reel

• His personal choice for a reel is a Shimano TLD15; this reel retrieves about 21 ⁄ 2 feet of line per turn of the handle, doesn't have a crossbar on top to jam line when the spool is full, and has a smooth lever drag with adequate power for the 20-pound line class.
• For the reel is a high mystery--it is superior to all--it cannot be danced beyond the borders of Virginia--as the Seville orange of commerce loses its flavor, and is nothing. —  The Youth of Jefferson A Chronicle of College Scrapes at Williamsburg, in Virginia, A.D. 1764
• All of us watching some wry news-reel, the beam from the projector falling milky-white, thickening with smoke from briers and cheroots, Abdullas and Woodbines ... the lit profiles of military personnel and young ladies are the edges of clouds: the manly crepe of an overseas cap knifing forward into the darkened cinema, the shiny rounding of a silk leg tossed lazily toe-in between two seats in the row ahead, the keen-shadowed turbans of velvet and feathering eyelashes beneath. —  Gravity's Rainbow
• When I asked Files who might be available with the right qualifications, your reel was among a dozen that came back. " —  The Rebel Worlds
• For the reel is a high mystery -- it is superior to all -- it cannot be danced beyond the borders of Virginia -- as the Seville orange of commerce loses its flavor, and is nothing. —  The Youth of Jefferson A Chronicle of College Scrapes at Williamsburg, in Virginia, A.D. 1764

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