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Jury and Fiona marveled at the pure idiocy of the sardine box-trap.

The Old Silent Grimes, Martha 1973

The tiger is killed usually by capturing him in a sort of box-trap, and then the trap is taken to the nearest stream, where it is submerged and the animal drowned, to avoid injury to the skin, which brings a good price.

Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania Jewett Castello Gilson

He brought out of a corner of the attic an old box-trap he had used in the summer to catch birds and small animals, set it carefully on the snow, and scattered crumbs of corn-bread to attract the birds.

The Children's Book of Christmas Stories Asa Don Dickinson 1918

It was a box-trap, with a drop at the end, too great for any beast, a narrow slide of weathered stone running down, and the rim wall trail.

The Last of the Plainsmen Zane Grey 1905

So they made a ketchalive, or box-trap, two feet long, using hay wire to make a strong netting at one end.

Two Little Savages Being the adventures of two boys who lived as Indians and what they learned Ernest Thompson Seton 1903

Stale meat-offal and other infallible lures were put out till Pussy, urged by the reestablished hunger-pinch, crept up to a large fish-head in a box-trap; the negro, in watching, pulled the string that dropped the lid, and, a minute later, the Analostan was once more among the prisoners in the cellar.

Animal Heroes Ernest Thompson Seton 1903

The animal having been caught in a box-trap, and not maimed or crippled in any way, was first muzzled, and then let loose for a race for its life over the prairies, with hounds and hunters in full pursuit.

'Three Score Years and Ten' Life-Long Memories of Fort Snelling, Minnesota, and Other Parts of the West Charlotte Ouisconsin Clark Van Cleve 1863

Gray's Lectures before he can be trusted to make a box-trap?

Medical Essays, 1842-1882 Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851

Cannot a man work in wood without knowing all about endogens and exogens, or must he attend Professor Gray's Lectures before he can be trusted to make a box-trap?

Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851

It is said the Chinese catch the tiger in a box-trap, which they bait simply with a looking-glass.

The Plant Hunters Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains Mayne Reid 1850