"Springe" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Mowbray, thundering at the door, "come forth! You are now fairly trapped at last—caught like the woodcock in your own springe. We have you. Open the door, I say, and save us the trouble of forcing it. You cannot escape us. We will burn the building down but ...
— Rookwood • William Harrison Ainsworth
... dost thou go a-birding? Thou hast e'en set a springe to catch thy own neck. Look you here, Sir Timorous; here's something to confirm what I have told you. ...
— The Works of John Dryden, Vol. II • Edited by Walter Scott
... woodcock in the springe, But he begins to flutter. As I think He was thine host in England when I ...
— Queen Mary and Harold • Alfred Lord Tennyson
... otherwise applying heat to a degree just short of charring its surface. The mechanism will then retain the sharpness of its edges under a continuance of pressure, and during many hours of wet weather. The slighter the strain on the springe, the more delicately can ...
— The Art of Travel - Shifts and Contrivances Available in Wild Countries • Francis Galton
... hath seemed to hold in these later times, since y^e trueth begane to springe & spread after y^e great defection made by Antichrist, y^t man ...
— Bradford's History of 'Plimoth Plantation' • William Bradford
... a woodcock to my own springe.] I have run into a springe like a woodcock, and into such a noose or trap as a fool only would have fallen into; one of my ...
— Hamlet • William Shakespeare
... doth springe the colerike whiche is hote quatre complexions, car de challeur pululle collericque ...
— An Introductorie for to Lerne to Read, To Pronounce, and to Speke French Trewly • Anonymous
... tirannical practice prooveth himselfe to be." He tells, too, of a parson well known, who, being in the pulpit, and "hearing his dog cry, he out with this text: 'Why, how now, hoe! can you not let my dog alone there? Come, Springe! come, Springe!' and whistled the dog to the pulpit." One of their chief objects of attack was Cooper, Bishop of Lincoln, a laborious student, but married to a dissolute woman, whom the University of Oxford offered to separate from him: but he said he ...
— Calamities and Quarrels of Authors • Isaac D'Israeli
... vairy good!" he cried. "I see you know ze vay. It is magnifique. You see, I find I have visitor, and zey do not know ven ze dejeuner is pret, so I am oblige to make one leetle—vat you call it—trap-springe, and ...
— Cormorant Crag - A Tale of the Smuggling Days • George Manville Fenn |
