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  • The Shoes of the Fisherman is also a book that stayed with me for years.

    The Origins of the Species 2007

  • Popeil's Pocket Fisherman is perhaps the most useless rod-and-reel combo in fishing history — a long-running joke among serious anglers — but thanks to the power of infomercials is still going strong.

    50 Great Lures by Field & Stream's John Merwin 2007

  • “O Commander of the Faithful, thy master the Fisherman is with the Chief Eunuch, dunning him for an hundred dinars.”

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • I have followed the example of Mr. Payne and have translated in its entirety the Tale of Khalifah the Fisherman from the Breslau Edit.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Commander of the Faithful, Khalif the Fisherman is become a King, and on him is a robe of honour worth a thousand dinars.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • And of a sudden this child held out her hand, and said, what would be in English, "Fisherman's daughter, here's a shell!"

    David Copperfield 1850

  • It wasn’t long before the fisherman referred to the miracle lozenge as their ‘friends’, and hence the name Fisherman’s Friend was created.

    Give A Friend A Chance - Fisherman's Friend Launch New Blackcurrant Flavour Thatsnews 2008

  • It wasn’t long before the fisherman referred to the miracle lozenge as their ‘friends’, and hence the name Fisherman’s Friend was created.

    Archive 2008-09-01 Thatsnews 2008

  • Then they knew that the Fisherman was a simpleton and served him till Abu al-Hasan came back with a dress of rich stuff and clad him therein; after which he brought him a handsome she-mule, ready saddled, and taking him by the hand, carried him forth of the bath and said to him, “Mount.”

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • "The King hath the name Fisherman, and lieth in languishment on account of two knights that have been at his castle and made not good demand.

    The High History of the Holy Graal Anonymous 1869

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