Fish Bait

Here's a good example of what kind of ugly little fish-bait might come slithering out. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Practically all of them are taken with a fish-bait either live or dead, and used stationary on the bottom or in mid-water trailed behind a boat. ❋ Various (N/A)

It is a bottom feeder and will take a fish-bait either alive or dead; it is said occasionally to run at a spinning bait when used very deep. ❋ Various (N/A)

Lieutenant-Colonel cross-examined old Pigey until his testimony looked like a box of fish-bait. ❋ William H. Armstrong (N/A)

Average Jones pushed the collection of advertisements aside and returned to the opening phase of the problem, the fish-bait circular which Robinson had mailed him. ❋ Samuel Hopkins Adams (1914)

For rottenness sits in all the high places, and the white people feel that they are made mere fish-bait of, and that they have no civil rights under the domination of corn-field darkies, and army sutlers at the head of the State Government. ❋ Unknown (1880)

Yesterday, while catching grasshoppers for fish-bait, I nearly griped one in my hand; indeed, I rather think I did gripe it. ❋ Nathaniel Hawthorne (1834)

I know a liberal on the Sucker side: a really nice person, but pure fish-bait for the propaganda machine. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Misguided politicians and environmentalists are starving out farmers and farm laborers just so they can feel a tingly sensation of saving fish-bait. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Redsox, chowderhead, fish-bait, arrogant scab needs to shut up. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Later, when Granddaddy was in the fish-bait business, there was Frankie, who picked worms and fed the crickets and helped with heavy cleaning, and Frankie’s son Booster, who did odd jobs, and various men who cut the grass and trimmed the hedges or looked after the peach trees and the catawba trees while my grandfather marched around his acres wearing a pith helmet like the owner of a tea plantation in India. ❋ Diane Roberts (2008)

"Don't give up, Bill," he said, encouragingly, as Mr. Russell sat glum and silent; "read over them beautiful 'Verses to a Tea-pot' agin, and try and read them as if you 'adn't got your mouth full o' fish-bait. ❋ Unknown (1903)

: "Redsox, chowderhead, fish-bait, arrogant scab needs to shut up. ❋ Unknown (2008)