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Hyatt hotels got food and supplies to their trappe ...
09/04/2005 2005
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And those in like order desired to speake with the Captaine and that when he came on land the trumpets might sound: but then the Ambassadour, whom they thought to be Captaine, would not goe, nor suffer the trumpets to be sounded, for that he thought it was a trappe to take himselfe, and more of his company.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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B. backstrop (de panneau de chalut) patte (de las puertas) pate de gallo bag, bunt poche, sac copo del arte bagnet filet trappe red de copo balt appt cebo battings (2) petit dos
Chapter 5 1983
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But I must _fermer ma trappe de pomme-de-terre, et promener mes crayons; ainsi, adieu, mon joli tromp_.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, December 11, 1841 Various
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Why doe I precipitate so fondlye into the snares of blynde and deceiptfull loue, and into the trappe of deceiptfull hope?
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter
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"I fear that this trappe, which wishes to pass humanity, may become a lunatic asylum," she says.
The Women of the French Salons Amelia Ruth Gere Mason
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In talking with the Chancellor he almost always opened the conversation by asking if I had yet killed a "trappe."
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The whole country is of trappe formation, and the black rocks rise up strictly vertical.
Diary in America, Series One Frederick Marryat 1820
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I found it of all colours, mixed with strata of grunstein, trappe, and porphyry schistus, the latter much decayed: at the summit of the ridge, red granite occurred again; its surface had been completely blackened by the sun's rays.
Travels in Arabia; comprehending an account of those territories in Hedjaz which the Mohammedans regard as sacred John Lewis Burckhardt 1800
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They are the best huntsmen of all America, and scorns to catch a castor in a trappe.
Voyages of Peter Esprit Radisson Pierre Esprit Radisson 1673
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