"What snares are round her!
According to the sailor, any animal, whatever it was, would be a lawful prize, and the rodents or carnivora which might get into the new snares would be well received at Granite House.
Accordingly, on the 5th of July, at six o'clock in the morning, when day had scarcely broken, Cyrus Harding, Gideon Spilett, Herbert, Neb, and Pencroft, armed with spears, snares, bows and arrows, and provided with provisions, left Granite House, preceded by Top, who bounded before them.
He soon made some snares with creepers, by the aid of which the warren henceforth every day furnished its quota of rodents.
It would not have been difficult to do this, with a few snares stretched at the openings of the burrows.
It was around these that he meant to stretch his lines, not snares, but real fishing-lines.
" To supplement the inadequate supply of noodles she could carry, Marquis brought a slingshot, a blow gun, some wire to make snares and a net for catching insects.
She went out to seek him, and as he had often told her that he had to be on his guard against the snares of the nixie, and dared not venture into the neighborhood of the mill-pond, she already suspected what had happened.
But when roland got home, he fell into the snares of another, who so fascinated him that he forgot the maiden.
