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Examples
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"Angling is a $709 million business in this state," said Rep. Christine Johnson, D-Salt Lake City.
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The Rocky Mountain Angling Club also described in its last letter how an outfitter and his sugar daddy financier wheedled a lease from the group by promising untold riches to a landowner.
Water Greed Will Undo Flyfishing Tim Romano 2007
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They divided up, and each morning they fished alone, because as Lord Byron has said, "Angling is the solitary sport."
Sportsmen, Indeed? 1950
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Flie _in medio_, and a dark Flie for lightnesse: This is my experiment for this kind of Angling, which is the surest Angling of all, and killeth the greatest Fish: your Lines may be strong, but must be no longer than the Rod.
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The term 'sport' may be confined [88] conveniently to those subjects which have to do with animals, such as Angling, Coaching, Cock-fighting, Coursing, Falconry,
The Book-Hunter at Home P. B. M. Allan
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Once upon a time when there was no talk of changes, and no great demand for them, the fishing of the Thames district was the bulk of "Angling" in the columns of the _Field_ and _Bell's Life_, which then almost alone made a serious subject of fishing, and amongst the men who wrote were Greville F.,
Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler William Senior
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"Angling," says our revered St. Izaak, "angling is somewhat like poetry -- men are to be born so."
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'Angling' is an ugly word, and in Frances's case is not the right one.
The Touchstone of Fortune Charles Major 1884
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"Angling," says our revered St. Izaak, "angling is somewhat like poetry -- men are to be born so."
The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac Eugene Field 1872
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The hollow Reed, or Cane, such as Angling-Rods are made of, and Weavers use, we have great Plenty of, though none to the Northward of Fames-River in Virginia.
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