"Pitfall" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... stutter. Without the slightest difficulty he leaped that pitfall of the drunken, ...
— The Heart of the Range • William Patterson White
... versification was cabined, his whole power of dramatic movement was scrupulously confined; conventional rules of every conceivable denomination hurried out to restrain his genius, with the alacrity of Lilliputians pegging down a Gulliver; wherever he turned he was met by a hiatus or a pitfall, a blind-alley or a mot bas. But his triumph was not simply the conquest of these refractory creatures; it was something much more astonishing. It was the creation, in spite of them, nay, by their very aid, ...
— Books and Characters - French and English • Lytton Strachey
... black eyes! But he is now a "fish out of water," and is about as helpless, nature never having intended him to be seen outside of his burrow—at least, in this present form. There he dwells, setting his circular trap at the mouth of his pitfall, and waiting for the voluntary sacrifice of his insect neighbors to ...
— My Studio Neighbors • William Hamilton Gibson
... as a moral pitfall is more potent in Hong Kong than in India or other Eastern lands possessing a sprinkling of Europeans. A newcomer's ears hear little but "chit." Every sentence uttered by friends, every proposal of obsequious native merchant, is freighted ...
— East of Suez - Ceylon, India, China and Japan • Frederic Courtland Penfield
... had so ruthlessly set a pitfall for his neighbor had suddenly tumbled into one which retributive justice had dug deep ...
— The Redemption of David Corson • Charles Frederic Goss
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