snare

• It looked like a snare, and yet who could suppose a snare in such a quiet by-street and in a house of so prosperous and even noble an exterior? —  The Short-story
• And yet--snare or no snare, intentionally or unintentionally--here he was, prettily trapped; and for the life of him he could see no way out of it again. —  The Short-story
• When smaller flies happen to fall into the snare, the spider does not sally out at once, but very patiently waits till it is sure of them; for upon his immediately approaching, the terror of his appearance might give the captive strength sufficient to get loose; the manner then is to wait patiently till by ineffectual and impotent struggles the captive has wasted all its strength, and then it becomes a certain and easy conquest The insect I am now describing lived three years; every year it changed its skin and got a new set of legs. —  The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. IV (of X)—Great Britain and Ireland II
• But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition. —  Usury A Scriptural, Ethical and Economic View
• Physical beauty of every sort was a snare, a Circean enchantment, to be valiantly contended with and straitly eschewed. —  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866

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