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1 lay a trap
...he retorted quivering with rage but keeping himself in hand, for he felt she might be setting another trap. (E. M. Forster, ‘A Passage to India’, ch. XXVI) —...Филдинг старался держать себя в руках, боясь, что Адела ставит ему еще одну ловушку.
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