fishing-rod

The eyes turned, the hands checked the anchored fishing-rod, returned to the bread.

EXCLUSIVE EXCERPT 1/5: The Bookman by Lavie Tidhar 2009

It occurred to him that Gilgamesh's fishing-rod, too, was missing.

EXCLUSIVE EXCERPT 5/5: The Bookman by Lavie Tidhar 2009

It looked enough like a fishing-rod at a distance to fool the guards, and anyone could come down to the docks to augment his dinner with a little fish, if he chose.

Tran Siberian Michael J. Solender 2010

Therefore, any calm person, who is not blind or idiotic, can see that in the old Oolitic Silurian Period, must a million years ago next November, the Lower Mississippi River was upward of one million three hundred thousand miles long, and stuck out over the Gulf of Mexico like a fishing-rod.

The ozone hole and the law of unintended consequences 2010

-- W.en Chuck Bidwell and Jennifer Guarino took over J.W. Hulme Co. a few years ago, their plan was to transform the tiny maker of duck-hunting gear and fishing-rod bags into a luxury luggage company.

On Front Lines of Debt Crisis, Luggage Maker Fights for Life 2009

I gave him a sound cuff, Alan; but the next moment was sorry, and, to make amends, yielded possession of the fishing-rod for the rest of the evening, he undertaking to bring me home a dish of trouts for my supper, in atonement for his offences.

Redgauntlet 2008

His walks were devoted to the most solitary recesses among the neighbouring woods and hills — his fishing-rod was often left behind him, or carried merely as an apology for sauntering slowly by the banks of some little brooklet — and his success so indifferent, that Meg said the piper of

Saint Ronan's Well 2008

The old-established carrier of the place brought his fishing-rod and travelling-trunk, with a letter to Meg, dated a week previously, desiring her to prepare to receive an old acquaintance.

Saint Ronan's Well 2008

Amongst the more important of these is a fishing station on the coast, where, by certain improved modes of erecting snares, opening at the advance of the tide, and shutting at the reflux, many more fish are taken than can be destroyed by those who, like the men of Broken-burn, use only the boat-net and spear, or fishing-rod.

Redgauntlet 2008

I mentioned in my last, that having abandoned my fishing-rod as an unprofitable implement, I crossed over the open downs which divided me from the margin of the Solway.

Redgauntlet 2008