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
But still it wasn't a broad, stark, daylight lie neither; it was only a civil fib, for I was going after my wolf trap before I got my breakfast.
From Horse-Shoe Robinson A Tale of the Tory Ascendency by John Pendleton Kennedy
He just 'glowers' at her, as old McTavish would say, with those deep eyes of his, and sets his jaw like a wolf trap, and waits.
From The Major by Ralph Connor
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
