wolf trap
Example Sentences
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Schriever said Thursday that no grizzlies have so far been caught in a wolf trap.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 6, 2022
His purchases: one wolf trap; one wolfhound; two accordions; one well-preserved Egyptian mummy; one plaster bust of Julius Caesar; five tombstones; 100 quarts of bug poison.
From Time Magazine Archive
If it comes together with the bang of a wolf trap and will pinch a hair, so much the better.
From Deadfalls and Snares A Book of Instruction for Trappers About These and Other Home-Made Traps by A. R. (Arthur Robert) Harding
Hearken to the tick of this lock-a wolf trap has'n't a livelier spring; pan and cock speak together, like two singing masters undertaking a psalm in meetin'.
From The Deerslayer by James Fenimore Cooper
At his shoulder, tall, gaunt, angular, with lantern jaws and a mouth like a wolf trap, deep-set eyes that flamed under bushy eyebrows, stood Pierre de l'Hopital, the true master of Brittany.
From The Black Douglas by Frank Richards
