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Silent, stoical, battered-looking men with fishpoles.
A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago Ben Hecht 1929
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In other words, the odds against each of these strangely patient men watching the ends of their fishpoles -- the odds against their catching a fish -- are four hundred thousand to one.
A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago Ben Hecht 1929
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He pointed toward the two boys who sat with fishpoles in their hands on the weed-grown bank of the creek.
Triumph of the Egg, and Other Stories Sherwood Anderson 1908
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