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Definition of Snared
1. snare [v] - See also: snare
Lexicographical Neighbors of Snared
Literary usage of Snared
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Father and Son: Biographical Recollections by Edmund Gosse (1907)
"... irritating to his hapless correspondent, who was now "snared" indeed, limed
by the pen like a bird by the feet, and could not by any means escape. ..."
2. Yashka, My Life as Peasant, Officer and Exile by Isaac Don Levine (1919)
"CHAPTER IV snared BY A LIBERTINE GOVERNOR MAY had come. The Lena had opened and
become navigable. The heavy iron doors of the prison were unlocked and ..."
3. Time Flies: A Reading Diary by Christina Georgina Rossetti (1902)
"... daily walk: An apple cankered on its stalk, A robin snared for all his wings,
A voice that sang but never sings; Yea, sight or sound or silence stings. ..."
4. The Patriarchs and Lawgivers of the Old Testament: A Series of Sermons by Frederick Denison Maurice (1867)
"... of their gods shall ye burn with fire: thou shalt not desire the silver or
gold that is on them, nor take it unto thee, lest thou be snared therein ..."