Most-banged drum

Usage examples of snare.

The dexterity of the spies, whom he sent into the Gothic camp, allured the Barbarians into a fatal snare.

Navy is in your hands, but you must take command of their automated submerged platform, the Snare.

The evidence pointed to Amos Marle as the designer of the snare, with the invaders as fighters in his employ.

The Manichaan Christian, believing the soul to be imprisoned in matter by demons who fought against God in a previous life, struggled, by fasting, thought, prayer, and penance, to rescue the spirit from its fleshly entanglements, from all worldly snares and illusions, that it might be freed from the necessity of any further abode in a material body, and, on the dissolution of its present tabernacle, might soar to its native light in the blissful pleroma of eternal being.

It was strategically unsound, flashy but built out of pseudo traps tailored to snare potzers who thought they saw an unsuspected opening suitable for a quick kill.

Abruptly the orchestra ceased playing with a roll of the snare drum, a flourish of the cornet and a prolonged growl of the bass viol.

They would even frame little plans whereby she might better herself in life, and avoid the many snares and pitfalls that would beset her lonely path in the Quartier Latin when they were gone.

The fighters who had managed to snare each other were Gregg and Dave, with Sarge standing by as a bewildered umpire.

It would do for Sheff, that third snare of the triple trap, though Hobgood wished he had reserved it for The Shadow!

TV jumped to a 24-hour satellite starward of Terra and showed us the whole moonlit Earth backed by the Milky Way, as if snared by a diamond-dewy spiderweb.

From their corner came a medley of mellow sounds, the subdued chirps of the violins, the dull bourdon of the bass viol, the liquid gurgling of the flageolet and the deep-toned snarl of the big horn, with now and then a rasping stridulating of the snare drum.

Since Lady Inger has been simple enough to walk into the snare, Nils Sture will not make many difficulties.

Defenders would attack the testudo, attempting to smash it or set it on fire, or use grappling hooks and ropes to try to snare the ram itself.

Thy witty wiles to draw, and get The lark into the trammel net: Thou hast thy cockrood, and thy glade To take the precious pheasant made: Thy lime-twigs, snares, and pit-falls then To catch the pilfering birds, not men.

Three vials of the tears which daemons weep When virtuous spirits through the gate of Death Pass triumphing over the thorns of life, Sceptres and crowns, mitres and swords and snares, Trampling in scorn, like Him and Socrates.