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Why, if he ain't snared, Sam; he is properly wired I declare I vow this is some o' your doin's, Sam well it was a clever scheme too, but a little grain too dangerous, I guess. 'Don't stand staring and jawin' there all night, said Jim, 'cut me down, I tell you or cut my throat and be damned to you, for I am chokin' with blood. 'Roll over that 'ere hogshead, old Snow, said I, 'till I get atop on it and cut him down. So I soon released him, but he couldn't walk a bit.
See how selfish men are, and bad-hearted into the bargain. I believe that young fellow had been to a doctor, and found out he was booked in spite of his mahogany cheeks; so then he rides out here and wheedles an unguarded friend I'm wired I'm trapped I'm snared." Lucy set herself to soothe her injured relative. "You must say to yourself, 'C'est un petit matheur." "Tell myself a falsehood?
"Has yonder fox snared both of us?" and he nodded at Saladin. "Let the fox speak," said the Sultan with a smile. "Know, Sir Wulf, that your brother was about to die in your place, and of his own wish.
"Are there trout in your lake, sir?" "The lake! You must not dream of invading that sacred water. The inhabitants of rivulets and brooks not within my boundary are beyond the pale of Fawley civilization, to be snared and slaughtered like Caifres, red men, or any other savages, for whom we bait with a missionary and whom we impale on a bayonet.
The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire: thou shalt not desire the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it unto thee, lest thou be snared therin: for it is an abomination to the LORD thy God. Neither shalt thou bring an abomination into thine house, lest thou be a cursed thing like it: but thou shalt utterly detest it, and thou shalt utterly abhor it; for it is a cursed thing.
Should it happen that the last egret is shot and the last bird of paradise is snared to adorn a lady's dress, then then I would not like to be a woman for all that earth could hold. Herbert O. Ward. When at last my covering was removed I found myself in a large, long room, which I afterward learned was a millinery store.
Whose work is it we lie here, snared by these clowns of fisherfolk? Who led us wrong and betrayed us? He die? Would the devil had taken him a year ago! Would he were within my reach now! I would kill him with my bare fingers! He die? And why not?" "Why, because, fool, his death would not save me!" Count Hannibal answered coolly. "If it would, he would die!
I say, don't you tell; I've snared plenty of the governor's hares in that wood." He got to the edge of the wood and ran down the side. At last he found the marks of small feet on a low bank, and, darting over it, discovered the fainter traces on some decaying leaves inside the wood.
I gave her my address in town. I told her Arthur's here would reach me. But not a word, my dear boy. That woman had the soul of truth in voice and look, or I never read Eve's face yet." "Ha! ha!" Bertram laughed. "I wish I had not got beyond the risk of being snared by the un-gloving of a hand. You only pass through, I live in Paris."
Her bitter gathering of the knowledge of life had sharpened her intellect; and the intellect, even in the young, is, and not less usefully, hard metal rather than fallow soil. But for the fountain of human warmth at her breast, she might have been snared by the conceit of intellect, to despise the simple and conventional, or shed the pity which is charity's contempt.
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