fishing-nets

Airborne now, it opens up imaginatively with the idea of "blue nets" (not literal fishing-nets, I think, but impressions of the sky and the light-patterned water below).

Poem of the week: Pier by Vona Groarke 2010

The miller was busy spreading out his fishing-nets and lines.

Eve and David 2007

The miller was busy spreading out his fishing-nets and lines.

Eve and David 2007

“We have neither horses, cows, fishing-nets, nor implements; it is necessary first to buy everything, and then to look for income.”

The Kreutzer Sonata, and other stories 2003

A soldier led the donkey, and they set off, past the long, frail, hanging fishing-nets, that made long filmy festoons, into the lane.

The Plumed Serpent 2003

On the walls hung sabres, hunting-whips, nets for birds, fishing-nets, guns, elaborately carved powder-horns, gilded bits for horses, and tether-ropes with silver plates.

Taras Bulba 2003

On forked sticks stuck up on the foreshore, frail fishing-nets were hung out, drying, and on the nets a small bird sat facing the sun; he was red as a drop of new blood, from the arteries of the air.

The Plumed Serpent 2003

“We have neither horses, cows, fishing-nets, nor implements; it is necessary first to buy everything, and then to look for income.”

Ivan the Fool 2003

Hereabouts are grouped many fine trees, and among them a large number of the palms, whose supple fibers are used in the fabrication of hammocks and fishing-nets, and are the cause of some trade.

Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon 2003

He forgot things, and sometimes every word said to him sounded like the bar-bars of Scythians or Sarmatians; he smelled unidentifiable yet repellent odors, and endured fishing-nets coming down across his eyes to mar his vision, or would grow unbearably hot, or wonder where he was; his temper frayed, he imagined slights and insults.

The Grass Crown McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1991