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Stickleback is about as unscary as fish get - little guys about an inch or two long.
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Trophy Stickleback:. 12-ounce haul lands Norway angler over $900 | Field & Stream
Trophy Stickleback: .12-ounce haul lands Norway angler over $900 Dave Hurteau 2006
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Trophy Stickleback:. 12-ounce haul lands Norway angler over $900
Trophy Stickleback: .12-ounce haul lands Norway angler over $900 Dave Hurteau 2006
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Trophy Stickleback:. 12-ounce haul lands Norway angler over $900
Trophy Stickleback: .12-ounce haul lands Norway angler over $900 Dave Hurteau 2006
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“Stickleback,” he said, extracting the fish from the net and tossing it in the kettle.
To Say Nothing of the Dog Willis, Connie 1997
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"I have devoted much time to the study of the fine arts -- I have seen many statues -- I have frequently been in sculptors 'studios; I prefer Stickleback to Canova."
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 342, April, 1844 Various
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Stickleback has often told me, that Chantrey was not altogether without merit -- I myself pronounce Macauley far from stupid; and my intellectual friend, young Sidsby, who will read us the first act of his tragedy to-night, allows a very respectable degree of dramatic power to Lord Byron.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 342, April, 1844 Various
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-- "Here," continued Mr Pitskiver, "give me the cord," and so saying he untwisted it in a moment -- down fell the side of the case, and to the astonished eyes of the assembled critics, and also of the party in the back drawing-room, revealed, not the masterpiece of the immortal Stickleback, but a female figure enveloped in a grey silk cloak, and covering its face with a white muslin handkerchief.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 342, April, 1844 Various
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"And you, my dear Stickleback, the greatest sculptor the world has ever seen!" exclaimed the easily propitiated critic.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 342, April, 1844 Various
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"Canova was by no means equal to Stickleback," said Mr Bristles magisterially.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 342, April, 1844 Various
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