Walton

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The barbel, so called by reason of his barbs, or wattles in his mouth.

I have known a very good fisher angle diligently four or six hours for a river carp, and not have a bite.

Hark how it rains and blows !

A girl cropping culverkeys and cowslips to make garlands.

To catch a club by dapping with a grasshoper.

The docibleness of dogs in general.

The drake will mount steeple height into the air.

The dark drake fly, good in August.

His very soul was elemented of nothing but sadness.

Phillida flouts me.

The imposers of these oaths might repent.

It made him rather indisposed than sick.

Angling was . . . a moderator of passions.

Apt to reluct at the excesses of it [passion].

The barbel, for the preservation or their seed, both the spawner and the milter, cover their spawn with sand.

He stood to be elected one of the proctors of the university.

Made his masters and others . . . to consider him to a little wonder.

Eels unbed themselves and stir at the noise of thunder.

Let us drink the other cup to wet our whistles.

Let's drink the other cup to wet our whistles.