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He dreamily emptied and refilled his glass. "By Jove, dear old boy" Percy fixed his eye-glass and gazed admiringly at the speaker "that's a splendid idea! Sort of glorified man-trap what! dear old thing." "That's it, Percy, old lad. Why don't you make one next time you're in the trenches?" The speaker winked at the remainder of the party. "'Pon my soul, dear old man, I think I will."
"To tell the truth, I didn't bother to give the Detective Agency the description of that fellow, although you gave it to me," and Tom laughed. "I must confess that I depend more upon my man-trap electric wires to protect the invention than I do on the private inquiry agent." "It's funny, just the same. If I had another job for a detective I should not submit it to the Blatz Agency," grumbled Ned.
"I wish to heaven you had been caught in a man-trap and had all your limbs broken, you you you Oh!" ejaculated Old Hurricane, turning short and trotting up and down the room. Presently he stopped before Capitola and rapping his cane upon the floor, demanded: "Who did you see at that accursed place, you you infatuated maniac?" "Miss Day, Mr. Le Noir, Mrs.
One of the ricketty houses on the south side of the street, not far from the Ellen Jewett house, and not much further from the equally celebrated panel-house which furnished the weekly papers with illustrations of that peculiar species of man-trap a few years ago seemed to the seeker to bear out the description that had been given him.
"She's innocent as a kitten," observed Mrs. Day impartially. "Oh, yes, she's innocent enough an' I hope she'll keep so! Waitstill's a sight han'somer, if the truth was told; but she's the sort of girl that's made for one man and the rest of em never look at her. The other one's cut out for the crowd, the more the merrier. She's a kind of man-trap, that girl is!
"Yus," he remarked at length, "I can, sir, if 'e keeps quite still. But I won't be answerable for the consequences if 'e don't." "No more will I." The Brigade-Major mopped his brow. "For heaven's sake get on with it." Thus ended the episode of Percy FitzPercy his man-trap.
During the operation he exhibited something of his savoir faire, by opening his mouth, that looked like a gigantic man-trap, and suddenly shutting it with a loud snap, which made us shudder, and forcibly recalled to mind the escape I had had a few days before, from having my body embraced by such a pair of jaws.
"man-traps and spring-guns!" In America I had never heard of the like. What could it mean? They were not surely cannibals, that dwelt down in that beautiful little dale, and lived by catching men, like weasels and beavers in Canada! "A man-trap!" It must be so.
It was about three feet in length and half as wide. Tim contemplated it as well as he could in the dying light of day, and raked off the cobwebs with his hand. "That will spoil his pretty shins for'n, I reckon!" he said. It was a man-trap.
Grady turned to go down as he had come up, by the ladders, but Bannon caught him by the shoulder, saying with a laugh: "Oh, don't waste your time walking. Take the elevator." His tone was friendly but his grip was like a man-trap, and he was propelling Grady straight toward the edge of the building. Four big timbers had just come up and Bannon caught the released rope as it came trailing by.
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