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

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 Cooper, James Fenimore

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 Harding, A. R. (Arthur Robert)

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 Kennedy, John Pendleton