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... away and slammed it back on the hook. "All right, smart boy! That's enough!" he growled, glaring ...

— Tom Swift and the Electronic Hydrolung • Victor Appleton

... the receiver on the hook, uttering a long-drawn sigh of relief. The arbiter of his ...

— The Yellow Claw • Sax Rohmer

... I will believe that it is so, since you have supposed it. This is as good a place as any, and here we will cast our lines; and there is so little wind stirring, that we shall only need to furl our sails, and the boat will remain at rest. Now then, here is your rod, nicely put together, with a fly on the hook. A pike will rise as quick at an artificial fly as at a live one; a greedy fish is that pike; and if we should have occasion, I have other kinds of bait. Take it, and throw your line out as I taught you before. But what are ...

— The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, May 1844 - Volume 23, Number 5 • Various

... king, as Li, after thanking the royal personage profusely, started out to try his new fins; "not so fast, my friend. Before you depart, perhaps I'd better give you a little friendly advice, else your new powers are likely to land you on the hook of some lucky fisherman, and you will find yourself served up as a prize of ...

— A Chinese Wonder Book • Norman Hinsdale Pitman

... said he, "with a piece of meat or minnow on the hook. Then I stick a stick down in the bank, two or three feet long, and take a half hitch around the top. It acts as a sort of rod and gives when the fish bites. He pulls down and swallows the bait, and the spring of the stick ...

— The Young Alaskans on the Missouri • Emerson Hough

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