fish-line

• “It was Sunday morning, so that the crew, except for working the ship, had its time to itself, and soon the carpenter, with a rope for a fish-line and a great iron hook baited with a chunk of salt pork the size of my head, captured first one, and then the other, of the monsters.”

  CHAPTER XXIII

• “The primary sound is produced by a bow of nylon fish-line, which is rosined, and that's just threaded under the piano string and across it.”

  Boing Boing

• “I admired his sullen face, the mechanism of his jaw, and then I saw that from his lower lip — if you could call it a lip — grim, wet, and weaponlike, hung five old pieces of fish-line, or four, and a wire leader with the swivel still attached, with all their five big hooks grown firmly in his mouth.”

  rainbow, rainbow, rainbow! : Rigoberto González : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation

• “Mr. Paradise had left his automobile back some way on the road and had walked to the place where he was accustomed to sit almost every day, holding an unbaited fish-line in the water while he stared at the river passing in front of him.”

  AGoodManIsHardToFindAndOtherStories

• “Her only fear was lest she be entangled in the fish-line.”

  The Moving Picture Girls at Oak Farm or, Queer Happenings While Taking Rural Plays

• “Strung on a fish-line hanging from a spike were a half-dozen swordfish darts.”

  Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good

• “Thus Mr.. Bobbsey cried to the small twin, and thus Mr. Bobbsey also warned his son, who had pulled up his pole with a jerk, when he felt a nibble on the fish-line.”

  The Bobbsey Twins on a Houseboat

• “They had no fish-line and tackle, but they caught fish in the lake.”

  Bird Stories

• “Bless my fish-line, that's so!" agreed Mr. Damon.”

  Tom Swift and His Electric Rifle; or, Daring Adventures in Elephant Land

• “So I took my fish-line and sat still as a mouse, while he looked up and down the river, and whistled to himself -- when he got a good idea, I guess, for after he'd whistled some, he'd let the boat drift and make marks in his sketch-book.”

  W. A. G.'s Tale

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