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  • "Traps," once more repeated the frightened ruffian, and a dozen voices demanded where they were, while three or four men opened the shutters of the windows to see if the building was attacked on the outside.

    The Gold Hunters' Adventures Or, Life in Australia William Henry Thomes 1859

  • We knew that the single word "Traps" would cause them to swarm around us like hornets, and that many blows would have to be struck before we could make our way to the street and escape with our prisoner, whom we were desirous of holding on to at every hazard.

    The Gold Hunters' Adventures Or, Life in Australia William Henry Thomes 1859

  • 'Traps' included furniture, and books, and horses, and horse-gear: details which at first he had hoped his friend

    Lord Kilgobbin Charles James Lever 1839

  • Also, the hooks need replacing or sharpening right out of the box (on the standard "Traps").

    ESPN.com Richie White 2010

  • I will give the 'Traps' a hint not to molest him unless he betakes himself to roguery again, and I suppose that he will some day. "

    The Gold Hunters' Adventures Or, Life in Australia William Henry Thomes 1859

  • The current exhibit, "Light Traps and Aerial Perspectives," by L.A. artist Laddie John Dill features powerful and abstract work, simultaneously direct and complex, viscerally engages the viewer and explores the interaction of light, movement and color.

    Laddie John Dill's 'Light Traps and Aerial Perspectives' at The Archer School For Girls Gallery Sophia Moreno-Bunge 2010

  • China Explosion in Coal Mine Kills 4 and Traps 57 A sudden explosion of rock in a coal mine in central China following a small earthquake killed four miners and trapped 57 others, the state-run Xinhua news agency said.

    World Watch 2011

  • The author at Catallarchy. net in a related article titled Arnold Kling on Liquidity Traps writes:

    Liquidity Trap, II, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • ECUADOR Mine Cave-In Traps Four A cave-in at a small Ecuadorean gold mine trapped at least four workers on Friday and it was unclear if they were alive, authorities said.

    WORLD WATCH 2010

  • The $70 Strube's Stink Bug Traps, made by a Pennsylvania man named Andrew Strube whose website says he has been "tinkering around with flying objects" his whole life, claims to catch the bugs indoors with a hanging lantern covered in a removable sleeve.

    Out of Odor: Offensive-Smelling Bugs Put U.S. Farmers on the Defensive Heather Haddon 2012

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