Palmers

Ordinary trout flies do well enough for all four species, but chub often prefer something larger, and big bushy lures called "palmers," which represent caterpillars, are generally used for them. ❋ Various (N/A)

The valley where we live (the Matanuska-Susitna Valley) was actually settled by "palmers" or ❋ Unknown (2008)

a chubby little leathern pottle, such as palmers carry at the tips of their staves; but in it was something, I wot, more like good Malmsey than cold spring water, such as godly pilgrims carry. ❋ Howard Pyle (1882)

And here, instead of giving her the old "palmers 'kiss" routine, he asks the audience for advice. ❋ Fiona Zublin (2010)

And the green slopes that lean toward them like palmers. ❋ Unknown (2006)

So they agreed upon this and he fared forth and took passage for himself and her and they made ready and set out in the ship with a company of Jerusalem palmers. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Accordingly, when the palmers appeared I asked concerning the twain, but they could give me no news of them; so I donned mourning for them, being heavy at heart, and in sleep I have no part and I am drowned in the tears of my eyes. ❋ Unknown (2006)

He was a crook, too; the brothers said he was one of the best chip palmers in the world; he could palm a chip and have it hidden safely inside one of his cheeks in the twinkling of an eye. ❋ The Daily Growler (2006)

The Krishna Cops were scanning every passenger with palmers. ❋ Dozois, Gardner (2006)

The new splendid outfits we wore as we drove along the boulevards, where stars and movie-gods smiled down and blessed us in the virtual sight of our palmers. ❋ Dozois, Gardner (2006)

And palm to palm is holy palmers 'kiss. romeo: Have not saints lips, and holy palmers too? juliet: Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer. romeo: Oh, then, dear saint, let lips do what hands do. ❋ Bevington, David (2002)

A crowd of palmers and votaries was prostrate before the altar. ❋ Gibbon, Edward, 1737-1794 (1994)

"For saints have hands that pilgrims 'hands do touch, And palm to palm is holy palmers' kiss." ❋ McCaffrey, Anne, 1926- (1969)

Nevertheless, skipping with their bourbons, as St. Michael's palmers used to do, they sheltered themselves from the danger of that inundation under the banks of his teeth. ❋ William Cleaver Wilkinson (N/A)

It is doubtful if any pilgrims traveled so far at first in such numbers through unsympathetic and unfriendly people as those who went as palmers before the settlement of the roads by Constantine or just before the Crusades. ❋ Daniel A. Goodsell (N/A)

These pilgrims always brought home with them branches of palm, to show that they had really been to the land where the tree grew; and so they were called _palmers_. ❋ Ella Rodman Church (N/A)