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  • Seven-Tricks at once made up his mind to steal the wonderful fishingrod, so he came back that evening and managed to abstract it, and next morning went fishing with it.

    Folklore of the Santal Parganas Cecil Henry Bompas

  • Probably, however, he would have done his duty, had the enemy landed, and, like Edie, might have remembered the “burns he dandered beside,” always with a fishingrod in his hand.

    The Antiquary 1584

  • Far better would it be for us who have adopted this accursed service to go back to our own houses, and there employ ourselves in pleasanter occupations — in hunting or fishing, for instance; for what squire in the world is there so poor as not to have a hack and a couple of greyhounds and a fishingrod to amuse himself with in his own village? "

    Don Quixote 2002

  • "burns he dandered beside," always with a fishingrod in his hand.

    The Antiquary — Complete Walter Scott 1801

  • "burns he dandered beside," always with a fishingrod in his hand.

    The Antiquary — Volume 01 Walter Scott 1801

  • Far better would it be for us who have adopted this accursed service to go back to our own houses, and there employ ourselves in pleasanter occupations -- in hunting or fishing, for instance; for what squire in the world is there so poor as not to have a hack and a couple of greyhounds and a fishingrod to amuse himself with in his own village? "

    Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 1581

  • Far better would it be for us who have adopted this accursed service to go back to our own houses, and there employ ourselves in pleasanter occupations -- in hunting or fishing, for instance; for what squire in the world is there so poor as not to have a hack and a couple of greyhounds and a fishingrod to amuse himself with in his own village? "

    The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, Part 21 Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 1581

  • Far better would it be for us who have adopted this accursed service to go back to our own houses, and there employ ourselves in pleasanter occupations -- in hunting or fishing, for instance; for what squire in the world is there so poor as not to have a hack and a couple of greyhounds and a fishingrod to amuse himself with in his own village? "

    The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, Complete Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 1581

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