grub's

He fishes it on a red 1/16-ounce light-wire Slider ball jighead ($8.50, pack of 20; basspro. com) with the hook point buried in the grub's body to protect against hanging in brushy cover.

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Count Tretar waited until he had seen the emperor lifted from the couch, placed among silken pillows on a gilded litter, and carried in a procession, moving at a coral grub's pace (so as not to disturb the royal equilibrium) toward the bedchamber.

The Hand of Chaos Hickman, Tracy 1993

You know the main part of the grub's aboard the other boat Think of those juicy hams floatin 'off down the Bushkill, with not a single tooth ever bein' put in 'em; and all that bread and stuff soaked.

The Banner Boy Scouts Afloat or, the Secret of Cedar Island George A. Warren

Honorable Judges, Ladies and Gentlemen: In defending the affirmative of this momentous question, I feel not the slightest hesitancy, for I am absolutely sure that I can convince -- nay, more than convince -- this most august and literary and also exceeding ugly charming audience that grub's not in it with lit for soothing the inner woman, or, in more concise and laconic rhetoric, the soul.

Pine Needles, 1921. No Author 1921

"But I'd take a lot of jerked elk, and everybody says grub's easy to get if you have money, I'd start with about nine ponies in my string, so it looks like I ought to get through?"

'Me--Smith' Caroline Lockhart 1916

Take HIM along, so I'll know my grub's safe, and I'll help you out.

The Winds of Chance Rex Ellingwood Beach 1913

"Guess you're up against it, but our grub's holding out."

The Intriguers Harold Bindloss 1905

McClellan's got this army trained, too, till it isn't any more like the rabble at Manassas than a grub's like a butterfly!

The Long Roll Mary Johnston 1903

"The grub's so damn bad at that Flora Hotel," snapped a weazened old man.

The Plunderer Henry Oyen 1902

We're hard worked, badly fed, badly paid -- not, mind you, that I'm finding fault with the treatment we're getting aboard here -- far from it -- the grub's good enough for anybody; and, as to work -- well, we haven't seen much of that yet.

The Missing Merchantman Harry Collingwood 1886