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  • Oakland, she reflected -- Oakland, the man-trap, that poisoned those it could not starve.

    CHAPTER XVIII 2010

  • Brown fared unexpectedly well today but walked from the chamber and straight into a new man-trap set by his own side.

    An intriguing PMQs – overshadowed by events 2010

  • Brown fared unexpectedly well today but walked from the chamber and straight into a new man-trap set by his own side.

    Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me 2010

  • Brown fared unexpectedly well today but walked from the chamber and straight into a new man-trap set by his own side.

    Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister? 2010

  • Brown fared unexpectedly well today but walked from the chamber and straight into a new man-trap set by his own side.

    An intriguing PMQs – overshadowed by events 2010

  • Brown fared unexpectedly well today but walked from the chamber and straight into a new man-trap set by his own side.

    An intriguing PMQs – overshadowed by events 2010

  • “Well, I guess I know enough to turn you inside out, you sockdologising old man-trap.”

    The missing booms: the best laid schemes o’ government an’ men… 2010

  • Not one of the dinky specimens designed to keep the bear in one spot until pleasure could be taken in shooting it; this was the man-trap kind, big enough to maim the bear, ensure it bled to death.

    TOO MANY MURDERS Colleen McCullough 2009

  • They explored the precincts of the village, and in a short time lighted upon the man-trap.

    The Woodlanders 2006

  • It was the work of a few moments to drag out the man-trap, very gently — that the plate might not be disturbed sufficiently to throw it — to a space between a pair of young oaks which, rooted in contiguity, grew apart upward, forming a V-shaped opening between; and, being backed up by bushes, left this as the only course for a foot-passenger.

    The Woodlanders 2006

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