"Booby trap" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Among the prisoners were a few officers. In default of other suitable accommodation, one of them was allowed to live in a room at the Commandant's house. He displayed great anxiety lest somebody should touch the disused telephone or other wires, fire a booby trap possibly left behind by his kind friends, and so blow ...
— With the British Army in The Holy Land • Henry Osmond Lock
... "Booby trap!" he declared, and cautiously groped around to find out if he had incautiously touched a fine wire. At a radius of his extended arm he found nothing of that nature. Perhaps, after all, a sniper was concealed in the bushes on his left, for ...
— Wilmshurst of the Frontier Force • Percy F. Westerman |
