Trapping

Examples

• It became a question whether he had fallen among the unrecognized; but no broken ornament or stained trapping betrayed his fate. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• It's what I should expect, when a fellow like Trapping Bass is let off so easily. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The boy's eyes had lighted with pleasure as I spoke, and I saw him glance from his rusty trappings to the magnificence of my own. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• In the guard-room of my palace are many fine trappings. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Unseen we reached a rear window and with the straps and leather of my trappings I lowered, first Sola and then Dejah Thoris to the ground below. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• Relieving him of his trappings, which I flung down beside him, we left the poor fellow to his fate, and pushed on with the one thoat as best we could. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• The officers were conspicuous through the wondrous magnificence of their resplendent trappings. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• The next evening Eustacia stood punctually at the fuelhouse door, waiting for the dusk which was to bring Charley with the trappings. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• And I had also noticed that his shabby trappings but illy comported with his dignified and noble bearing. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Cowards and slaves wear no trappings. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Confusion to her goblin trappings! Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Here the horrid creature squatted, surrounded by a hundred slave maidens sparkling in jewelled trappings. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• She threw off her trappings in the outhouse, rolled them up, and went indoors to her chamber. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Not a muscle twitched, nor a tremor shook his giant frame as a soldier of the guard roughly stripped his gorgeous trappings from him. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Donning my trappings and weapons I hastened to the sheds, and soon had out both my machine and Kantos Kan's. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• Yet could England indeed doff her lordly trappings, and be content with the democratic style of America? Mary Shelley. The Last Man.

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