Snares
[sneəz]
Examples
- You made your own snares. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Unlike most other spiders, it hunts its game without the aid of webs or snares. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- A wild boar, that falls into our snares, is deemed to be in our possession, if it be impossible for him to escape. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- What snares are round her! Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- He would have many of the larger birds and smaller mammals, which he could easily secure by throwing stones and sticks, or by setting simple snares. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- In short, Fagin, he says, Jew as you are, you never laid such snares as I'll contrive for my young brother, Oliver. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
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