...In a town, he thought every second person a decoy, and every third house a place in which seamen would be drugged and murdered...
Robert Louis Stevenson 「Kidnapped」
...Unwilling to abandon him, bound to him by the chains of shame and hope, yet she would not be a decoy, nor, at his bidding, lure me to death...
Anthony Hope 「The Prisoner of Zenda」
...It is now said, however, that through the efforts of a recentlyorganized bird-lovers' society in Italy, the blindingof decoy birds for roccolos is to be stopped...
William T. Hornaday 「Our Vanishing Wild Life」
...She was a most accomplished decoy, andevinced the utmost relish for the sport...
J. Emerson Tennent 「Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon」
...Do not dismount from the horse when placing the decoy...
A. R. (Arthur Robert) Harding 「Wolf and Coyote Trapping」
...Another successful mode of setting is to place the trap in a trail where it leads through a clump of sage or greasewood and put some decoy by the side of the trail a rod or two away...
A. R. (Arthur Robert) Harding 「Wolf and Coyote Trapping」
...He next extends his hand to them, and caresses them also, at thesame time giving them plenty of his decoy balls to lick...
George Vasey 「Delineations of the Ox Tribe」
...For a thoroughly exhaustive and interesting articleon decoy ponds, see Folkard's "Wild Fowler," pp...
Montagu Browne 「Practical Taxidermy」
...Sheep's lights thrown on the water isanother good decoy for gulls...
Montagu Browne 「Practical Taxidermy」
..." To practise itsuccessfully the sportsman requires simply the services of a dog,which he uses in a similar way to that of a "piper," employed atan English decoy...
Montagu Browne 「Practical Taxidermy」
...The site of his once famous decoy was nowdrained, and in summer ruddy corn wavedabove it...
Anonymous 「The Confessions of a Poacher」
...We invariably used a decoy,and when the wild birds were brought down,and came within the workings of the net, itwas rapidly pulled over and the game secured...
Anonymous 「The Confessions of a Poacher」
...The decoy dropped with asplash, and in the darkness the thief got away—justvanished, like a shadow, without a sound...
William J. Long 「Ways of Wood Folk」
...Then I realized what a mistake I hadmade in killing Blanca, for by using her as a decoy I might havesecured him the next night...
Ernest Seton-Thompson 「Lobo, Rag and Vixen」
...But the dogs, baffled by thebreak in the trail, soon did the same, to find Vix hanging about indespair, vainly trying to decoy us away from her treasures...
Ernest Seton-Thompson 「Lobo, Rag and Vixen」
...I suppose that when an animal practices deception,as when a bird feigns lameness or a brokenwing to decoy you away from her nest or her young,it is quite unconscious of the act...
John Burroughs 「Ways of Nature」
...Finally, thesufferings of the little pig, whose squeals served to decoy thedemons from their lurking-places, are terminated by death, for itis killed and its carcase thrown away...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
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