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entrapment as in:  claimed legal entrapment

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  • Or how those hands, which could set the most intricate of snares, could as easily entrap me.†   (source)
  • A troop of baboons ran with arched tails flying as they zigzagged, not yet understanding their entrapment.†   (source)
  • Still others worked at entrapment, luring the boys into dark corners or the girls into tight spots in isolated passageways.†   (source)
  • Nonetheless some workers found one of them the following Saturday in a brothel and they made him sign a copy of the sheet with the demands while he was naked with the women who had helped to entrap him.†   (source)
  • Lyopidus cried out in his fear that it had been the Sky that drove him to entrap his brother, and he called on the Sky to protect him, but there was no answer.†   (source)
  • They were to get behind the redcoats and entrap them in the Hollow Way.†   (source)
  • They were entrapped in an educational system that told them exactly what to do and exactly how to do it, but sparks of individuality shone through.†   (source)
  • Violent urges that entrap him each morning and each night and for which he knows only one cure.†   (source)
  • On the rare occasions he was at the Hall, I tried to find excuses for declining work there, and when I could not afford to do so, endeavored to stay out of his line of sight and made sure I could never be entrapped into beingalone with him.†   (source)
  • The caverns had multiple entrances and exits to avoid entrapment.†   (source)
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  • We trained them secretly, using codes, methods of transport, entrapment and killing-even weapons Command Saigon knew nothing about.†   (source)
  • On the one hand she wished this kind of entrapment on no one.†   (source)
  • Not the doughtiest soldier of old Gondor, nor the most savage Orc entrapped, had ever thus endured her, or set blade to her beloved flesh.†   (source)
  • A feeling of marching through a great maze; a sense of entrapment mixed with mystery.†   (source)
  • "It is the bleakest of crimes to entrap an angel," she said.†   (source)
  • Or how if the Queen of the Underworld knew all about the signs and had made the Knight learn this name simply in order to entrap them?†   (source)
  • In the early days, a number of effective men were entrapped in situations that either damaged them personally or ruined their reputations.†   (source)
  • For it seemed perfectly logical to me that the Winston Hunnicutts, this vivid and gregarious young couple (whose garden-level living room, incidentally, afforded me a jealous glimpse of Danish-modern shelves jammed with books), had the enormous good fortune to inhabit a world populated by writers and poets and critics and other literary types; and thus on these evenings as the twilight softly fell and the terrace began to fill with chattering, beautifully dressed sophisticates, I discerned in the shadows the faces of all the impossible heroes and heroines I had ever dreamed of since that moment when my hapless spirit had become entrapped by the magic of the printed world.†   (source)
  • And both male and female must contend with the family instinct by which each seeks to entrap and control the other.†   (source)
  • Not the sunlight but the sunlight entrapped in the cloud.†   (source)
  • The stairwells were huge, open caverns that spiraled upward for several floors, providing ample opportunity to hurl flying objects, dump liquids, or entrap us in dark corners.†   (source)
  • We discussed this problem of character assassination and entrapment with Dr. King and Dick Gregory and Whitney Young and other men active in civil rights.†   (source)
  • We feared that he would be victimized by character assassins, perhaps even entrapped into this kind of "woman rap."†   (source)
  • From a colonnade steps descended to a garden, in which a lotus pool lay entrapped, the leaves so closely set that they gave an impression of a floor of moist green tiles.†   (source)
  • And he had no way of clearing himself, for a man couldn't go about saying he had lost his head about a woman—and a gentleman couldn't advertise the fact that his wife had entrapped him with a lie.†   (source)
  • She had almost forgotten her early desire to entrap him into loving her, so she could hold the whip over his insolent black head.†   (source)
  • Do you suggest, Miss Fairfax, that I entrapped Ernest into an engagement?†   (source)
  • Oh, it is only to entrap you, I know it is, as she did before!†   (source)
  • That's the story about me in Marygreen, is it—that I entrapped 'ee?†   (source)
  • Her entrapped hand was on the table, but she had already put her other hand behind her waist.†   (source)
  • 'You villain,' said I, 'what do you mean by entrapping me into your schemes?†   (source)
  • I mistrusted a design to entrap me into some admission.†   (source)
  • The crop-lien system which is depopulating the fields of the South is not simply the result of shiftlessness on the part of Negroes, but is also the result of cunningly devised laws as to mortgages, liens, and misdemeanors, which can be made by conscienceless men to entrap and snare the unwary until escape is impossible, further toil a farce, and protest a crime.†   (source)
  • 'Reality' got me so entrapped in its meshes now and again during the past six months, that I forgot my 'sentence' (or perhaps I did not wish to think of it), and actually busied myself with affairs.†   (source)
  • The Comtesse had not dared to refuse, and then and there was entrapped into a promise to send little Suzanne to spend a long and happy day at Richmond with her friend.†   (source)
  • He came beneath them in the water, which did not rise over his long boots; and stood looking at the entrapped flies and butterflies.†   (source)
  • It was as if his precocity of crookedness (and every vulgar villain is precocious) had for once deceived him, and the man he had sought to entrap as a simpleton had, through his very simplicity, ignominiously baffled him.†   (source)
  • For although created immortal, it had become subject to decay and abomination as pan of the general impairment of nature brought about by Original Sin, was now mortal and corruptible, and should be regarded merely as a prison, the stocks in which the soul was entrapped, its sole purpose being to awaken within us a feeling of shame and confusion (pudoris et confusionis sensum), as Saint Ignatius had put it.†   (source)
  • But when effects stretch so far she should not go and do that which entraps a man if he is honest, or herself if he is otherwise.†   (source)
  • The morning that Margaret had spent with Miss Avery, and the afternoon she set out to entrap Helen, were the scales of a single balance.†   (source)
  • It briefly crossed his mind that the woman meant to entrap him on behalf of the court, but that was an objection he had no difficulty in fending off.†   (source)
  • If the poor fellow has been entrapped into any foolish promise I shall consider it my duty to rescue him at once, and with a firm hand.†   (source)
  • As a balance to these austerities, when he went to live in London to see what the world was like, and with a view to practising a profession or business there, he was carried off his head, and nearly entrapped by a woman much older than himself, though luckily he escaped not greatly the worse for the experience.†   (source)
  • Marguerite vaguely wondered what further devilish plans he could have formed, in order to entrap one brave man, alone, against two-score of others.†   (source)
  • They end in two ways: Either they sink till the lunatic asylums and the workhouses are full of them, and cause Mr. Wilcox to write letters to the papers complaining of our national degeneracy, or else they entrap a boy into marriage before it is too late.†   (source)
  • "Your eyes," his mentor said, "try in vain to conceal that you know "Placet experiri," Hans Castorp had the impudence to reply, and Herr Settembrini departed—and then, to be sure, once left to his own devices, the young man did not lay out his cards again, but sat for a long time at the table in his white room, his head propped in his hand, brooding, gripped by the horror of the eerie and skewed state in which he saw the world entrapped, by the fear of the grinning demon and monkey-god in whose crazed and unrestrained power he now found himself—and whose name was "The Great Stupor."†   (source)
  • In inviting me here you yourself entrapped me for your own use; you thought I wished to revenge myself upon the prince.†   (source)
  • In what way could she entrap him?†   (source)
  • —and the old one de Tournay—were they the two fugitives who, unconsciously, were used as a decoy, to entrap their fearless and noble rescuer.†   (source)
  • Marguerite as she heard, felt that her very life was slipping away, as if when that voice drew nearer, when that singer became entrapped ... She distinctly heard the click of Desgas' gun close to her.... No!†   (source)
  • By this time the faint air had become a complete calm; so that whether or no, the Pequod was now fairly entrapped in the smell, with no hope of escaping except by its breezing up again.†   (source)
  • Nothing transpired, however, to confirm this suspicion, and Tim could not be entrapped into any confession or admission tending to support it in the smallest degree.†   (source)
  • And the roots, like serpents twisted,
    Through the sand and boulders toiling,
    Fright us, weirdest links uncoiling
    To entrap us, unresisted:
    Living knots and gnarls uncanny
    Feel with polypus-antennae
    For the wanderer.†   (source)
  • I could have thrown my bootjack at him (it lay ready on the rug), for having entrapped me into the disclosure of anything concerning Agnes, however immaterial.†   (source)
  • It is now some ten days since Ishmael, pitying the state in which he saw me, a humble lover of science, imparted the fact that the vehicle contained a beast, which he was carrying into the prairies as a decoy, by which he intends to entrap others of the same genus, or perhaps species.†   (source)
  • The plunge into this pit I had avoided by the merest of accidents, I knew that surprise, or entrapment into torment, formed an important portion of all the grotesquerie of these dungeon deaths.†   (source)
  • Perhaps some of these days I may be entrapped, like poor Peppino and may be very glad to have some little nibbling mouse to gnaw the meshes of my net, and so help me out of prison.†   (source)
  • Miss Woodhouse made the proper acquiescence; and finding that nothing more was to be entrapped from any communication of Mrs. Cole's, turned to Frank Churchill.†   (source)
  • It was very desirable to increase our stock of these pretty birds, and I cautioned the boys against shooting near our tree while they had nests there, and also with regard to the snares, which were meant only to entrap the wild-fig-eaters.†   (source)
  • The father of this pleasant grandfather, of the neighbourhood of Mount Pleasant, was a horny-skinned, two-legged, money-getting species of spider who spun webs to catch unwary flies and retired into holes until they were entrapped.†   (source)
  • Isabel couldn't rid herself of a suspicion that they were playing somehow at cross-purposes—that the simplicity of each had been entrapped.†   (source)
  • The foolish scissors have slipped too far over the knuckles, it seems, and Hercules holds out his entrapped fingers hopelessly.†   (source)
  • Could she have been entrapped?†   (source)
  • This girl," he continued, looking at me, "knew no more than you, Wood, of the disgusting secret: she thought all was fair and legal and never dreamt she was going to be entrapped into a feigned union with a defrauded wretch, already bound to a bad, mad, and embruted partner!†   (source)
  • How base would it be of me to take advantage of the circumstances which placed her here, or of the slight service I was happily able to render her, and to seek to engage her affections when the result must be, if I succeeded, that the brothers would be disappointed in their darling wish of establishing her as their own child, and that I must seem to hope to build my fortunes on their compassion for the young creature whom I had so meanly and unworthily entrapped: turning her very gratitude and warmth of heart to my own purpose and account, and trading in her misfortunes!†   (source)
  • "Do you want me then," said Estella, turning suddenly with a fixed and serious, if not angry, look, "to deceive and entrap you?"†   (source)
  • with an eyeglass and a stylish hat; a third, dressed as a farmer well to do in the world, with his top-coat over his arm and his flash notes in a large leathern pocket-book; and all with heavy-handled whips to represent most innocent country fellows who had trotted there on horseback—sought, by loud and noisy talk and pretended play, to entrap some unwary customer, while the gentlemen confederates (of more villainous aspect still, in clean linen and good clothes), betrayed their close interest in the concern by the anxious furtive glance they cast on all new comers.†   (source)
  • Notwithstanding the aversion with which I regarded the idea of entrapping him into any disclosure he was not prepared to make voluntarily, I should have taken him up at this point, but for the strange proceedings in which I saw him engaged; whereof his putting the lemon-peel into the kettle, the sugar into the snuffer-tray, the spirit into the empty jug, and confidently attempting to pour boiling water out of a candlestick, were among the most remarkable.†   (source)
  • What kind of return would that be which would be comprised in our permitting their nephew, their only relative, whom they regard as a son, and for whom it would be mere childishness to suppose they have not formed plans suitably adapted to the education he has had, and the fortune he will inherit—in our permitting him to marry a portionless girl: so closely connected with us, that the irresistible inference must be, that he was entrapped by a plot; that it was a deliberate scheme, and a speculation amongst us three?†   (source)
  • Do you deceive and entrap him, Estella?†   (source)
  • First entrap the bird, and where shall the chicks run then?†   (source)
  • This man here was unable to entrap him; His defenses are sound when such snares enwrap him.†   (source)
  • This advice was well received, the old woman approved it; they said not a word to his sister; the thing was executed for a little money, and they had the double pleasure of entrapping a Jesuit, and punishing the pride of a German baron.†   (source)
  • A thousand thoughts at once suggested themselves to him on the subject of this new adventure, and it struck him as being ill done and worse advised in him to expose himself to the danger of breaking his plighted faith to his lady; and said he to himself, "Who knows but that the devil, being wily and cunning, may be trying now to entrap me with a duenna, having failed with empresses, queens, duchesses, marchionesses, and countesses?†   (source)
  • Here in her hairs The painter plays the spider, and hath woven A golden mesh t' entrap the hearts of men Faster than gnats in cobwebs: but her eyes!†   (source)
  • Then to the point: In short time after, he deposed the King; Soon after that, deprived him of his life; And, in the neck of that, task'd the whole State: To make that worse, suffer'd his kinsman March (Who is, if every owner were well placed, Indeed his king) to be engaged in Wales, There without ransom to lie forfeited; Disgraced me in my happy victories, Sought to entrap me by intelligence; Rated my uncle from the Council-board; In rage dismiss'd my father from the Court; Broke oath on oath, committed wrong on wrong; And, in conclusion, drove us to seek out This head of safety; and withal to pry Into his title, the which now we find Too indirect for long continuance.†   (source)
  • And thou wert best look to't; for if thou dost him any slight disgrace, or if he do not mightily grace himself on thee, he will practise against thee by poison, entrap thee by some treacherous device, and never leave thee till he hath ta'en thy life by some indirect means or other: for, I assure thee, and almost with tears I speak it, there is not one so young and so villainous this day living.†   (source)
  • Thus ornament is but the guiled shore To a most dangerous sea; the beauteous scarf Veiling an Indian beauty; in a word, The seeming truth which cunning times put on To entrap the wisest.†   (source)
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entrapment as in:  entrapment in a spider's web

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  • The enemy, far from trying to repel him, welcomed him in, so he could be thoroughly entrapped before they destroyed him.   (source)
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