fishing-lines

And after this, he bade them look no more for shellfish; but take out the two fishing-lines which we had, and see if they could catch aught from some safe ledge on the further side of the hill upon which we had made our camp.

The Boats of the 'Glen Carrig' 2007

It was around these that he meant to stretch his lines, not snares, but real fishing-lines.

The Mysterious Island 2005

It was around these that he meant to stretch his lines, not snares, but real fishing-lines.

The Mysterious Island 2005

There they were to await his arrival, having also taken with them the dogs, their trifling stock of implements, as fishing-lines, etc., leaving nothing to our exile but his weapons, with which he grimly waited the appointed hour.

Ralph Rashleigh 2004

But he explained to the gins his wish of reaching the wreck and dispatched them along the shore to look for any timbers that might have floated in, while he laid together all the fishing-lines they possessed into cordage, for the purpose of tying and securing the timbers of a raft.

Ralph Rashleigh 2004

One man is making fishing-lines of a beautifully white and marvellously tenacious fibre, obtained from an Hawaiian

The Hawaiian Archipelago Isabella Lucy 2004

The floats of their fishing-lines, the wooden beaters used in tempering the clay for their pottery, their tobacco-boxes, and other household articles, are covered with carving of tasteful and often elegant design.

The Malay Archipelago 2004

The ripe fruit, green and insipid, was wont to be eaten by the blacks, bark from the branches was twisted into fishing-lines, that of the roots used for poisoning fish, while the leaves, heated over the fire until the oil exuded, were applied to bruised and aching parts of the body.

Tropic Days 2003

The whole place consisted of several thatched roofs, mud walls, side fences, bamboo lattice windows and pushing windows, out of which fishing-lines could be conveniently dropped.

Hung Lou Meng 2003

The sharks and the seamen in the boats maintained a constant struggle which should secure the greater share of the prey caught by the fishing-lines.

Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003