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  • Silk fast, take the hackel of a Cock or Capons neck, or a Plovers top, which is usually better; take off the one side of the feather, and then take the hackel, Silk or

    The Compleat Angler 2007

  • I was ready to declare the waters uninhabited but no sooner had my brown hackel or professor settled lightly on the surface of the pool than out from among the air bubbles a fish appeared and seized the fly.

    The Black Wolf Pack Daniel Carter Beard 1895

  • Silver thred, make these fast at the bent of the hook (that is to say, below your arming), then you must take the hackel, the silver or gold thred, and work it up to the wings, shifting or stil removing your fingers as you turn the Silk about the hook: and still looking at every stop or turne that your gold, or what materials soever you make your

    The Complete Angler 1653 Izaak Walton 1638

  • Mr. _Barker_ commends severall sorts of the palmer flies, not only those rib'd with silver and gold, but others that have their bodies all made of black, or some with red, and a red hackel; you may also make the _hawthorn-flie_ which is all black and not big, but very smal, the smaller the better; or the

    The Complete Angler 1653 Izaak Walton 1638

  • "zone_info": "huffpost. politics/blog; politics = 1; nickname = dave-hackel; entry_id = 205594; @ypolitics = 1; bill-clinton = 1; bush = 1; clinton = 1; friel = 1; george-w-bush = 1; giuliani = 1; hannity = 1; obama-administration = 1; pelosi = 1; political-humor = 1; rove = 1; teleprompter = 1; ventura = 1; waterboarding = 1; wind = 1; zoology = 1",

    Dave Hackel: "The Hannitus" 2009

  • "zone_info": "huffpost. media/blog; media = 1; nickname = dave-hackel; entry_id = 190379; @ypolitics = 1; @yus-news = 1; cheney = 1; delay = 1; fox = 1; gingrich = 1; hannity = 1; rove = 1",

    Dave Hackel: Evil Bully Sits Down With Smug Sycophant 2009

  • "zone_info": "huffpost. media/blog; media = 1; nickname = dave-hackel; entry_id = 171947; @ypolitics = 1; @yus-news = 1; fox = 1; hannity = 1; limbaugh = 1; oreilly = 1; ticker = 1; time = 1",

    Dave Hackel: News Flash: Fox Stops Time! 2009

  • "zone_info": "huffpost. politics/blog; politics = 1; nickname = dave-hackel; entry_id = 191608; arianna-hufffington = 1; cheney = 1; geneva-conventions = 1; mccain = 1; obama = 1; spanish-inquisition = 1; torture = 1; waterboarding = 1",

    Dave Hackel: Torture Makes My Head Hurt 2009

  • "zone_info": "huffpost. media/blog; media = 1; nickname = dave-hackel; entry_id = 341696; carlson = 1; cheney = 1; dixie-chicks = 1; drudge = 1; ensign = 1; fox = 1; goldberg = 1; grassley = 1; hannity = 1; health-care-reform = 1; lieberman = 1; limbaugh = 1; oreilly = 1; obama = 1; polanski = 1; sanford = 1; shiavo = 1; vitter = 1",

    Dave Hackel: Huh? 2009

  • "zone_info": "huffpost. business/blog; business = 1; nickname = dave-hackel; entry_id = 176477; @ybusiness = 1; @yus-news = 1; aig = 1; bailouts = 1; economy = 1; investing = 1; tax-dollars = 1",

    Dave Hackel: A. I. Gee Whiz, Give Me A ****ing Break! 2009

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