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
At his shoulder, tall, gaunt, angular, with lantern jaws and a mouth like a wolf trap, deep-set eyes that flamed under bushy eyebrows, stood Pierre de l'Hopital, the true master of Brittany.
From The Black Douglas by Richards, Frank
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 Connor, Ralph
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
