Cloudesley sounded with a boat-hook along the outside. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The best I could do would be to take a boat-hook and shove you down out of sight. ❋ Unknown (2010)
“I shall remove his reproductive organs with a rusty boat-hook.” ❋ Alix Mortimer (2009)
Lord Salisbury, British prime minister and foreign secretary in the last years of the 19th century, famously defined foreign policy as the art of drifting? lazily down a stream occasionally putting out a diplomatic boat-hook to avoid collisions.? ❋ Eliot Cohen (2009)
• Liberal Democrat jargon – If I hear another Lib Dem councillor refer to something in his ward as “on my patch”, I shall remove his reproductive organs with a rusty boat-hook. ❋ Alix Mortimer (2009)
Then he made a running bowline, and slipped the loop on to the shaft of the boat-hook, after which he held out the boat-hook, after the fashion of a fishing-rod, over the place where ❋ Unknown (2007)
This we did, after which he made fast a piece of salt meat to a bit of spun yarn, and bent this on to the boat-hook. ❋ Unknown (2007)
But, like a good many other people, the more he tried to think the less he could think; and Tom saw him blundering about all day, till the coast-guardsmen saw his big fin above the water, and rowed out, and struck a boat-hook into him, and took him away. ❋ Unknown (2007)
No one had the energy to hold on to the rope, or hold the boat-hook to keep us close to her, so at last I did it myself, Richard laughing all the while at their supineness, and at my making myself so officious and energetic. ❋ Unknown (2006)
I had no mast or sail in mine, but I made a mast out of a spare oar and hoisted a boat-awning for a sail, with a boat-hook for a yard. ❋ Unknown (2004)
When within reach the boat-hook was used as a spear more to startle the indolent fish than in the vain hope of effecting its capture. ❋ Unknown (2003)
One alone laid flesh on the shore, which we took up with the boat-hook as necessary victuals for the relieving of the man, woman, and child whom we had taken, for that as yet they could not digest our meat; whereby they perceived themselves deceived of their expectation for all their crafty allurements. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Then he took the boat-hook, and hit one with that; but all would not prevail, so at length we let them alone. ❋ Unknown (2003)
So I was still bound to my idling occupation after all, and wandered up and down the river as before with my boat-hook and my rations. ❋ Unknown (2003)
I was all fitted out for a tramp up the river, with my boat-hook and a store of food. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Midwinter resigned his oar to Allan; and, watching his opportunity, caught a hold with the boat-hook on the fore-chains of the vessel. ❋ Unknown (2003)
When he heard her cry out so piteously he was very sorry for her, and ran back into his house to fetch a long boat-hook. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Dispersed for an instant as the boat-hook or paddle was driven through it, the mass coalesced automatically and instantly as if controlled by mechanical force, or composed of some resilient substance, and swayed again on its course, while the dead and stunned drifted away. ❋ Unknown (2003)
The boat-hook passed through what appeared to be the middle of the creature with a splash, and four or five fish, about 8 inches long, and of narrow girth, floated away, stunned, killed by the shock. ❋ Unknown (2003)
He’s as [bent] as [a boat] [hook] that lad ❋ Otispunkmeyer86 (2021)
