leading into a small cellar, where vegetables can be stored for winter use.
But I wasn't clever in this case, for it was hours later before I saw the trap which Dinky-Dunk had laid for me!
The mouse-trap was guiltless of bait, the spice-box empty as when it left the shop, but the matchbox felt strangely heavy.
Now, then, what say you to going farther out on the river, and making a snow trap for white foxes?
I've seen one of them sit down and look at me while I set a trap right before his eyes; and I had not got a hundred yards from the spot when a yell informed me that the gentleman's curiosity had led him to put his foot right into it.
Sometimes places of concealment were provided for the women and children beneath the floor, with a closely fitting trap door leading to it.
A strong steel trap was finally set near the calf pen, in a stout enclosure, and in a few days the trappers were delighted to hear a commotion in that quarter which indicated the success of their stratagem.
It will kill her to know that I died in this death-trap so near home, almost within hearing of her voice!
His wolfship, sure enough, had been caught by one of his hind legs, and was found to be furiously gnawing at the trap and the chain which held him.
A trap is laid for him by Mr. Longstaff, into which his mother lets him fall: with other matters highly essential to be told.
And if the Baldies could be led to believe that what they wanted was obtainable with just a little more effort, or the right tools--" "The trap could net bigger catch than just underlings!
A trap with good bait--" Ross wondered which one of the Foanna said that.
So, younger brother, you think that which was our home and our treasure box has now become a trap for the confounding of those who believe we are a threat to them?
Now all three were equipped with the water aid, and they could be gone in the sea before the trap closed.
That our plan for a trap there was spoiled was ill fortune.
The trap would have to be of Foanna setting; our part would come after it was sprung.
I showed the sergeant General Gage's order for one of the Bridewell prisoners to be delivered, and then told him that we were counting to set a trap for some rebels who were of importance.
Of course I had to explain that Master Lord wasn't quite in condition to venture out, and that I was helping him in setting a trap for the rebels.
VENUS' FLY TRAP A wax bubble moon trembles on the honey-blue horizon.
Had any one accused him of laying a trap for her, she would have treated the suggestion as too contemptible for notice.
She felt as if she were suddenly caught in a trap from which there could never be any escape.
You refuse to answer me merely because you know as well as I do that you are caught in a trap from which you are powerless to release yourself.
You should both be well on the lookout when wandering about, and ready to use your revolvers, for the apes have steel-trap jaws, and muscles nearly as strong.
The fox did not like much to get into a basket, that had taken his lady-love to be boiled, but the most cautious grow rash when money's to be gained: and avarice can trap even a fox.
Mr. Fox, there's no trap for an honest dog, that has not two doors to it, smart as you think yourself.
So the casting-net was called into requisition, and a trap was constructed, and set in Bell's back yard, which was close to a dyke leading to the broad.
These have proved a fatal trapto numbers of insects.
The trap descended upon three hens, half-a-dozen sparrows, and the water-hen.
If you could lay some sort of a trap for them like a riddle-trap for sparrows it would be an easy matter to entice one into it.
Then he makes thereby a seat, himself sits alone and watches whether histrap takes effect.
But how can our putting our heads into the trap at Castle Hohenwald aid you, Count?
If that was a bogus message, and will coax the Germans to make an attack at a certain place where a trap has been laid, that's their lookout.
The truth is, our country was caught in the trap in 1792.
One of the objects of these upright boards is to act as a cover for us, as well as to form a trap for our guests.
I'll laugh myself nearly sick every time I think of this dandy trap of yours.
You see I could be hidden in that room and a trap set, you sending him word to call for a package you wished him to deliver.
In order to avoid sudden changes of temperature and strong draughts, fires, trap doors, and other means employed in assisting the ventilation of coal mines are adopted.
I have tried these lamp traps season after season, and never knew of their doing any good; that is, the maggots seemed just as numerous in the lamp-trapped cellar as in the other cellar in which no lamp trap had been used.
This blaze I have often seen used by trappers to mark the whereabouts of their trap or cache.
They have a fine wire drainer so that nothing solid will go into the trap and plug the pipes.
So he made a stone axe, and with that was able to cut out branches of trees so that he could make a trap in which he eventually caught a bear and killed it.
The Peruvian fell into the trap at once, and came down upon us in fine style, throwing a shot ahead of the Essex when he was about a mile away.
Captain Lawrence must be away, and we shall have to trap the scoundrels ourselves.
Then she had had some breakfast, and had taken a midday train to Whinborough, and a trap to Long Whindale.
He had mounted a pair of steps, and put a lot of lumber through a trap at the head of the stairs into the loft.
Supposing that she was in the habit of surreptitiously visiting the house, and had found a key to fit one of the doors, or supposing that she could push up a window,--she would doubtless mount the stairs and trap him!
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Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words: trap door; trap rock
