Hook: Is there other business? Lincoln: There is.

Hook was soon a successful and valuable writer of light pieces for the stage.

Hook was a disgraceful punster, and a successful one.

The bill-hook, called foice in Brazil, is a most valuable tool for clearing away small trees, vines, and under-growths.

During these periods, Sandy-Hook, of course, becomes an island.

Hook was its originator, and for a long time its main supporter.

The thick matted creepers too are a great nuisance, for which a bill-hook or sharp kookree is an invaluable adjunct to the other paraphernalia of the march.

Hook, however, was a proficient in the art, and would have made a successful 'cracksman' had he been born in the Seven Dials.

[12: Dr. James Hook, Dean of Worcester, was father to Dr. Walter Farquhar Hook, now the excellent Dean of Chichester, late Vicar of Leeds.]

Here he either improperly calls these regular little curves "hooks," or erroneously suggests that both the hooks and the curves are usual and appropriate signs of "the parenthesis."

The hook which turned him from his wicked career was Gurnall's "Christian Armor," a volume placed many years before, by a mother's hand, in his trunk, and until then neglected.

Even now, notwithstanding the obstructions caused by the immense deposits of ship-yard refuse at its mouth, a few of these fine fish are caught every season by one or two persevering anglers from Quebec,men who thrive on disappointment,whose fish-hooks are miniature anchors of Hope.

Hook was not a man of high moral charactervery far from itbut we need not therefore suppose that he sat down coolly and deliberately, like a villain in a novel, to effect the girl's ruin.

It was scurrilous to the last degree, and Theodore Hook was the soul of it.

My hook was a salmon fly with the feathers clipped off.

Hook, like many other wits, was a second son.

Hook was a certificated jester, with a lenient society to hear and applaud him, instead of an irritable tyrant to keep him in order: and he filled his post well.

Every one knows, more or less, what Byron's was; it need only be said that Hook's was the reverse of it in every respect.

HalI never use any hooks for salmon-fishing, except those which I am sure have been made by O'Shaughnessy, of Limerick; for even the hooks made in Dublin, though they seldom break, yet they now and then bend; and the English hooks made of cast steel in imitation of Irish ones are the worst of all.