We set up several man-traps in the premises. From LearnThat.org.
Why mankind has chosen to call marriage a man-trap. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
They're together, just as sure as hell's a man-trap, and that's what matters. From Wordnik.com. [Gray Lensman]
One of them will spear us with a tractor, just as sure as hell's a man-trap ... .. '. From Wordnik.com. [Galactic Patrol]
Oakland, she reflected -- Oakland, the man-trap, that poisoned those it could not starve. From Wordnik.com. [CHAPTER XVIII] Reference
“Well, I guess I know enough to turn you inside out, you sockdologising old man-trap.”. From Wordnik.com. [The missing booms: the best laid schemes o’ government an’ men…] Reference
In how different a light the people came to regard the petty man-trap of power, we shall presently see. From Wordnik.com. [The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore] Reference
He laughed heartily at the comical element connected with Colon's man-trap; but took the other part seriously. From Wordnik.com. [Fred Fenton on the Crew or, The Young Oarsmen of Riverport School] Reference
Brown fared unexpectedly well today but walked from the chamber and straight into a new man-trap set by his own side. From Wordnik.com. [Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?] Reference
He used to say he'd set a man-trap in that hole in the hedge! didn't know he'd found that hole, we used to cover it up each time. From Wordnik.com. [When the Lion Feeds]
"I must confess that I depend more upon my man-trap electric wires to protect the invention than I do on the private inquiry agent.". From Wordnik.com. [Tom Swift and His Electric Locomotive, or, Two Miles a Minute on the Rails] Reference
It is where Jukes is describing the man-trap of the. From Wordnik.com. [Blix] Reference
Thus ended the episode of Percy FitzPercy -- his man-trap. From Wordnik.com. [No Man's Land] Reference
"'Ware man-trap!" he called back to Dyán, under his breath. From Wordnik.com. [Far to Seek A Romance of England and India] Reference
The man-trap which he had set would not now fail through Dea's obstinacy. From Wordnik.com. ["Unto Caesar"] Reference
All the city would shortly be one enormous man-trap, set to catch Bron Hoddan. From Wordnik.com. [The Pirates of Ersatz] Reference
Old Fulcher had not got far into the car before he put his foot into a man-trap. From Wordnik.com. [The Romany Rye] Reference
You might both have got ten years for fixing a man-trap, to wit, a lethal engine. From Wordnik.com. [Number Seventeen] Reference
'You don't mean that you fell into a man-trap!' exclaimed Mrs. Mansell, in horror. From Wordnik.com. [Dynevor Terrace: or, the clue of life — Volume 1] Reference
My dear boy, you heard what the farmer said about the man-trap at the foot of the tree. From Wordnik.com. [The Third Reader, Designed for the Use of Primary Schools,] Reference
I stood in front of this man's man-trap and cried out against this outrageous business. From Wordnik.com. [The Use and Need of the Life of Carry A. Nation] Reference
They explored the precincts of the village, and in a short time lighted upon the man-trap. From Wordnik.com. [The Woodlanders] Reference
"In want of money!" pushing back his chair as from a suddenly-disclosed man-trap or crater. From Wordnik.com. [The Confidence-Man] Reference
I hope you will not think my suggestion -- it is not a question -- captious and a man-trap. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Volume 2] Reference
Underneath this apparent man-trap, with a lively sense of insecurity I attempted to preach. From Wordnik.com. [Fifty Years in the Gospel Ministry from 1864 to 1914. Twenty-seven Years in the Pastorate; Sixteen Years' Active Service as Chaplain in the U. S. Army; Seven Years Professor in Wilberforce University; Two Trips to Europe; A Trip in Mexico.] Reference
But he travelled here, and I was nearly caught in a man-trap, and that's how it is I am here. From Wordnik.com. [The Woodlanders] Reference
So, I'll just have to return that man-trap I bought from Almibry, and go find a hot politician. From Wordnik.com. [current.com top stories] Reference
There's a hurdle-path that's given way in places and the hurdles have sunk into holes, and it's a man-trap. From Wordnik.com. [Under Fire: the story of a squad] Reference
Never did nature keep her secret better than in the setting out of this one road across her woeful man-trap. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the Foss River Ranch] Reference
Commandingly he repeated them to cabby peeping down through his pygmy man-trap in the roof, and away went the two-wheeler. From Wordnik.com. [A Tame Surrender, A Story of The Chicago Strike] Reference
I was going on to add that I had expected to find Raffles there before me, to settle a wager that we had made about the man-trap. From Wordnik.com. [A Thief in the Night: a Book of Raffles' Adventures] Reference
Chesterton seized the opportunity, being mildly rebuked by a Socialist paper, to declare that the Fabians "are constructing a man-trap.". From Wordnik.com. [G. K. Chesterton, A Critical Study] Reference
Women see through us at times as if we were glass, and then again are caught by a man-trap that one would think must be perfectly visible. From Wordnik.com. [Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker] Reference
'We've cotched a pig-headed counter-jumper here, that didn't know Jim there from a man-trap, and went by him as if he'd been a bull-dog on. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Falconer] Reference
You are a pretty fellow, Wellingborough, thought I to myself; you are a mighty traveler, indeed: -- stopped on your travels by a man-trap!. From Wordnik.com. [Redburn. His First Voyage] Reference
A man-trap may be under his ruddy-tipped daisies. ". From Wordnik.com. [Billy Budd] Reference
I reckon I had best pull myself out of this man-trap first. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Land Boomer Dick Arbuckle's Adventures in Oklahoma] Reference
A man-trap and a handcuff, the parish stocks and a leg-lock, all in gold and all in one. From Wordnik.com. [Doctor Marigold] Reference
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