Lexicographical Neighbors of Trapanned
Literary usage of Trapanned
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cobbett's Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High ...by William Cobbett, David Jardine by William Cobbett, David Jardine (1812)
"... and consequently not so credible, especially if it can appear the witness has
trapanned the prisoner into the committing the crime ; then the witness ..."
2. Life and Writings of Thomas Paine by Thomas Paine, Daniel Edwin Wheeler (1908)
"in which you will one day or other be trapanned. Your retreat from Philadelphia,
was only a timely escape, and your next expedition may be less fortunate. ..."
3. The American Historical Review by American historical association (1904)
"But the rebellion he had hoped to aid was extinguished. He thought himself in
danger of assassination. He was n danger of being trapanned and taken to ..."
4. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register by Henry Fitz-Gilbert Waters (1878)
"Burnell and his lieutenant, of the Montgomery, privateer, trapanned on board an
English cutter in the ..."
5. The Transit of Civilization from England to America in the Seventeenth Century by Edward Eggleston (1901)
"... of these than of indentured servants known as " free-willers " who had embarked
of their own accord, and the " kids " who had been " trapanned " aboard ..."
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