Miss Jewett so well as the humorous and pastoral; but each detail about her heroine is attractive, and nothing in recent fiction, is more true, touching, and womanly than Doris's journey to Westmarket in the autumnal dawn to keep her lover at home from the fishing-banks. ❋ Various (N/A)
They are also very much chagrined with the Government for sending out to the fishing-banks a dispatch boat bearing the inappropriate name of ❋ Various (N/A)
I visited the fishing-banks off Hasani Island a week or so after to get the latest news of Um-Lejj, which came from Turkish sources. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
During the summer-time, after we had made something which was successful, I used to engage a brick-sloop at Perth Amboy and take the whole crowd down to the fishing-banks on the Atlantic for two days. ❋ Unknown (1910)
But it is among the peculiarities of the seals that, each autumn, they migrate southward, returning each spring in large numbers along the Alaskan coast, and also that, while at the islands, the nursing mothers make long excursions to fishing-banks at distances of from one to two hundred miles. ❋ Unknown (1906)
Amboy and take the whole crowd down to the fishing-banks on the Atlantic for two days. ❋ Frank Lewis Dyer (1905)
Poor fellows, they were bothered with their stomachs and their places to sleep; they quarrelled with the different villagers, and doubtless wished themselves back a hundred times to their fishing-banks and kindred employments, when the Christ moved a little apart from them. ❋ Will Levington Comfort (1905)
They had work to do out there on the fishing-banks. ❋ Burt L. Standish (1905)
But next spring when they all met off the fishing-banks of the Pacific, Kotick's seals told such tales of the new beaches beyond Sea Cow's tunnel that more and more seals left Novastoshnah. ❋ Unknown (1893)
He had been to the fishing-banks a dozen times, been whaling twice, had carried a cargo of wheat up the ❋ John Habberton (1881)
The very next day Squill had his wish gratified, and Stubbs his unbelief rebuked, for, while they were out in the boat rowing towards one of the fishing-banks with several of their comrades, they discovered a living giant-cuttlefish. ❋ Unknown (1859)
Watch it passing near the coast of Nova Scotia, and in the summer, not far from that of Newfoundland, where it has undoubtedly caused the formation of the well-known fishing-banks. ❋ William Henry Giles Kingston (1847)
But I believe I have committed a breach of etiquette in giving precedence to Scuppaug over the skipper, a very large and thoroughly pickled old man, who now bustled deliberately about the decks, with as few clothes on his broad back and stern-post legs as were consistent with decorum and with the requirements of those by-laws of society which extend even to Sandy Hook and the rest of the Jerseys, as well as to the fishing-banks that shoal out from the same. ❋ Various (N/A)
