Malfort would want to see the gold; then his trap would spring.
If he'd stepped on the open space, a trap would have sprung as sure as the sun rose above the canopy.
Which he didn't want to do, because that might be right where the trap had sprung.
Not to mention what we do once the trap has sprung shut.
But it was too late; the trap sprung, and they were neatly in it.
As she did so, a rusty trap sprang shut, clamping her left foot.
Harvey wanted to be there when the trap sprang.
"Yet the trap sprang on them," the Thassa leader said.
Talika's code could still be false, and the trap would spring when someone used the frame.
When the trap sprang shut, he must be elsewhere and beyond suspicion.