I took off the fly from my line, and fastened upon it half a dozen snells with bare hooks, attached a small sinker, and dropped quietly among them.

" Not only here, but over the whole county of Norfolk, the well-sinker might carry his shaft down many hundred feet without coming to the end of the chalk; and, on the sea-coast, where the waves have pared away the face of the land which breasts them, the scarped faces of the high cliffs are often wholly formed of the same material.

Before the mine goes over, a windlass inside the plummet-sinker is revolved by hand until the length of cable between the plummet and the anchor-chamber has been reeled off equivalent to the depth below the surface at which the explosive mine is to float.

He cracked a couple of clams one against the other; tied the fleshy part of one to each of the cords; tied bits of shell on, a foot or so from the ends, for sinkers; handed one cord to Ford, took the other himself, and laid the long-handled scoop-net he had brought with him down between them, saying, "Now we're ready.

He even allowed Dab to pick out a line for him, and to put on the hook and sinker; and Dick Lee showed him how to fix his bait, "so de fust cunner dat rubs agin it won't knock it off.

That poor dear has to swallow a sinker with everything she inhales.

I'm tired of hearing virtues talked about and would like to have the whole of them, all there are in the world, tied up in a sack, in order to throw them into the sea, even though I had to use my diamonds for sinkers.

Two stones, a foot and a half long, roughly rounded, with a shallow groove across the middle of the flatter sides, resembled sinkers used by fishermen to hold down large nets, although ten times larger than any I had ever seen used.

A fisherman stood on the beach in a statuesque attitude, his handsome bare legs bathed in the frothy swells, a bag of fish hanging from his shoulder, and the large square net, with its sinkers of lead in his right hand, ready for a cast.

Apparently Carroll had swallowed hook, line, and sinker.

" Both sinkers started on their long descent together, and seventy feet of line whizzed out before they came to rest.

But at the instant his sinker touched the bottom Joe felt the struggling jerks of a hooked fish.

To those who had not, the articles were ready at hand; for speculators had mingled in the crowd, one of whom affixed his "shingle" to a post between-decks, setting forth,"Fishing-Lines and Hooks, with Sinkers and Bait,"the latter consisting of clams in the shell, contained in a barrel big enough for the supply of the whole flotilla of green boats and red shirts, which still hung around us like swallows in the wake of an osprey.

As if Teddy McFadden would let go hook and line, bob and sinker, whin he had got hold of a sturgeon.

blower and maker; hand maker employs die sinker, finisher, &c. 15.

"Well, just think of that tight white hammock, the light weight of the shot, and the very hot weatherthink, too, how easily a fishing-cork is balanced in the water by a very small sinker, and lastly how confined air will buoy up anythingand you have the whole secret of his coming back.

But we cannot suspect the Congressional Committee of a joke, still less of a joke at the expense of those anglers in the literary current whose tackle, however bare of bait, never fails of a sinker at the end of every line.

Hookey, line and sinker.

Hookey, line and sinker.

They swallow it, hook, bob and sinker!" Chapter VI "If the bowl had been stronger

It is divided into apartments, which are filled with fish-hooks, sinkers, bobbers, artificial flies, spoon-hooks, reels, and other tackle, all kept in the nicest order.

The upper border is supported, when in the water, by numerous small thin triangular floats of light wood, and the lower margin is strung with a series of perforated shellschiefly single valves of Arca scaphaserving as sinkers.

The former, although frequently thirty or forty feet in length, did not exceed eighteen inches in depththey have small meshes, thin triangular wooden floats, and shells at the bottom as sinkers.