It is a big bait for the daughter of an exiled prince to be Queen of England.

Why, the hook was barely concealed, and the bait of the coarsest.

' another author said of him on one of his fishing excursions, that 'His rod, it was a sturdy mountain oak, His line, a cable which no storm e'er broke, His hook he baited with a dragon's tail, And sat upon a rock and bob'd for whale!'

How far remote from mortal vanities, Baits to the soul, enticements to the eye!

I am afraid, general, that there is a little of the sogdollager bait in this?" "Not enough, sir, to catch the merest fresh-water gudgeon that swims.

Thurtell is by this time a good way on his journey, baiting at Scorpion, perhaps.

If you will let me, I'll get up and get you a couple of bait from the stew.

From the above description of this monkey's behavior, it seems fairly certain that with sufficient opportunity, under strong hunger, he would ultimately succeed in obtaining the bait by the use of two or more boxes.

a man had as good be ty'd to a stake and baited like Tom Dove on Easter Monday as be the necessary appurtenance of a great man's table!'

The bait on his hook was gone and not a fish lay on the strand beside him.

Not even tadpoles enjoy being used for live-bait without being consulted first.

While she was in sight he watched her, the figure bending lithe as the rod she held, moving lightly, now a long, now a short step, half kneeling to throw the bait into an eddy; then off again with determined strides to the next likely pool.

And when we are line-fishing it sucks the bait off our hooks, and sometimes swallows hook and all."

Think of an extravagant man married to an extravagant womanthe mean and contemptible conduct to which they are driventhe insolence and cruelty with which they are baited through large towns, hunted down into an obscure cottage in the country, or chased into exile.

I have seen one follow a bait within a foot of the spot where I have been standing; and the head keeper of Richmond Park assured me that he was once washing his hand at the side of a boat in the great pond in that Park, when a pike made a dart at it, and he had but just time to withdraw it.

Every trap was set, and baited as before with a mass of honeybut honey now mixed with a potent sleeping draft.