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  • the most usual being like a large rat-trap, the steel springs being armed with teeth which met in the victim’s leg. Since 1827 they have been illegal in...
    270 bytes (70 words) - 12:23, 17 September 2017
  • (1927) The Desert Trap by Gilbert Patten 4338621Top-Notch Magazine, Volume 72, Number 3 — The Desert Trap1927Gilbert Patten   The Desert Trap By Burt L. Standish...
    131 KB (23,149 words) - 19:48, 7 November 2023
  • Photo-trapping: Purple Herons and Spoonbills (1901) by Reginald Badham Lodge 3854399Photo-trapping: Purple Herons and Spoonbills1901Reginald Badham Lodge...
    692 bytes (1,222 words) - 13:56, 27 December 2021
  • by William Hope Hodgson Chapter XIII: The Trap In The Great Cellar 144096The House on the Borderland — Chapter XIII: The Trap In The Great CellarWilliam Hope Hodgson...
    8 KB (1,583 words) - 13:07, 27 November 2022
  • become regular trap-door makers. The commoner and smaller of these two trap-door Lycosæ is a very alert, often ruddy, spider with banded legs. It makes a...
    632 bytes (9,138 words) - 11:50, 27 September 2018
  • Daddy-Long-Legs (Webster) by Jean Webster 362706Daddy-Long-Legs (Webster)Jean Webster ​ Lock Willow, April 4th. Dear Daddy, Do you observe the postmark...
    265 bytes (529 words) - 16:58, 20 June 2024
  • he does," said Little Joe Otter. "I know he does. He has set traps for us." "What are traps?" asked one of the young Otters. "They are terrible things with...
    257 bytes (587 words) - 22:35, 31 January 2021
  • The Fox who Knew all about Traps. by Dane Coolidge 4082294St. Nicholas, Volume 32, Number 2 — The Fox who Knew all about Traps.Mary Mapes DodgeDane Coolidge...
    486 bytes (2,684 words) - 20:55, 7 November 2022
  • The Elf-Trap (1919) by Francis Stevens 2896947The Elf-Trap1919Francis Stevens In this our well-advertised, modern world, crammed with engines, death-dealing...
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  • by Thomas Sigismund Stribling Trapped 1712491The Cruise of the Dry Dock — TrappedThomas Sigismund Stribling ​ CHAPTER VII TRAPPED There was something so sinister...
    295 bytes (1,883 words) - 21:09, 30 September 2014
  • to get this meat, he would tread on the trap, and the teeth would spring together, and catch him by the leg. They always fought to get free. I once saw...
    308 bytes (2,708 words) - 15:12, 30 April 2017
  • his black eyes gleam, as a butterfly Lurches—is caught—in the fine-spun trap. III. The village street-lights do their best,  As the storm's lashed rushes...
    297 bytes (251 words) - 17:19, 27 February 2024
  • above mentioned. The rear portion of Herkimer’s troops escaped from the trap, but were pursued by the Indians, and many of them were overtaken and killed...
    359 bytes (429 words) - 12:12, 9 July 2024
  • Hunting and Trapping Stories; a Book for Boys (1903) by J. P. Hyde Price Stories of Giraffes 4192775Hunting and Trapping Stories; a Book for Boys — Stories...
    583 bytes (1,056 words) - 00:10, 16 April 2023
  • bang! and Renard was fast in a trap, caught by the leg. He tried dragging, pulling, and shaking it all in vain; the trap clung to his flesh with its iron...
    409 bytes (1,916 words) - 20:05, 18 August 2021
  • the traps. water, are the traps, minute hollow globular structures bristling with hairs at one end. Buried among the hairs is the entrance to the trap. Swimming...
    682 bytes (4,852 words) - 04:29, 3 August 2019
  • The Trap (1932) H. P. Lovecraft and Henry S. Whitehead 739751The TrapH. P. Lovecraft and Henry S. Whitehead The Trap IT was on a certain Thursday morning...
    49 KB (8,823 words) - 01:45, 11 October 2022
  • himself Tom Redding, he had been twice deceived. Conklin, in claiming the trapping territory for his own had insured the peace of the woman, Pretty Shells...
    18 KB (3,234 words) - 17:29, 14 August 2022
  • crossing the hated trails and sniffing the victims skinned at almost every trap. If they found dead meat, they circled around it, and tore it to pieces before...
    9 KB (1,758 words) - 12:46, 24 March 2019
  • kind of traps were they, father?" asked Mr. Harry. "Cruel ones—steel ones. They'd catch an animal by the leg and sometimes break the bone. The leg would...
    307 bytes (2,874 words) - 15:12, 30 April 2017
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