fish-hooks

I haven't seen a pearl-shell fish-hook in years, but I swear that Kalakaua accumulated ten thousand of them, to say nothing of human jaw-bone fish-hooks, and feather cloaks, and capes and helmets, and stone adzes, and poi-pounders of phallic design.

SHIN-BONES 2010

But the chiefs still practised the old ways, the custom of hunakele, and hid the bones of the aliis where no men should find them and make fish-hooks of their jaws or arrow heads of their long bones for the slaying of little mice in sport.

THE BONES OF KAHEKILI 2010

There were trade watches, clasp knives, amazing assortments of fish-hooks in packages, plug tobacco, matches, and gorgeous strips of cotton for loincloths all around.

Bunches of Knuckles 2010

And in this cache would be ammunition for his empty gun, fish-hooks and lines, a small net — all the utilities for the killing and snaring of food.

LOVE OF LIFE 2010

And in this cache would be ammunition for his empty gun, fish-hooks and lines, a small net -- all the utilities for the killing and snaring of food.

LOVE OF LIFE 2010

He enlarged on the incomparable virtues of rifles, axes, and steel fish-hooks, down through needles, thread and cotton fish-lines to white flour and kerosene oil.

THE FEATHERS OF THE SUN 2010

He was about forty, and his fine head of blond hair, which he'd taken care not to disturb in removing the hood, was artfully dressed in the style they used to call windswept; that, and the elegance of his duds, were in obscene contrast to the bloated face, but it was the eyes that told me my first impression had been right in the bull: they were bold, blue, smiling, and amiable as fish-hooks.

THE NUMBERS 2010

Many of them, oddly enough, had fish-hooks in their mouths and guts.

Gulf Oil Spill: The Plight of the Sea Turtles 2010

The darts themselves look like straightened fish-hooks about half an inch long attached to a tapered cylinder of metal with wires leading from the end of it.

Did ya know . . . ? 2007

But on the lines of your argument you must believe that even the comrades of Menelaus were magicians; for they, according to the great poet, averted starvation at the isle of Pharos by their use of curved fish-hooks.

The Defense Apuleius 2008