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  • Eeles out of this Mere, with sieves or sheets, and make a kind of Eele-cake of them, and eat it like as bread.

    The Compleat Angler 2007

  • New York-based artists Clifton Mallery and his wife Amnau Karam Eele charged in a suit filed on Thursday in Manhattan that 'Heroes' creators based their plot line -- about an artist who can paint the future -- on a short story, a painting series and a short film the couple exhibited in 2004 and 2005.

    Archive 2007-03-18 Bill Crider 2007

  • NY Daily News on august 5, 2004, the Hunter College NYC "Envoy" newspaper May 2005 and many other publications. most of these articles can be read online by googling "The Twins" names Enjai Eele or Amnau Eele.

    Heroes Season 2 Officially Sucks 2007

  • And this Eele of which I have said so much to you, may be caught with divers kinds of baits; as namely, with powdered

    The Compleat Angler 2007

  • Pikes being by the most and choicest palates observed to be the best meat; but contrary, the Eele is observed to be the better for age and bigness.

    The Compleat Angler 2007

  • Well, being I have now rested my self a little, I will make you some requital, by telling you some observations of the Eele, for it rains still, and (as you say) our Angles are as money put to use, that thrive when we play.

    The Compleat Angler 2007

  • Eele and Swallow do, as not being able to endure winter weather; for Gesner quotes Albertus to say, that in the yeer 1125 (that years winter being more cold then usual) Eeles did by natures instinct get out of the water into a stack of hay in a Meadow upon dry ground, and there bedded themselves, but yet at last died there.

    The Compleat Angler 2007

  • Eeles, as the Silver – Eele, and green or greenish Eel (with which the River of Thames abounds, and are called Gregs); and a blackish Eele, whose head is more flat and bigger then ordinary Eeles; and also an Eele whose fins are redish, and but seldome taken in this Nation (and yet taken sometimes): These several kinds of

    The Compleat Angler 2007

  • It is agreed by most men, that the Eele is both a good and a most daintie fish; but most men differ about his breeding; some say, they breed by generation as other fish do; and others, that they breed (as some worms do) out of the putrifaction of the earth, and divers other waies; those that denie them to breed by generation, as other fish do, ask, if any man ever saw an

    The Compleat Angler 2007

  • Eeles, are (say some) diversly bred; as namely, out of the corruption of the earth, and by dew, and other wayes (as I have said to you:) and yet it is affirmed by some, that for a certain, the Silver – Eele breeds by generation, but not by

    The Compleat Angler 2007

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