Recreations of a Sportsman on the Pacific CoastG.P. Putnam's Sons, 1910 - 399 Seiten |
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... deep sea . Swordfishes had been seen for a week . Occa- sionally a long slender form glistened in the air , a dazzling spectacle as it fell with a re- sounding crash ; and one day , as we lay off a diminutive replica of the Grand Cañon ...
... deep sea . Swordfishes had been seen for a week . Occa- sionally a long slender form glistened in the air , a dazzling spectacle as it fell with a re- sounding crash ; and one day , as we lay off a diminutive replica of the Grand Cañon ...
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... deep labradorite blue , which seemed to assimilate with the enchanting hue of the water . Once , or twice , it was supposed the swordfish charged the bait ; but it was not hooked , and it seemed to have a bored appearance as it turned ...
... deep labradorite blue , which seemed to assimilate with the enchanting hue of the water . Once , or twice , it was supposed the swordfish charged the bait ; but it was not hooked , and it seemed to have a bored appearance as it turned ...
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... deep sea . It seemed practically impossible for a sword- fish nine or ten feet long to swim here without continually impaling these garlands of the ocean , or picking them up on its sword in pas- sive carte or tierce . Deep in the blue ...
... deep sea . It seemed practically impossible for a sword- fish nine or ten feet long to swim here without continually impaling these garlands of the ocean , or picking them up on its sword in pas- sive carte or tierce . Deep in the blue ...
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... deep abyss . It was discovered only in recent years by white men , filled with water , a lake in a crater , six miles long , four miles wide , and nearly half a mile deep , with walls rising pre- cipitously from it one thousand feet ...
... deep abyss . It was discovered only in recent years by white men , filled with water , a lake in a crater , six miles long , four miles wide , and nearly half a mile deep , with walls rising pre- cipitously from it one thousand feet ...
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... deep and silent forest . For an hour the road is among the trees . Suddenly they open up , and a splen- did vista of mountains , range after range , reaches away , the cañons filled with blue diaphanous haze that Monet paints , and deep ...
... deep and silent forest . For an hour the road is among the trees . Suddenly they open up , and a splen- did vista of mountains , range after range , reaches away , the cañons filled with blue diaphanous haze that Monet paints , and deep ...
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angler angling Avalon bait beautiful blue boat boatman cactus cactus forest California cañon cast catch caught chariot chariot races Clancy coast color crater Crater Lake dashed deep delight doubtless dropped Feather Feather River fifty feet fight fins flying fish friars game fish giant Gifford Pinchot green head hooked horse hundred feet Indians island José Klamath Klamath Falls lake land launch leap light little river look Mazama Mexican Joe miles mission mountains night orcas Pinchot play pounds race rainbow rainbow trout range reached region Rio Yaqui rising rush salmon San Clemente seemed seen shark shore side Sierra Nevada skiff slopes slowly snow splendid sport stopped story strange strike surface swordfish thousand tints to-day took towed trail trees trout stream Tuna Tuna Club twenty valley vineyard whale Williamson River Wimawita wind yellow yellowtail
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Seite 139 - Indeed, my good scholar, we may say of angling, as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries, " Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did :" and so, if I might be judge, " God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation, than angling.
Seite 22 - ... which broke their waves, and turned them into foam : and sometimes I beguiled time by viewing the harmless lambs, some leaping securely in the cool shade, whilst others sported themselves in the cheerful sun ; and saw others craving comfort from the swollen udders of their bleating dams. As I...
Seite 22 - I was last this way a-fishing ; and the birds in the adjoining grove seemed to have a friendly 149 contention with an echo, whose dead voice seemed to live in a hollow tree, near to the brow of that primrose hill. There I sat, viewing the silver streams glide silently towards their centre, the tempestuous sea ; yet sometimes...
Seite 23 - Twas a handsome milk-maid that had not yet attained so much age and wisdom as to load her mind with any fears of many things that will never be, as too many men too often do; but she cast away all care and sung like a nightingale. Her voice was good, and the ditty fitted for it: it was that smooth song which was made by Kit Marlow now at least fifty years ago. And the milk-maid's mother sung an answer to it which was made by Sir Walter Raleigh in his younger days.
Seite 184 - I have compylyd it in a greter uolume, of dyuerse bokys concernynge to gentyll and noble men, to the entent that the forsayd ydle persones whyche sholde haue but lytyll mesure in the sayd...
Seite 184 - And for by cause that this present treatyse sholde not come to the hondys of eche ydle persone whyche wolde desire it, yf it were...
Seite 22 - ... there I sat viewing the silver streams glide silently towards their centre, the tempestuous sea ; yet sometimes opposed by rugged roots, and pebble stones, which broke their waves, and turned them into foam ; and sometimes I beguiled time by viewing the harmless lambs, some leaping securely in the cool shade, whilst others sported themselves in the cheerful sun ; and saw others craving comfort from the swollen udders of their bleating dams.
Seite 36 - I seek the great lake in the top of the mountain to bathe in its limpid waters," he answered. "There would I also go and share your perils." "'tis well," answered Wimawita, "and I will reward your faith in me." Tsileu, inwardly raging, cast a look of hate upon them and sped northward through the land of the Klamaths. The next day Wimawita and Tculucul journeyed up the river. They came to a large lake and after some distance this gradually narrowed to a small but rapid stream. After a course of some...
Seite 44 - And he quench'd his thirst with two quarts of the first, To a pint of the latter, daily; Singing, "Oh, that a Dutchman's Draught could be As deep as the rolling Zuyder-Zee!
Seite 23 - I left this place, and entered into the next field, a second pleasure entertained me' 'twas a handsome milkmaid that had not yet attained so much age and wisdom as to load her mind with any fears of many things that will never be, as too many men too often do; but she cast away all care, and sung like a nightingale.