piscatorial

• Anticipation mounted as the catch grew ever closer and suddenly the water frothed with piscatorial fervor as the fishermen secured the bag in the hole.
• Phil is thinking about a galaxy, while Henry is going for something more piscatorial, in the best tradition of scientific tattoos. —  Cosmic Variance
• Such piscatorial oratory is Satan cunning in. —  The Biglow Papers
• This popular codger is of the rubicund and jovial sort, and has long been known as a piscatorial pedestrian on the banks of the Wye. —  Yesterdays with Authors
• Later on Camoens wrote fifteen eclogues, four of which are piscatorial, and in one, a dialogue between a shepherd and a fisherman, refers in the following terms to Sannazzaro O pescador Sincero, que amansado Tém o pégo de Prochyta co' o canto Por as sonoras ondas compassado D'este seguindo o som, que póde tanto E misturando o antigo Mantuano Façamos novo estylo, novo espanto Whereas in the case of the verse pastoral the Italian fashion passed from Spain into Portugal, exactly the reverse process took place with regard to the prose romance more or less directly founded upon Sannazzaro. —  Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration Stage in England

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