The Complete Angler: Or The Contemplative Man's RecreationWiley & Putnam, 1847 - 249 Seiten |
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Seite iii
... hair . He scorns to entrap by weir , or fyke , or wick- er - pot , the finny people , when not bent on harm ; but as they watch murderously for the pretty fly , the helpless minnow , or the half - drowned worm , he comes like a chi ...
... hair . He scorns to entrap by weir , or fyke , or wick- er - pot , the finny people , when not bent on harm ; but as they watch murderously for the pretty fly , the helpless minnow , or the half - drowned worm , he comes like a chi ...
Seite ix
... hair in making fishing lines ; képas then signifying hair , whence Kεpaσbaι , to be shaved . But this is not so , for they used horse hair , the best that of stallions , as the hair of mares ' tails is rendered brittle by their urine ...
... hair in making fishing lines ; képas then signifying hair , whence Kεpaσbaι , to be shaved . But this is not so , for they used horse hair , the best that of stallions , as the hair of mares ' tails is rendered brittle by their urine ...
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... hairs , And nets of various sorts and various shares , The seine , the cast - net , and the wicker maze , To waste the watery tribes a thousand ways ; A crazy boat was drawn up on a plank , Mats were their pillows , wov'n of osiers dank ...
... hairs , And nets of various sorts and various shares , The seine , the cast - net , and the wicker maze , To waste the watery tribes a thousand ways ; A crazy boat was drawn up on a plank , Mats were their pillows , wov'n of osiers dank ...
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... hair , And , flung upon the shore , his welcome prize Flounces awhile in death , and gasping dies .- ( 247-257 . ) Subit indicium is the original for the words italicised in my rough translation ; and , strange to say , I can find no ...
... hair , And , flung upon the shore , his welcome prize Flounces awhile in death , and gasping dies .- ( 247-257 . ) Subit indicium is the original for the words italicised in my rough translation ; and , strange to say , I can find no ...
Seite lxvi
... hairs at hook , whose collections and experiments were lost with himself . " These extracts show the spleen of Franck against our author ; and the fact of his having a conversation with him before the third edition of the Complete ...
... hairs at hook , whose collections and experiments were lost with himself . " These extracts show the spleen of Franck against our author ; and the fact of his having a conversation with him before the third edition of the Complete ...
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