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 Kennedy, John Pendleton

The best anchor for a wolf trap is a stone drag of 30 or 40 pounds weight, to which the trap is securely wired.

From Science of Trapping Describes the Fur Bearing Animals, Their Nature, Habits And Distribution, With Practical Methods For Their Capture by Kreps, Elmer Harry

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