potato-trap

"Shut your potato-trap, Alice - I want to hear about John Brown, and how he freed all the ... the negro slaves in America, didn't he, Great-grandpapa?"

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"Shut your potato-trap, Alice - I want to hear about John Brown, and how he freed all the … the negro slaves in America, didn't he, Great-grandpapa?"

Flashman and the angel of the lord Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1995

"Shut your potato-trap, Alice - I want to hear about John Brown, and how he freed all the ... the negro slaves in America, didn't he, Great-grandpapa?"

Flashman and the angel of the lord Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1995

"Hi, lad!" cried Tom Anderly, when I looked over the rail, "now you've got a taste of real whaler's souse -- everything you put in your potato-trap for the rest of the v'y'ge will be flavored with whale-oil."

Swept Out to Sea Clint Webb Among the Whalers W. Bertram Foster

The boy squealed, turned, clawing and kicking, on Tinker, and, in ten seconds of crowded life, had learned the true significance of those cryptic terms an upper-cut on the potato-trap, a hook on the jaw, a rattler on the conk, and a buster on the mark.

The Admirable Tinker Child of the World Edgar Jepson 1900

There's no corporal here now, but a hard-fisted fellow who is tired of listening to your jaw, and he'll see if he can't make you keep your potato-trap shut.

The Downfall ��mile Zola 1871

He seemed to aim at my face, and every few minutes I received what the prize ring would call 'plumpers in the peeper, and sockdolagers on the potato-trap.'

Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life Thomas Wallace Knox 1865

First, then, keep that potato-trap of yours shut, except when you want to catch potatoes in it; and your eyes and ears open on all occasions.

Salt Water The Sea Life and Adventures of Neil D'Arcy the Midshipman William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

"Quemar!" muttered Johnson, as if he were terrified at something; "his potato-trap is swallerin 'ghosts!

The Entailed Hat Or, Patty Cannon's Times George Alfred Townsend 1877

Likewise shut your potato-trap, and let me go on wi 'my story, which is, (he looked impressively round, while every eye gazed, and ear listened, and mouth opened in breathless attention), the Adventure of Robinson Crusoe an' his man Friday! "

The Lonely Island The Refuge of the Mutineers 1859