fishing-rods

Of guns, dogs, fishing-rods, flies, and means of sport by sea and land, we have enough and to spare: you cannot pitch on an amusement, but we will pitch on the means of pursuing it.

The Tapestried Chamber 2008

Of guns, dogs, fishing-rods, flies, and means of sport by sea and land, we have enough and to spare: you cannot pitch on an amusement, but we will pitch on the means of pursuing it.

The Tapestried Chamber 2008

Some of his clothes, papers, handkerchiefs, whips and caps, fishing-rods and sporting gear, were still there.

Vanity Fair 2006

Then the beauty of life and of the summer would keep thee from thy couch, and wandering away from Syracuse by the sandhills and the sea, thou wouldst watch the low cabin, roofed with grass, where the fishing-rods of reed were leaning against the door, while the Mediterranean floated up her waves, and filled the waste with sound.

Letters to Dead Authors 2006

The water appeared to be full of fish, and Pencroft resolved to make some fishing-rods, so as to try and catch some.

The Mysterious Island 2005

The water appeared to be full of fish, and Pencroft resolved to make some fishing-rods, so as to try and catch some.

The Mysterious Island 2005

Scotch, hung the more valued weapons of silvan war, cross-bows, guns of various device and construction, nets, fishing-rods, otter-spears, hunting-poles, with many other singular devices, and engines for taking or killing game.

Rob Roy 2005

Two or three fishing-rods for the burn, much damaged by weather; some sea-lines on a dry shelf of rock; a couple of wooden boxes; a pile of driftwood for fires, and a heap of quartz in which we thought we had found veins of gold — such was the modest furnishing of our den.

Prester John 2005

A musket, a spear, some fishing-rods, and a buffalo yoke hung against the wall of the reception room.

The Golden Chersonese and the way thither Isabella Lucy 2004

There was lawn-tennis, and fishing-rods, — which nobody used, — and better still, long shady secluded walks in which gentlemen might stroll, — and ladies too, if they were kind enough.

The Duke's Children 2004