204 examples of to fish in sentences

The boat continued on until it reached the channel between islands No. 87 and No. 88, and there Mr. P. got out his lines and commenced to fish, trolling his bait behind as the boat slowly sailed, under the hot sun, among those lovely isles, where, to be sure, burning's half o' the sport, but where "burning SAPPHO" would have lost herself utterly, and probably have tumbled into some of the watery intricacies and have put herself out.

The absurdly small minority consisted mostly of Americanized camp-following traders, who, having come to fish in troubled waters, naturally wanted the laws made to suit poachers.

The inhabitants were living in tranquillity when one day, as they were starting out to fish, a ship arrived off shore.

God bless him for it, and God bless you, Southey! C. L. Leigh Hunt says: "Walton says that an angler does no hurt but to fish; and this he counts as nothing....

That was why I was afraid to fish the Bagworthy water.

The right to fish in any particular piece of water, is let out by the proprietor on whose land the water lies, or through which it flows.

As she was poor, and utterly unable either to hunt or to fish, we helped her in various ways.

" The man went out that same night to fish.

Estimating the duration of dinner by the speed of an ordinary railroad-train, it is twenty miles from soup to fish, and fifty from turkey to nuts.

" CRANE Where waters troubled are or clear, To fish I am delighted; Thus pious gentlemen appear With devils here united.

A party went from the house, where I always stayed, to fish at Macomber Falls.

The morning after our arrival a baseline was measured upon the beach for the survey of the bay, and whilst we were thus employed our people found and brought to me several traces of Malays, who, as we are informed by Captain Flinders, make annual visits to this part of the coast in large fleets, to fish for beche de mer.

Plenty of good food gives a silvery colour and round form to fish, and the offspring retain these characters.

Thus, beginning with the larvae of ascidians (a marine mollusc,) we get by development to fish lowly organized (as the lancelet), thence to ganoids and other fish, then to amphibians.

I can see vividly the banks of the Mohawk, where we used to fish for perch, bream, and pike-perch; recall where, with my brother Charles, we found the rarer flowers of the valley, the cypripediums, the most rare wild-ginger, only to be found in one locality, the walking fern, equally rare, and the long walks in the pine forests, whose murmuring branches in the west wind fascinated me more than any other thing in nature.

While at the Federal Convention in 1787 he and Gouverneur Morris went up to Valley Forge partly perhaps to see the old camp, but ostensibly to fish for trout.

When on his eastern tour of 1789 he went outside the harbor of Portsmouth to fish for cod, but the tide was unfavorable and they caught only two.

He had no right to fish on this side of that log.

One need only look at the professional and business man, who at every opportunity leaves civilization and goes to the woods to kill wild animals or to the lakes and streams to fish.

Dungloe men wanted to fish, but the gombeen man would never lend money to promote industry.

A party of soldiers, consisting of a corporal and six men, had that afternoon obtained leave to go up the river to fish.

Towards evening they all went out together to fish.

"You see," he explained soberly, "these poor Kamchadals haven't got but one river to fish in, and that isn't a very big one, so they have made it run past their settlement five times, and by this ingenious contrivance they catch five times as many salmon as they would if it only passed once!"

This rule applies to fish that is sautéd.

At daylight everyone was up and stirring, and soon afterwards the men and boys went down to the beach to fish.

204 examples of  to fish  in sentences