Jury and Fiona marveled at the pure idiocy of the sardine box-trap. ❋ Grimes, Martha (1973)
The tiger is killed usually by capturing him in a sort of box-trap, and then the trap is taken to the nearest stream, where it is submerged and the animal drowned, to avoid injury to the skin, which brings a good price. ❋ Jewett Castello Gilson (N/A)
He brought out of a corner of the attic an old box-trap he had used in the summer to catch birds and small animals, set it carefully on the snow, and scattered crumbs of corn-bread to attract the birds. ❋ Asa Don Dickinson (1918)
It was a box-trap, with a drop at the end, too great for any beast, a narrow slide of weathered stone running down, and the rim wall trail. ❋ Zane Grey (1905)
So they made a ketchalive, or box-trap, two feet long, using hay wire to make a strong netting at one end. ❋ Ernest Thompson Seton (1903)
Stale meat-offal and other infallible lures were put out till Pussy, urged by the reestablished hunger-pinch, crept up to a large fish-head in a box-trap; the negro, in watching, pulled the string that dropped the lid, and, a minute later, the Analostan was once more among the prisoners in the cellar. ❋ Ernest Thompson Seton (1903)
The animal having been caught in a box-trap, and not maimed or crippled in any way, was first muzzled, and then let loose for a race for its life over the prairies, with hounds and hunters in full pursuit. ❋ Charlotte Ouisconsin Clark Van Cleve (1863)
Gray's Lectures before he can be trusted to make a box-trap? ❋ Oliver Wendell Holmes (1851)
Cannot a man work in wood without knowing all about endogens and exogens, or must he attend Professor Gray's Lectures before he can be trusted to make a box-trap? ❋ Oliver Wendell Holmes (1851)
It is said the Chinese catch the tiger in a box-trap, which they bait simply with a looking-glass. ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)
The way in which I used to catch them, years ago, when the sources of my enjoyment were widely different from what they are at present, was by means of a box-trap with a lid to it, so adjusted that the poor rabbit, when he undertook to nibble the apple, attached to the spindle for a bait, sprung the trap, and made himself a prisoner. ❋ Unknown (1835)
"I mean we've got the traitors as tight as a squirrel in a box-trap. ❋ Roy Rockwood (N/A)
"Man say he be bless ef he aint gwine ter make de acquaintance er Mr. Billy Malone; en he went ter wuk, he did, en fix 'im up a box-trap, en he put some goobers in dar, en he tell de little gal nex' time Mr. Billy ❋ Joel Chandler Harris (1878)
"Man say he be bless ef he ain't gwine ter make de acquaintance er Mr. Billy Malone; en he went ter wuk, he did, en fix 'im up a box-trap, en he put some goobers in dar, en he tell de little gal nex' time Mr. Billy ❋ Joel Chandler Harris (1878)
After dating for several years, Michelle had successfully caught Pete in her box trap.
Like a Chinese [finger cuff], box [traps] set by females [tighten] as the male prey helplessly thrashes. ❋ Darkstar9 (2009)
