fishing-hooks

In every thing manufactured by them, there is an uncommon degree of neatness and ingenuity; and the elegant form and polish of some of their fishing-hooks could not be exceeded by any European artist, even if he should add all his knowledge in design to the number and convenience of his tools.

Narrative of the Voyages Round The World, Performed by Captain James Cook 2003

In every thing manufactured by them, there is an uncommon degree of neatness and ingenuity; and the elegant form and polish of some of their fishing-hooks could not be exceeded by any European artist, even if he should add all his knowledge in design to the number and convenience of his tools.

Narrative of the Voyages Round The World, Performed by Captain James Cook 2003

The Lascar had an old silver sword-guard, which he bartered for a few fishing-hooks.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 375, June 13, 1829 Various

The next morning the burghers, discovering that there were fish in the pool, but having no fishing-hooks, undressed and began to convert the water into a muddy mass, thus compelling the fish to come to the surface for air.

In the Shadow of Death P. H. Kritzinger

The broken hooks I found were fully as large; and so the little brook that now ripples down the valley, when a large stream, must have had a good many big fishes in it, or the stone-age fishermen would not have brought their fishing-hooks, and have lost them, along this remnant of a larger stream.

The Junior Classics — Volume 8 Animal and Nature Stories William Patten 1902

I tried to read, I tried to write, I paced about the lawn, I walked to the end of the lane, I put new flies upon my fishing-hooks, I began to index my father's library -- in a dozen ways I endeavoured to relieve the suspense which was becoming intolerable.

The Mystery of Cloomber Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

The lads here don't go out with the star, and they don't let anyone go into the choir, and once I saw in a shop window fishing-hooks for sale, fitted ready with the line and for all sorts of fish, awfully good ones, there was even one hook that would hold a forty-pound sheat-fish.

The Cook's Wedding and Other Stories Anton Pavlovich Chekhov 1882

The show-case is full of an incredible variety, as photograph albums, fishing-hooks, socks, suspenders, steel pens, cutlery of all sorts, and curious old colored prints of Adelaide, and Kate, and Ellen.

Suburban Sketches William Dean Howells 1878

For if they wanted a new Glengarry cap, or if they wanted to buy a book telling them of all kinds of tremendous adventures at sea, or if it became necessary to purchase some more fishing-hooks at the grocer's shop, it was their own small store of wealth they had to look to; and so it came about that a penny was something to be seriously considered.

The Beautiful Wretch; The Pupil of Aurelius; and The Four Macnicols William Black 1869

The broken hooks I found were fully as large; and so the little brook that now ripples down the valley, when a large stream, must have had a good many big fishes in it, or the stone-age fishermen would not have brought their fishing-hooks, and have lost them, along this remnant of a larger stream.

St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, V. 5, Nov 1877-Nov 1878 Scribner's Illustrated Various 1868