conger

• The crew called him a conger, a priest, and a porpoise Eugenius. —  Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection
• You're obliged to have a single line for a conger, with a wire-snooded hook and swivels, big hooks bound with wire, something like this here As he spoke he held out the hook, just finished as to its binding on And what's that for?" —  Menhardoc
• Him and me got all the big uns; and it's no joke ketching your first conger, as p'r'aps you know CHAPTER TWENTY FIVE A CORNISH GALE; AND DICK TEMPLE TAKES HIS FIRST LESSON IN WIND It can rain in Cornwall, and when it does rain it rains with all its might. —  Menhardoc
• I prophesy he'll spoil the whole affair; he has a worm in his head as long as a conger, a brain so barren of all sense, and yet so fruitful of foolish plots, that if he does not all things his own way, yet at least he'll ever be mingling his designs with yours, and go halves with you; so that, what with his ignorance, what with his plotting, he'll be sure to ruin you with an intention to serve you. —  The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 04
• At a later period the conger was not eaten from its being supposed to produce the plague. —  Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period

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