trapes
Britishverb
Example Sentences
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The President maneuvered through Congressional bear trapes to get the U.S.'s first Pure Food bill.
From Time Magazine Archive
Since full each other station of renown, Who would not be the greatest trapes in town?
From The Poetical Works of Edward Young, Volume 2 by Young, Edward
It's not for what he did at the wars that the redcoats trapes after him.
From The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance by Caine, Hall, Sir
She would certainly have sent some trapes of a Muse to press you, had she known what good epigrams you write.
From The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 by Walpole, Horace
If a young man comes to the inn, I take care to trapes after her through the nasty damp meadows.’
From The Disentanglers by Lang, Andrew
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