collecting-net

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There was the boy with his glass jar and his collecting-net and the waves washing as he played on the sea-wall.

At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002
An unkempt but well-dressed boy, ten years old, maybe younger, lost in a private world with his glass jar and collecting-net.

At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002
There was the boy with his glass jar and his collecting-net and the waves washing as he played on the sea-wall.

At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002
An unkempt but well-dressed boy, ten years old, maybe younger, lost in a private world with his glass jar and collecting-net.

At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002
For twenty years he had worked hard, sometimes far into the night, and seven days a week, with microscope, scalpel, collecting-net, and pen, and almost entirely with reference to Pawkins.

The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories 1906