loophole-guns

Updated: June 7, 2025

Instincts may be far-reaching enough to defy the rivalry of human science, but they resemble loophole-guns, that can be fired only in a single direction. The intuition that guides the turkey-hen to her nest does not enable her to find her way out of a half-open log trap.

Various - Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885