| 单词 | mousetrap |
| 例句 | He didn't like it when she said foolish words lined up, like mousetrap taffy-puller. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z “And what about when that mousetrap snapped? Man, I could hear him swearing all the way up in the barn.” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z What if there’s a mousetrap back there, or, or…. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z When one of my shoes came off, I realized my feet were actually dangling above the floor, and four mousetraps became a definite five. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z At which point he held up a mousetrap dangling the jellied mouse. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Tie one end of the string to the trappy part of the mousetrap. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z He just lifted the box and pulled the spring mechanism of the mousetrap back until it clicked into place again. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z We did not have any mousetraps or rat poison in the house, and my mother had not been up to anything suspicious during the night. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z In one hole, he’d found only a tangle of leaves and berries, and in another, a mousetrap, which snapped on his thumb. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z “So, a liquor crate, some of them dead flies, a straw, and a mousetrap.” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z When I pulled down my bedcover that night, I found a mousetrap on my pillow. Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Some find their way to barn lofts; some even creep into people’s houses and live under the eaves or in attics, taking their chances with mousetraps. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z He was shaking the hand that he’d hit me with, as if there were a crab or a mousetrap attached to it. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z He was frozen halfway up his stepladder, placing a new case of mousetraps next to a ceiling fan. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Held high in her hand was a mousetrap, with the mouse still in it. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Around the camp, Coach Hedge had rigged all sorts of trip wires, snares and oversized mousetraps that wouldn’t stop any self-respecting monster, but they might very well bring down a senior citizen. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Each time I would hear the kitchen door click shut behind me and I would almost turn back, it sounded so metallic, like a mousetrap or a weapon, but I would not turn back. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Genie went to give him five, but Grandpop caught his hand, clamped down on it like a mousetrap on a mouse, and shook it hard and tight. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Suddenly I was on the floor, and the mousetrap was on my big toe. Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a snap, and the hand was trapped in a mousetrap. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z He just wrote punch lines that snap like mousetraps, spread them throughout a special dominated by a clearly defined point of view and when blowback came, he laughed it off. Best Comedy of 2019 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z Which in turn releases a red mesh bell—the final goal of the whimsical contraption—the fall of the mousetrap. Why are we here? Evolution’s dirty secrets 2013-06-02T11:00:00Z She laughs, and that mousetrap necklace swings again. Neneh Cherry: 'Jazz can be the way you make love' 2012-05-22T18:30:01Z So a seemingly better way of banking turns out, perhaps, to be a better mousetrap for those willing to take the bait. ‘Dead Man’s Switch: A Crypto Mystery’ Review: A Staggering Scam? 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z "Marriage is a mousetrap," declares Mrs Gascoyne, an east Midlands matriarch who brooks no argument. The Daughter-in-Law – review 2013-03-05T18:18:23Z Building a better mousetrap In the 1930s, not long after the first, rudimentary slot machines began appearing in the United States, the behavioural psychologist BF Skinner was conducting experiments with rats. Ka-Ching: pokies documentary reveals what makes the machines so addictive 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z Ordinary mousetraps placed perpendicular to the runways are effective, but unfortunately they catch ground-feeding songbirds as well. Dealing with furry, unwelcome visitors in your garden Photograph: Graeme Robertson for the Guardian Neneh Cherry sits in her manager's fashionable office, wearing a necklace made out of a mousetrap that swings around as she speaks. Neneh Cherry: 'Jazz can be the way you make love' 2012-05-22T18:30:01Z The canoe caromed off a submerged rock and flipped upside-down, like a mousetrap snapping shut. Explorer: On Quebec Fur Traders? Trail, With a Paddle 2011-07-01T17:00:00Z The brother and sister pair have grown up knowing only how to evade mousetraps and enjoy nature channels on television. Of Mice and Men 2022-10-11T04:00:00Z He nodded and picked up the largest trap available, a supersized version of a mousetrap. If a Rat Falls Into Your Bed, Call Your Lover’s Boyfriend 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z Firm and flavoursome, they were thinly sliced on top of lettuce salads, which were served with corned beef or tinned pilchards or grated mousetrap cheese. Family life 2010-10-22T23:07:00Z My favorite moment comes in the battle: the adult mice drag on a giant mousetrap, load it laboriously with a giant block of orange cheese and catapult that at the dainty soldierettes, sending them flying. ArtsBeat: 'The Nutcracker' Chronicles: In Virginia, a Nutcracker for Every State 2010-12-28T17:05:53Z There are two examples of the proverbial better mousetrap. ‘Inventions That Didn’t Change the World,’ by Julie Halls 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z When Hamlet stages his “mousetrap” play — in which performers replicate the murder of his father — the members of the court take their seats in an empty aisle in the audience. Review: In ‘Hamlet,’ Ruth Negga Rules as a Player Prince 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z In the Kerry Low Low Cheese ad, which features a mouse dodging thousands of traps, he comments that the ad is about how ineffectual mousetraps are. Jimmy Carr to hijack GoCompare ad 2010-04-01T13:42:00Z Anvils drop from the sky to crush devious coyotes or tomcats who emerge alive, if bandaged and on crutches, in the next frame, ready to build better mousetraps. "BoJack Horseman": Life's hilarity and pain, illustrated 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z Here’s the thing: In response to this wonderfully intricate mousetrap we inhabit, I propose, laughably enough, the cultivation of “enough,” a concept as elegant in its simplicity as it is revolutionary in its implications. The case for “good enough”: Forget striving–our happiness depends on being satisfied with less 2016-04-10T04:00:00Z Rather than describing their sense of futility, Kumarasamy folds the emotion into an image of birds pecking at newly planted seeds, so that “in the end, the garden looked more like a series of mousetraps.” Debut Stories Trace the Aftershocks of the Sri Lankan Civil War 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z People who invent languages are exercising the poetic aspect of being human, trying to improve on things because we like a better mousetrap. Elvish, Klingon and Esperanto?Why Do We Love To Invent Languages? 2011-11-16T10:00:27Z The good folks behind Atlantis on Paradise Island had, indeed, built a better mousetrap. Following an 8-Year-Old to Atlantis 2014-03-07T16:28:34Z One night, at a particularly low point in the couple's marriage, a mousetrap went off in her face. Tolstoy's great estate 2010-11-20T00:07:00Z Murphy’s recommendation: “Salt the lingerie drawer with plastic snakes or a loaded mousetrap.” ‘The Long Haul’ Is a Trucker’s Slangy Tour of the Road 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z He gestured to the floor, which was arrayed with what looked like construction rubble, a cardboard box with packing peanuts spilling out, a mousetrap. John Waters, the Man Who Brought Us Divine and Loves Brown Art 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z Continuing its emphasis on style and character progression, these three new episodes take Morse and Thursday into the world of professional football, a nudist colony and an Agatha Christie-flavored mousetrap. As "Endeavour" approaches the end of its run, more of us should appreciate its mystery 2022-06-19T04:00:00Z Were they “mousetraps,” per Pauline Kael, or was Hitchcock “the greatest creator of forms of the 20th century,” as Godard put it? The Many Selves of Alfred Hitchcock, Phobias, Fetishes and All 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z Blanchett plays a Marina Abramović-style performance artist, whose work variously involves painting her body and flinging herself at a wall, or putting a bucket on her head and running through mousetraps. Documentary Now! Why you should make this the next TV show you watch 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z “We want to build the best mousetrap,” he said. As California fires worsen, can AI come to the rescue? 2023-08-24T04:00:00Z They were flawed individuals, but they had a crucial insight into how to build a better mousetrap. Drugs in the White House? Horrors! Guess what: It wouldn't be the first time 2023-07-06T04:00:00Z “They have built one of the most complex mousetraps in the world,” Mr. Brunson said. A Poisonous Cold War Legacy That Defies a Solution 2023-05-31T04:00:00Z Kyiv portrays the city as a "mousetrap" for Russian troops, important mainly because of the opportunity the battle presented to destroy the attacking forces in huge numbers. Ukraine says it advances on Bakhmut's flanks to entrap Russians 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z “Wagner’s men have entered Bakhmut like rats into a mousetrap,” the commander of all Ukrainian ground forces, Col. Gains Near Bakhmut Raise Ukraine’s Hopes of a Turning Tide 2023-05-17T04:00:00Z Local volunteers pitched in to help build the contraptions, which are triggered by mousetraps and fashioned out of PVC pipe and chicken wire. Could prescribed fires offer the best protection for Washington's lynx? 2023-05-12T04:00:00Z But they did have a crucial insight into how to build a better mousetrap. Drugs in the White House? Horrors! Guess what: It wouldn't be the first time 2023-07-06T04:00:00Z But he asked, “Was the mousetrap too good?” Inside the Panic at Fox News After the 2020 Election 2023-03-04T05:00:00Z There are more than 4,400 mousetrap patents in the United States, but it is difficult to find designs specifically for catching rats — most are just bigger mousetraps. Is There an Ethical Way to Kill Rats? Should We Even Ask? 2023-02-27T05:00:00Z But the gatekeepers of phony commercial solutions to existential violence — such as better helmets, no more effective than better mousetraps — want us to focus on only one aspect of football harm. Football's problem isn't the rules, the equipment or the medical care: This sport kills 2023-01-14T05:00:00Z “If our mind-set approaching this is that we have to build a better mousetrap to catch kids cheating, I just think that’s the wrong approach, because the kids are going to figure something out.” Don’t Ban ChatGPT in Schools. Teach With It. 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z But those trying to take advantage could end up in a legal mousetrap. Your Wednesday Briefing 2022-12-28T05:00:00Z The matter is more complicated than it appears, and those who try to capitalize on the expiring “Steamboat Willie” copyright could easily end up in a legal mousetrap. Mickey’s Copyright Adventure: Early Disney Creation Will Soon Be Public Property 2022-12-27T05:00:00Z Partly because of this, Woodstream, the country’s largest rat and mousetrap manufacturer, sells some 60 million mousetraps a year and nine million rat traps, according to Miguel Nistal, the company’s president and chief executive. Is There an Ethical Way to Kill Rats? Should We Even Ask? 2023-02-27T05:00:00Z Lay down a few mousetraps or use repellents that they are not fans of. Edmunds: 5 tips for storing your vehicle this winter 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z “It’s not incentivizing them to go out there and try to find somebody who’s built a better mousetrap and can generate power more cheaply,” he said. Clean Energy Quest Pits Google Against Utilities 2022-12-20T05:00:00Z He had supposedly built a better mousetrap, and the world had indeed beaten a path to his door. Opinion | How long till people stop falling for ‘founder’ hype? 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z "So these areas need to develop and implement plans to minimise risks and make evacuation routes, to ensure that they do not become mousetraps." Three ways climate change makes adventure tourism riskier 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z Lamb’s team wondered whether body-gripping traps, a bit like oversized mousetraps, could be to blame. Fur traps fingered as source of grizzly injuries 2022-09-02T04:00:00Z However, the site that Helium touted as the place to buy Helium-enabled Victor mousetraps in its announcement of the partnership no longer seems to sell them. Helium says its crypto mesh network is used by Lime and Salesforce — it isn’t 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z Jacobson has spent the past decade trying to build the better mousetrap to predict brackets. Hoop hype: March Madness brackets get America talking again 2022-03-15T04:00:00Z An old saying of uncertain provenance promises that if you build a better mousetrap, the world will beat a path to your door. Opinion | Ron Popeil was an incomparable huckster — but wait! There’s more! 2021-07-30T04:00:00Z As with mousetraps, inventors tweaked and improved the eggbeater over the decades. Perspective | The beat goes on, but without the classic, hand-cranked eggbeater 2021-02-21T05:00:00Z EXCLUSIVE: Is it possible that a mousetrap can cure a hangover or a horseshoe can help you find a soulmate? Former ‘Dirty Jobs’ host Mike Rowe talks new show: ‘We’re desperate today to find topics we can all agree on’ 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z But ultimately, the TrackPoint is proof that as hard as it is to build a better mousetrap, it might be even harder to build a better mouse. The ThinkPad TrackPoint tried to build a better mouse 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door. Perspective | An unlikely bright spot in a pandemic: A tiny picnic table for squirrels is a hit 2020-04-12T04:00:00Z The mousetraps allude to Saint Augustine’s description of the cross as “the devil’s mousetrap.” Perspective | This 15th-century Annunciation Triptych induces otherworldly calm — and possibly vertigo 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z “We all wanted to build a better mousetrap,” said Dr. Phil Smith, an infectious disease expert who led the effort to create the biocontainment unit at Nebraska Medical Center. Why treat people exposed to virus in Omaha? Why not? 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z “We all wanted to build a better mousetrap,” said Dr. Phil Smith, an infectious disease expert who led the effort to create the biocontainment unit at Nebraska Medical Center. Why treat people exposed to virus in Omaha? Why not? 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z Back then, Hopkins was spreading mousetraps around Alaska Airlines Arena while preaching “Don’t eat the cheese” as a reminder to players to stay grounded and avoid buying into the hype surrounding the team. Mike Hopkins has never faced a losing streak like this. But the Husky coach is remaining positive: ‘We’ve got to believe’ 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z His members’ concern, he says, is that the administration will propose “a laser-guided mousetrap for a mouse.” Column: Despite lack of evidence of abuse, Trump plans to overhaul Medicaid eligibility 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z Here was a corporate defense attorney — a true believer in “the system” — suddenly ensnared in the mousetrap he’d helped build. 'Dark Waters' spans a 20-year legal case. But its message is for right now 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z But we don’t need to invent a new mousetrap or reverse engineer our favorite foods and drinks to keep them around. How to Save Coffee from Climate Change 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z “We are all too aware that for environmental problems, gentle nudges may appear ridiculously inadequate — a bit like an effort to capture a lion with a mousetrap,” they wrote in the chapter “Saving the Planet.” The bad news about nudges: They might be backfiring 2019-05-27T04:00:00Z It’s the proverbial better mousetrap, and it ignores the idea that the old mousetraps work just fine for most people. Don’t give up old investment standards to try new ideas 2019-05-18T04:00:00Z “The Big N” shows a doll hand ensnared in a mousetrap, surrounded by a chain link fence, all coated in a black lacquer paint. The Broad’s ‘Soul of a Nation’: Art from the rubble of Watts 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z Last month, the Huskies returned home from a road series sweep at Utah and Colorado and walked into their newly renovated locker room littered with mousetraps. ‘Don’t eat the cheese’: How Mike Hopkins is using mousetraps to keep Huskies on the path to success 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z Other geopolitical foes will be neutralized by upturned rakes and strategically placed mousetraps. Opinion | Trump is a slapstick genius for the comically disastrous way he runs the country 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z Those ants start from an open position and suddenly snap shut like a mousetrap. Dracula ant's killer jaws are nature's fastest mover at 200 mph 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z “It’s just a better mousetrap,” said CEO James Rhodes, who says his target market is the “Panamax” size bulk cargo ships carrying iron ore, coal or grain. Sails make a comeback as shipping tries to go green 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z Just because the blockchain provides a better mousetrap does not mean that it will restructure the world. Why we must regulate the blockchain 2018-11-25T05:00:00Z When someone builds a better mousetrap, the world should beat a path to his door. You’ve Become Rich. That Doesn’t Mean You’re Great at Everything. 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z As always, you can visit our super-snappy midterm page that shows you all of the rankings for House, Senate and governor races and provides some context for how we have built our mousetrap. Fox News Power Rankings: Pump up the volume 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z “We partner with commercial companies that we see as having a better mousetrap.” Defense giants bet big on small satellites 2018-09-16T04:00:00Z Green taxis were supposed to be that mousetrap — a new category for the entrenched taxi industry, created when Michael R. Bloomberg was mayor. Where Yellow Cabs Didn’t Go, Green Cabs Were Supposed to Thrive. Then Came Uber. 2018-09-03T04:00:00Z “If someone thinks they have a better mousetrap, I’m all in.” Ford’s New CEO Has a Cerebral Style—and to Many, It’s Baffling 2018-08-14T04:00:00Z We shouldn’t assume he’s good at anything but building mousetraps, however, no matter how rich he is. You’ve Become Rich. That Doesn’t Mean You’re Great at Everything. 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z There’s a case to be made that Thinx has so far pulled through simply because it’s built a better mousetrap, though it’s tough to say whether that’s actually true. Period feminism: how a startup used lofty ideals to sell menstrual underwear 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z But there would be no reason to maintain this mass of benchmarks if managers weren’t trying to improve the way they slice, dice, measure the market in the search for the proverbial better mousetrap. Are you an active, passive or rules-based investor? 2018-03-31T04:00:00Z Despite it’s sinister tone, this article really is about Cambridge Analytica building a better mousetrap. How Trump Consultants Exploited the Facebook Data of Millions 2018-03-17T04:00:00Z Unsuspecting targets who forget the Russian adage that “free cheese can be found only in a mousetrap” are vulnerable to blackmail, he said. Mikhail Lesin’s death swung attention to Russia after Obama’s intelligence fiasco 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z A molecular mousetrap determines polarity of termination of DNA replication in E. coli. Mechanism of tandem duplication formation in BRCA1-mutant cells 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z In those other groups, the trap-jaw works like a catapult or a mousetrap. How these insects bite 700 times faster than you can blink 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z Other items recovered from the sands included a telephone book; a toilet seat; three mousetraps; a TV remote control; a roasting pan; a set of chopsticks; and a pink plastic lawn flamingo. Shore shame: Condoms, dentures, among New Jersey beach trash 2017-04-19T04:00:00Z Re-examining the small box - now lying in pieces - I discovered the source of the noise: a hidden mousetrap. The jolly prankster of Oakley, and other Main Street faces 2017-03-18T04:00:00Z Illinois State Coach Dan Muller devised a quintessentially 2017 mousetrap on Monday, tweeting at the power conferences that he wished to schedule games. Midmajors Suffer Under Built-In Biases of N.C.A.A.’s Selection Process 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z And it’s far from clear that the Republican mousetrap would win this contest. Opinion | Republicans wave a white flag on health care 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z Unlike mousetraps, mole traps do not kill instantly and do not always kill cleanly. Going underground: inside the world of the mole-catchers 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z Invent a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door. Perspective | Sure, most dog owners bag their pooch’s waste, but why then leave the bag behind? 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z He describes this as the "build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door" marketing strategy. Red hot: How a cooker developed a cult following - BBC News 2017-03-05T05:00:00Z “These countries are not growing due to lack of investments — they are caught in a mousetrap,” one analyst said. Neil Gorsuch, Somalia, Romania: Your Thursday Briefing 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z They are constantly adjusting and fine-tuning for quality, trying to account not only for the better-built mousetrap, but also the new mousetrap app, its upgrades and sometimes even the version sold on the black market. The Economic Growth That Experts Can’t Count 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z Lethal body-grip traps - although much larger than mousetraps, they operate on the same principle - he places underwater along the banks of streams and lakes for killing beaver, otters and muskrats. Couple’s dog gets caught in steel trap set in Missouri park 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z “That’s why taxpayer dollars fund N.I.H. research – to push the envelope, to build a better mousetrap, to find a better answer to a question.” Parents View New Peanut Guidelines With Guilt and Skepticism 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z The name, Dionaea muscipula, is derived from words meaning “the goddess of love” and “mousetrap,” according to the conservancy. Venus Flytraps Need Protection From Poachers in North Carolina 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z “It’s not enough to build a better mousetrap, it’s how to get it to the market.” Visa Taps Blockchain for Cross-Border Payment Plan 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z Index funds aren’t always any better, with hundreds of indexes created for the purposes of building and developing new investment products and few of them proving to be the proverbial better mousetrap. Indexing legend rejects newfangled funds 2016-10-15T04:00:00Z "We build a better mousetrap, we win," Conrad said. Honda expands SUV production in U.S. 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z “One thing to know about the Mercers: They always think they have a better mousetrap,” said a Republican strategist who knows them and requested anonymity to avoid angering the family. The rise of GOP mega-donor Rebekah Mercer 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z Today, index funds are the acknowledged better mousetrap. Few reasons left not to have index funds 2016-09-10T04:00:00Z What it lacked, though, was an ecosystem that kept users from walking away when somebody finally built a better mousetrap. Apple’s greatest innovation is its ecosystem 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z There is, for instance, a life-size mousetrap arranged in a giant circle. Nerds and Rockers to Face Off in a Queens Parking Lot 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z On the Internet someone is always looking for reasons to drive traffic to the next bigger, better mousetrap. Keep the Government's Hands Off Facebook 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z It was during our physics unit and we built mousetrap cars and we raced them and tested them and made them better. Award-Winning Maryland Teacher Crafts STEM Lessons Around Students' Interests 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z There will always be a need for a better mousetrap and even Google knows that. Google’s Antitrust Woes in Europe Are Likely to Grow 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z Some are placed just out of reach, luring greedy travelers into long-distance leaps to their death, while others are put in plain sight, like cheese in a mousetrap ready to spring shut on the player. What you need to know before playing Dark Souls III 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z Stamp the accelerator and it goes off like a sprung mousetrap. Tesla Model X: Electric Meets Extravagant 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z Where are the specific plans for "upskilling" the workers who made the old mousetraps? Everyone Failed the Rust Belt 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z Roughly 4,400 other mousetrap inventors later received patents for variations on the same theme. Hagley owns world’s 2nd biggest patent model collection 2016-03-12T05:00:00Z “I understand that people are always looking for something new, something big, a new mousetrap, so to speak,” LaGrange said. Louisiana envisions offshore port to lure mega-ships 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z This was the proverbial better mousetrap, a major improvement from the hemp-filled metal anchors then in use. Artur Fischer, Inventor With More Patents Than Edison, Dies at 96 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z The Verge likes The Slow Mo Guys, but we can't endorse their latest video, in which one man unleashes the full wrath of a mousetrap upon his vulnerable tongue. Don't do this to your tongue, please 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z And if those workers are ill equipped for the "new mousetrap" economy, Detroit happens. Everyone Failed the Rust Belt 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z But, as usual whenever a better mouse comes along, someone is bound to devise a better mousetrap. Despite Decades of Stealth, Sticking Points Bedevil F-35 Jet 2016-01-24T05:00:00Z And the best way to bait one of those wooden Victor mousetraps is with a slightly masticated Tootsie Roll. This Howard County hardware store has seen — and sold — it all 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z They’re always thinking of new ways to build a mousetrap — and are often scorned by the masses for being materialistic, self-absorbed and greedy. This Is How Millionaires View Money — and Why It’s Successful 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z So that it would appear, albeit on the basis of a few choice quotes, that Tim Story and friends are building a better mousetrap is encouraging. 'Ride Along 2' Trailer: Why It'll Be Ironic When Kevin Hart/Ice Cube Sequel Tops 'Fantastic Four' 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z Mr. McConnell tried this summer to attach the cybersecurity measure to a broader defense bill as a way to mousetrap Democrats into voting for it, but that effort failed. Cybersecurity Bill Is Latest to Be Delayed in Senate 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z When other entrepreneurs suggested that stock options or profit-sharing would have been a better approach, he said that’s the way capitalism works: Everyone tries to invent the best mousetrap. A Company Copes With Backlash Against the Raise That Roared 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z In fact, Gray and Carlisle write extensively about Greenblatt’s “Magic Formula” and much of the book is an attempt to build the proverbial better mousetrap. Review: Quantitative Value 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z Nobody just announces a slightly better mousetrap or marginal improvement in automobile fuel efficiency, or at least if they do, they don’t draw a crowd of media. Warning Signs For Energy Technology Investors 2: Viva La Revolucion 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z There’s nothing like a little competition to inspire you to build a better mousetrap — or data analytics infrastructure, as the case may be. Partner or Competitor? Frenemies in Business 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z In most cases, the owner of the latest, best mousetrap, brags about all of its innovative features and benefits. Why Google Glass Failed And Why Apple Watch Could Too 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z "There's no question that cell-free DNA for screening for Down syndrome is a better mousetrap," Simpson said. Newer Test for Down Syndrome Called 'Major Advance' 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z Hence the sculptures of everyday objects - a slingshot, pliers, a mousetrap, a paint roller, a machete - entirely swathed in embroidery. Exhibit in ex-pysch ward celebrates famed Brazilian artist 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z Hence the sculptures of everyday objects — a slingshot, pliers, a mousetrap, a paint roller, a machete — entirely swathed in embroidery. Exhibit in ex-pysch ward celebrates famed Brazilian artist 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z "We're in this interim period of what to do before a better mousetrap is built," Ross said. Hospitals grapple with safety of scopes after UCLA outbreak 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z “The first day they all look at you with a blank stare thinking, how are we going to get a mousetrap to move a car?” said Hilsinger, the industrial technology teacher at Bancroft-Rosalie Public School. Teacher challenges students to build mousetrap-powered cars 2014-12-28T05:00:00Z The reason the richest of the rich are enjoying such immense incomes is not because they suddenly got smarter and built better mousetraps. One Nation Divided by Wealth A lamp rested precariously on a stack of hardcover books, an oversize mousetrap remained in wait in the kitchen, and the refrigerator offered a lingering odor and a handful of Bud Lights. After Decades, Lawmakers Are Roommates No More 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z “It’s not enough just to build a better mousetrap,” he said. Obama’s immigration executive order is a confession of democratic failure "It's not enough just to build a better mousetrap," Obama added. Obama Blames Message for Midterm Failure 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z “It’s not enough just to build a better mousetrap,” the president told host Bob Schieffer. President Obama: We got beat 2014-11-09T05:00:00Z There is an axiom that he who builds the best mousetrap enjoys the greatest success. America’s most trusted news source not so trustworthy 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z No fan of nuclear weapons, he compared plutonium to a boxful of mousetraps loaded with ping-pong balls, into which you drop one ball to detonate it. The scary element that saved the crew of Apollo 13 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z When Tom moved into his new office, an aide advised him how to strategically place the mousetraps. As Cubs Slowly Rebuild, There’s Shouting From the Rooftops 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z Notably, Mr. Musk is not seeking a better mousetrap; he is seeking a standard mousetrap at a better price. Nevada a Winner in Tesla’s Battery Contest 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z Truth be known, I regularly receive calls from managers seeking insights into the institutional marketplace and have, on occasion, provided guidance to those sincerely committed to offering investors a better mousetrap. Hedge and Private Equity Managers Willing to Take "Transparency Pledge" May Win Big 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z Instead, build a more intuitive, useful and stylish mousetrap. Apple-Beats Deal Epitomizes the Preeminence of Design Over Technology 2014-06-01T04:00:00Z If you invent a pill or a better mousetrap, you can patent it. In new case, Supreme Court revisits the question of software patents 2014-03-28T15:54:21Z Sometimes the key to driving sales and growth isn’t inventing a better mousetrap. 9 Ways Of Warby Parker: Focus On These "Easy" Growth Tips 2014-03-25T15:32:00Z Ralph Waldo Emerson never said “Build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door.” How Geothermal Heat Pumps Can Soar Like Solar 2014-02-28T15:20:00Z “It’s a better mousetrap, there’s no doubt about that,” said Dr. Michael Greene, director of obstetrics at Massachusetts General Hospital and co-author of an editorial about the study. Well: New DNA Test Better at Predicting Some Disorders in Babies, Study Finds 2014-02-26T22:03:51Z “We realized that we had invented a better mousetrap,” he said. Connecticut Plans to Market Health Exchange Expertise 2014-02-25T02:27:19Z Maybe as long as I didn’t observe them, they’d be stuck suspended in a kind of quantum mousetrap, half real, half illusion. Schrodinger’s Rats and The Search for Ultimate Reality [Excerpt] 2014-01-31T15:00:00Z The point is that you don’t need to invent a better mousetrap in order to innovate in the mousetrap business. 9 Ways Of Warby Parker: Focus On These "Easy" Growth Tips 2014-03-25T15:32:00Z We should expect to see further policy adjustments of this sort as Islamic finance becomes less a curiosity and more just another mousetrap for use anywhere in the world. Islamic Finance Helps Businesses, Developers, Investors Worldwide 2014-01-30T18:16:00Z Yet long-term economic growth would be impossible without people willing to wager all they have by starting a business, expanding an existing one or trying to invent a better mousetrap. Free exchange: Risk off 2014-01-23T15:59:50Z "We're opposed to penalizing satellite subscribers for choosing a better mousetrap." Satellite TV, cable embroiled in fight over taxes 2014-01-23T06:00:00Z He helped me load my basket with rat traps—standard spring- loaded mousetraps, only bigger. Schrodinger’s Rats and The Search for Ultimate Reality [Excerpt] 2014-01-31T15:00:00Z Young entrepreneurs today made their money by building a better mousetrap, and they have been rewarded by the market for it. 15 Chicagoans on Forbes 400 list 2013-09-16T15:33:00Z “We can build a better mousetrap here,” said David Madland, director of the American Worker Project at CAP. A better way to save for retirement? 2013-08-20T15:08:00Z Product features, new technologies, and the ‘better mousetrap’ sorts of sources of advantage are proving to be less durable than we once thought. It's Official! The End of Competitive Advantage 2013-06-02T19:00:03Z Fact: Contrary to the "build a better mousetrap" theory, nearly 85 percent of all new products patented never succeed in the real world. 8 Myths About Great Salespeople 2013-05-31T12:00:42Z A good sales team can be as important as a good product.We’ve all heard it: “Create a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.” 4 Things Every Entrepreneur Should Know About Sales 2013-05-14T13:26:46Z His electronic gadgets range from temperature and energy monitors to an automated mousetrap. Bits Blog: A Messenger for the Internet of Things 2013-04-25T04:15:23Z Success depends on your ability to create that better mousetrap that will attract customers. 3 Ways You Need to Give Up Control 2013-04-03T13:10:00Z Building a better mousetrap is generally not a path to success. Why Most Cloud Computing Companies are Doomed to Fail 2013-03-21T16:11:49Z To rephrase a cliché, sometimes if you build a better mousetrap, your customers start booking reservations far in advance. Need an Idea? Try Reinventing the Obvious 2013-02-13T14:40:00Z But often it does take effort to demonstrate how great your mousetrap is to potential customers. 4 Things Every Entrepreneur Should Know About Sales 2013-05-14T13:26:46Z Mistake #2: Assuming that the quality of your product is obvious You’ve probably heard the adage “build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door.” 3 Mistakes That Can Thwart a Great Idea 2013-01-28T10:00:17Z They were not trying to invent a better mousetrap, but the world did beat a path to their door. The perils of translational research 2012-11-26T18:45:13.717Z In our experience, however, a compelling "mousetrap" will fail without a sustained, smart strategy to reach customers. Build a Path to Your Customers 2012-10-15T15:50:47Z We always need better mousetraps―and many development stakeholders are busy inventing them or modifying them to fit specific circumstances. Toward Health for All 2012-10-04T14:17:06Z “Teachers in many places believe that they see administrations and state legislatures creating language and policies that’s nothing more than a mousetrap.” Teacher evaluations at center of Chicago strike 2012-09-13T07:16:00Z That may be true of some mythical mousetrap, but not for most products and services--at least not at first. 3 Mistakes That Can Thwart a Great Idea 2013-01-28T10:00:17Z While Apple tends to deliver a better mousetrap, it also tends to wait until the technology and infrastructure mature. Apple, iOS 6 & Mobile Payments - One More Thing for the iPhone 5? 2012-09-11T12:55:11Z Your best target for "better mousetrap" innovation will often be those sub-markets or niches that are evolving rapidly within your mature market. 6 Signs Your Market is Maturing 2012-08-20T14:34:25Z With their better “mousetrap”, perhaps students will indeed beat the proverbial path to their door. Ujjwal Gupta's BenchPrep Poised to Revolutionize the Education Market 2012-08-08T15:09:49Z Here, vendors hawk the stuff of everyday life: bolts of cheap fabric, mountains of socks and underwear, clay cooking pots, shag rugs, men’s pajamas, Islamically correct head scarves, motor oil and mousetraps. Letter From Paris: Sniff Deep in a Market Like No Other - Letter From Paris 2012-07-03T18:16:30Z Suffice it to say that it is the proverbial better mousetrap alluded to by champions of free trade. Brewing Business: Can Kickstarter Create A New Food Economy? 2012-05-23T10:45:50Z “Whoever can come up with the best mousetrap certainly has a lot of business opportunities.” Invasive Species Target of New Ballast Water Rule 2012-04-07T19:09:22Z She stood up, walked out of the sweat-house, went to the east; went quickly, went to that same rocky mountain where Tsanunewa had set his mousetraps. Creation Myths of Primitive America In relation to the Religious History and Mental Development of Mankind 2012-03-13T02:00:25.633Z It can store energy that can be released cleanly when it is discharged, like the spring in a mousetrap, or water pumped to the top of a hill in a reversible hydroelectric plant. Green Blog: The Quest for 'Hydricity' 2012-02-21T14:51:23Z For example, the sales of orange juice rise two percent with each degree colder it gets, while mousetraps sell 25 percent more with each one degree colder in temperature. Warm Winter Casts Shadow on Profits 2012-02-02T12:38:00Z Therefore, either you have the whole night safe or, going home now, you go into a mousetrap, as the French say, and your papers are the cheese to lure you there. Parson Kelly 2012-01-28T03:00:30.303Z They are just kept as a kind o’ live mousetraps.” Shireen and her Friends Pages from the Life of a Persian Cat 2011-12-08T03:00:24.107Z Here you sit in this comer—do you know they've nicknamed it "the mousetrap" on your account? Contemporary One-Act Plays 2011-11-12T03:00:36.860Z “Keeping multiple technologies in play is very worthwhile for the U.S. in getting that cost-effective solution — and being able to increase the capabilities of technology because you keep everyone trying to get the better mousetrap.” U.S. Glossed Over Cancer Concerns Associated with Airport X-ray Scanners 2011-11-01T20:45:00.500Z Sales of orange juice rise two percent with each degree colder it gets, while mousetraps sell 25 percent more with each one degree colder in temperature. Warm Winter Casts Shadow on Profits 2012-02-02T12:38:00Z "I think," Miss Blossom had written, "that there must be a mouse in the pantry mousetrap by this time." Dandelion Cottage 2011-10-29T02:00:16.960Z If our goal is simply to build a better mousetrap, the task of management becomes simply that of building it as efficiently as possible. Myth #8: Apple Just Builds A Better Mousetrap 2011-08-29T17:55:31Z While over his head swung doormats at one-and-eightpence, with penny mousetraps dangling from their corners. A Child of the Jago 2011-08-05T02:00:52.533Z Ralph Waldo Emerson is famous for a lot of good reasons, but he couldn’t be more wrong when he wrote “Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.” My Customers? 3 Most Valuable Learning Experiences 2011-07-14T19:36:01Z Bracing up Ralph Waldo Emerson's reputation by attributing to him literary mousetraps which he should have made, but didn't. The Roycroft Dictionary Concocted by Ali Baba and the Bunch on Rainy Days. 2011-07-02T02:00:10.980Z In the technology space, you simply must make better mousetraps rather than foist new contraptions on the market that do little to reinforce the virtues that once drove success. RIM's 'Apple Moment' 2011-06-30T14:08:38Z Building a better mousetrap is not good enough anymore. Myth #8: Apple Just Builds A Better Mousetrap 2011-08-29T17:55:31Z One bird was shot when flushed; the other was caught in a Museum Special mousetrap. Summer Birds From the Yucatan Peninsula 2011-06-21T02:00:27.783Z They saw in them only expensive "mousetraps," for whose bait they were to pay, while they were sure that the shrewd Indians would continue their outrages without coming dangerously near such easily avoided snares. The Story of Bacon's Rebellion 2011-06-16T02:00:14.737Z You are all sitting in a mousetrap now.” Did J.F.K. Lose Berlin? 2011-06-10T16:36:26Z If this is a better mousetrap, he would be in favor of it.” Square Feet: Historic Illinois Mall Seeks New Life as Main St. 2011-06-08T01:19:36Z That’s what I’m saying: the old mousetrap saw needs updating, if not fundamental change. Myth #8: Apple Just Builds A Better Mousetrap 2011-08-29T17:55:31Z When the news got about that Patti had been bitten by a mouse, enterprising makers and patentees of mousetraps approached her from all sides with specimens of their various mouse-catching contrivances. The Mapleson Memoirs, vol I 1848-1888 2011-05-20T02:00:28.363Z “It showed improvement and that there’s reason to continue looking for a better mousetrap.” Fetal Surgery Improves Spina Bifida Outcomes, Study Says 2011-02-09T23:34:43Z I was told in America that this man went to New York with only a few dollars in his pocket, and for some time earned a living by selling mousetraps. Jonathan and His Continent Rambles Through American Society 2010-12-20T17:12:16.420Z The Spartans began their final comeback with a fake punt early in the fourth quarter on a play called "mousetrap" - their second big special teams gadget of the season. Michigan State alone atop Big Ten after big rally 2010-10-25T00:39:00Z The underlying assumption is that if we build a better mousetrap, our sales department should be able to sell it. Myth #8: Apple Just Builds A Better Mousetrap 2011-08-29T17:55:31Z Suleman persisted, asking for the chance to "build a better mousetrap." D.C. Council hearing sums up election: Poor training and preparation 2010-10-09T01:32:00Z This is like debating whether to get a mousetrap when your home is sinking in quicksand. The jobs emergency 2010-08-09T18:45:00Z “We had a better mousetrap, but no business or marketing expertise,” Dr. Westbrook said. Unboxed: High-Tech Solutions to High-Cost Medical Care 2010-05-22T20:01:00Z A Fashion Show Where Candy Is Worn, Not Eaten Take 82 ambitious students, one adored art teacher, a few mousetraps, dozens of Capri-Sun juice pouches and 50,000 beads. At Fieldston?s Fashion Show, Anything but Fabric 2010-05-13T01:04:00Z At no cost to the family, she provided a high-powered vacuum cleaner, several mousetraps and cockroach bait, and taught them what to do. Baltimore takes a holistic approach to unhealthy housing 2010-04-06T04:00:00Z But that is home turf for the little-known regulator who has built a better mousetrap: an increasingly sophisticated computer database which is already helping the U.S. Philadelphia, where rogue traders dare not tread 2010-02-19T14:29:00Z When I got there I found that poor Tom was imprisoned in a mousetrap. Puss Junior and Robinson Crusoe To call him an Historian is to knight a Mandrake; ’tis to view him through a perspective, and, by that gross hyperbole, to give the reputation of an engineer to a maker of mousetraps. Calamities and Quarrels of Authors “And yet here I die in a mousetrap—with no more noise about it than my own squeaking,” answered he. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 4 (of 25) As for Gay’s future––I suppose he is likely to bring home anything from a mousetrap to a diamond tiara. The Gorgeous Girl An effectual mousetrap may be made in the following manner. The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families A wiry, white-faced man with a little waxed moustache like the springs of a mousetrap climbed on the front seat, while burly people heaved quantities of corded trunks on behind. Rosinante to the Road Again In northern New Mexico I found one species so common in the corn-field that I could catch two or three every night with a few mousetraps. Wild Animals at Home I—I was dreaming that I was caught in a trap, a—a mousetrap, I think it was. Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905 Don't stop to pet them now, but fetch me the mousetrap. Dramatic Reader for Lower Grades Pirates will copy the song, the mousetrap, the drug formula, the brand. The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind It's probably not much more than a better mousetrap, but you want to believe it is, don't you? My Shipmate—Columbus Besides these, he added a mousetrap, a bow with quiver and arrows, and some left-over items which he carried in his hand: a corn-cutting sickle, a saber’s sheath, and a shotgun barrel. Travel Tales in the Promised Land (Palestine) And you know they say if a man makes a better mousetrap the world will come to his door. Northern Nut Growers Association Incorporated 39th Annual Report at Norris, Tenn. September 13-15 1948 The queen vowed he should be guillotined; but while the guillotine was getting ready, he was secured once more in a mousetrap. Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes You want drugs that cure terrible diseases, and designs for more fuel-efficient stoves, and useful little doodads, like mousetraps, or Post-it notes, or solar- powered backscratchers. The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind Sweet old Grandma Sheldon, who would not have harmed a fly and hated to see even a mousetrap set, simply revelled in the newspaper accounts of murders. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922 The patrol had not been out twenty minutes before it fearfully decided it had better ditch this boy lieutenant who, with each step, sounded as if he were setting off a room full of mousetraps. I Was a Teen-Age Secret Weapon Then there were several pocket mirrors and hand mirrors; half a dozen mousetraps; a package of matches; some funny masks, and a plaster cast of "Mercury." Marjorie's Busy Days He's right," said the doctor; "we are here in a sort of mousetrap, with scarcely enough space for working the brig, and if we are forced to winter in the strait!... The English at the North Pole Part I of the Adventures of Captain Hatteras I can read all about your mousetrap but I am still forbidden from using it. The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind I won or lost on the validity of my logic—and whether I'd built a better mousetrap. Question of Comfort And as long as everybody is bearing witness, I might as well do the same, as the cat said when she got caught in the mousetrap. The Wrong Woman "I believe she's equal to catching one of them in a mousetrap if she gets the opportunity!" The Princess of the School “Come now, that won’t do; we don’t want you meddling now, old mousetrap,” said the birds; “none of your night-birds here.” Featherland How the Birds lived at Greenlawn "I don't understand," said old dog Spot to Miss Kitty Cat one day, "why Mrs. Green wants to keep you around the house when she can buy mousetraps at the village." The Tale of Miss Kitty Cat Slumber-Town Tales It is one thing to say that the mousetrap is not there by accident. George Bernard Shaw The White Knight who carried about a mousetrap, lest he be troubled with mice upon his journeys, was not unlike those who anticipate their burdens. Cheerfulness as a Life Power Violet also probably understood that she had not now been caught in a mousetrap. Phineas Finn The Irish Member It was by this pass that Charles VIII. in 1495 returned from Tuscany, when the army of the League was drawn up waiting to intercept and crush him in the mousetrap of Fornovo. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series If anybody wished to see Miss Kitty Cat turn up her nose he had only to mention mousetraps. The Tale of Miss Kitty Cat Slumber-Town Tales But don't you bring any porter or mousetrap seller. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12 The Welshman, he loved toasted cheese, And made his mouth like a mousetrap. The Complete Book of Cheese I suppose there is nothing cold—" "Not enough, sir, in all the 'ouse to bait a mousetrap. At a Winter's Fire When the third mouse had been caught, the kitten shivered all over at the sight of the mousetrap and its inmate, and scratched Praskovya's hand. The Cook's Wedding and Other Stories But a mousetrap," Spot objected, "is little or no care. The Tale of Miss Kitty Cat Slumber-Town Tales What the diavolo did you want to go and poke your nose into such a mousetrap for? A Roman Singer He can p-l-o-w a field, milk a cow, mind childer, and make nearly every thing from a bird cage, a mousetrap, or a snuff box, to a coffin. Duty, and other Irish Comedies "For," quoth he "in this village the famine's so great That there's not enough left e'en a mousetrap to bait." The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 271, September 1, 1827 Then he asked someone to lend him a mousetrap, and with the cheese rinds that he begged from the neighbors, the trap was kept set and ready inside the chest. The Life of Lazarillo of Tormes; his fortunes and misfortunes as told by himself "There never was a mousetrap made that could drive a cow." The Tale of Miss Kitty Cat Slumber-Town Tales Trina burst in upon her mother while the latter was setting a mousetrap in the kitchen. McTeague He can plow a field, milk a cow, mind childer, and make nearly everythin' from a bird cage, a mousetrap, or a snuff box, to a coffin. Duty, and other Irish Comedies "Most any kind," she said loftily, "except that kind you put in mousetraps." Amarilly of Clothes-line Alley Kathiapur was a sort of mousetrap; the brutes came out by twos and three, just as I said they would, for the better part of three days. The Bronze Bell I shall build no tower of Babel, but I shall tempt the Powers into my mousetrap, and send them to the Powers below, the subterranean ones, so that they can be neutralised. The Road to Damascus Mrs. Sieppe set down the mousetrap with such violence that it sprung with a sharp snap. McTeague And I knew that mousetrap was there, and I never touched a scrap of it. The Wishing-Ring Man To call him an historian is to knight a mandrake; 'tis to view him through a perspective, and by that gross hyperbole to give the reputation of an engineer to a maker of mousetraps. Character Writings of the 17th Century They are shaped like a wire mousetrap; so that when the lobsters once enter them, they cannot get out again. The Book of Household Management Like the country mouse, that had tasted a little of urban manners, I long to be nibbling my own cheese by my dear self without mousetraps and time-traps. The Best Letters of Charles Lamb His face was calm and unchanged as when setting a mousetrap. The Arctic Prairies : a Canoe-Journey of 2,000 Miles in Search of the Caribou; Being the Account of a Voyage to the Region North of Aylemer Lake She then went to look into the mousetrap, where she found six mice, all alive. Types of Children's Literature I have bought three mousetraps, and catch twenty-five mice a day and carry them away to the copse. Letters of Anton Chekhov But on the next page, in case the mousetrap doesn't catch the cheese by the tail and make it squeal, I'll tell you about Mr. Twistytail's lost hat. Curly and Floppy Twistytail; the Funny Piggie Boys It will use your patriotic blatherskite and balderdash to get parliamentary powers over you as cynically as it would bait a mousetrap with toasted cheese. John Bull's Other Island "A mousetrap is set, for the cats remain at home, and are hungry for their prey." Henry VIII and His Court "Now fetch me the mousetrap out of the pantry, my dear." The Junior Classics — Volume 1 It is a piece of cheese—a piece of cheese in a mousetrap, and we are the little mice. Captain Blood "Do you know, Merle," said Gerard as they reached the chateau, "that this place looks to me like a mousetrap?" The Chouans "Yes, madame, he has just come up from the 'mousetrap.'" Scenes from a Courtesan's Life When a boy, I have known twenty in a morning caught with snap mousetraps, baited with tallow or suet. The Natural History of Selborne "I think we are all taken prisoners, except Aramis, and that our chances of getting out are lessened since one more of us is caught in Mazarin's mousetrap." Twenty Years After In the meantime, the mousetrap continued in operation, and likewise d'Artagnan's vigilance. The Three Musketeers To the left is the "mousetrap," to the right the prison gates. Scenes from a Courtesan's Life Above the "mousetraps" is an inner guardroom with a window commanding the court of the Conciergerie; this is used by the gendarmerie of the department, and the stairs lead up to it. Scenes from a Courtesan's Life The invention of the mousetrap does not date from our days; as soon as societies, in forming, had invented any kind of police, that police invented mousetraps. The Three Musketeers He then went straight to the door and knocked, murmuring, "I will go myself and be caught in the mousetrap, but woe be to the cats that shall pounce upon such a mouse!" The Three Musketeers The door was instantly opened and shut; someone was taken in the mousetrap. The Three Musketeers The apartment of M. Bonacieux, then, became a mousetrap; and whoever appeared there was taken and interrogated by the cardinal's people. The Three Musketeers |
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