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  • Boats are hauled up upon it, ropes are coiled all over it; lobster-pots, nets, masts, oars, spars, sails, ballast, and rickety capstans, make a perfect labyrinth of it.

    Reprinted Pieces 2007

  • She was high up on the side of the harbour, overlooking the boats and jetties, the wharf piled with boxes and lobster-pots, and the little canning factory.

    Greenwitch Susan Cooper 2002

  • She was high up on the side of the harbour, overlooking the boats and jetties, the wharf piled with boxes and lobster-pots, and the little canning factory.

    Greenwitch Susan Cooper 2002

  • She was high up on the side of the harbour, overlooking the boats and jetties, the wharf piled with boxes and lobster-pots, and the little canning factory.

    Greenwitch Susan Cooper 2002

  • The fisher-boy taught them how to set lobster-pots, too, in the right places.

    The Adventurous Four Again Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1973

  • The whole outfit, including the lobster-pots, cost them twenty-five pounds.

    Impressions of a War Correspondent George Lynch

  • They have enormous lobster-pots, 6 feet to 8 feet in diameter, made of matting woven with split bamboo, in patterns something like the seats of our chairs.

    Southern Arabia Mabel Bent

  • Born of a poor Cape family, but with a dislike for fish-seines and lobster-pots, he had turned his attention from the first to the summer visitors, even in his youth beginning to flock to the old-fashioned ports of the Cape.

    Cap'n Abe, Storekeeper James A. Cooper

  • Here there was much small traffic in dingies and dories and lobster-pots; the slower tides rocked the little craft at the moorings, and sent bright swinging light against the weather-worn planks under the pier.

    The Heart of Rachael Kathleen Thompson Norris 1923

  • Mr. Wadreds nodded and went on his way, "I won't mind, and I'd just as soon not have to handle any dogfish that swallow lobster-pots as a habit, but if I do I'll come to you for help."

    The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries Francis Rolt-Wheeler 1918

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