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Meanings of lay traps in English

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Usage of lay traps in English
1
Would the Catholics hesitate to lay traps for us and massacre us?
Catherine De Medici
2
It's not at all nice to lay traps for servants like that.'
The Grim Smile of the Five Towns
3
Men had been sent to spy upon him, and women to lay traps.
A Question of Latitude
4
If you lay traps, you shall fall into them yourselves, as Jacob did.
The Gospel of the Pentateuch: A Set of Parish Sermons
5
A man like Barbicane would not lay traps or condescend to any manoeuvre!
The Moon-Voyage
6
Not in regular government pay and employment, to lay traps?
A Tale of Two Cities
7
Abra Stone wasn't the only one who could lay traps.
Doctor Sleep
8
You lay traps for yourself and walk into them.
The Lion and the Mouse; a Story of an American Life
9
Accordingly, instead of asking her frankly for the truth he proceeded to lay traps for it.
The Lost Road
10
Evil enough to lay traps to obtain me.
The Fortieth Door
11
Even when dead, civilization seemed to lay traps.
Earth Abides
12
For half the year he is hunted, everywhere dogs pursue him, men lay traps for him or menace him.
Lady into Fox
13
It seemed like they were trying to lay traps for her, leading her to the edge of a cliff.
Hush: a novel
14
Certainly some power seems to lay traps for our wills at times, and waylay us when they are off duty.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume ...
15
Do you think it's quite fair to lay traps for me, when you can count on my falling into them?
Ranching for Sylvia
16
What was once the parade-ground is covered by a thick growth of wiry grass, in which gopher- and crab-holes lay traps for the unwary.
Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885
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