On the 16th, Omai, being on shore with the captain, caught with a scoop-net, in a very short time, as much fish as served the whole party for dinner, besides sending a quantity to both the ships. ❋ Unknown (2003)
He lays his big scoop-net an 'his sack -- we can see it half full already -- down behind a boulder, and takes a good squinting look all round, and listens maybe twenty minutes, he's that cute, same's a coyote stealing sheep. ❋ Unknown (1995)
He also told us of the steamer Cambria's getting aground on his shore a few months before we were there, and of her English passengers who roamed over his grounds, and who, he said, thought the prospect from the high hill by the shore "the most delightsome they had ever seen," and also of the pranks which the ladies played with his scoop-net in the ponds. ❋ Various (N/A)
They had a lot of fun, but caught no crabs, until Dick went back to the _Irene_ for a scoop-net and a bucket, which he soon filled with the crustaceans. ❋ A. W. Dimock (N/A)
Facts are against him, though; and it is well understood by his friends that the fish was first taken by some poaching rascal with a scoop-net, and subsequently hooked by the angler with a five-dollar Greenback Fly. ❋ Various (N/A)
I take de big scoop-net an 'I'll come up here for see if I'll be able for scoop some fish on Jawnny Leroi's platform. ❋ Edward William Thomson (1886)
He lays his big scoop-net an 'his sack -- we can see it half full already -- down behind ❋ Frank Norris (1886)
When he wiped his nose with a handkerchief like a scoop-net, some shells and pebbles fell from his pocket, and his ears flapped like a pair of ventrals. ❋ George Alfred Townsend (1877)
At one place, Cape Thompson, Eskimo were seen catching birds from a high cliff with a kind of scoop-net, and I saw birds at Herald island refuse to move when pelted with stones, so unaccustomed were they to the presence of man. ❋ Unknown (1871)
He cracked a couple of clams, one against the other; tied the fleshy part firmly to the ends of the cords; tied a bit of shell on, a foot or so from the end, for a sinker; handed one to Ford; took the other himself, and laid the long-handled scoop-net he had brought with him down between them, saying: ❋ Various (1868)
In a minute or so more the operation of the scoop-net was called for, and then the fun began. ❋ Various (1868)
The fisherman takes his stand in the bows, sometimes bestriding the light and frail vessel from gunwale to gunwale, having a scoop-net in his hands. ❋ Schoolcraft, H R (1851)
Indians catch the white-fish with a scoop-net, like a landing-net, with a long handle. ❋ William Henry Giles Kingston (1847)
Well, our horses were saddled at an early hour, and Joe and I were soon on the spot -- and he with a handkerchief at the end of a little pole, with which he had made a sort of scoop-net, soon dipped one up as it was hopping along on the surface of the water, and making unsuccessful efforts to dive through its surface. ❋ Unknown (1841)
Now and then they cast the scoop-net; all looked just as I had fancied, only far prettier. ❋ Margaret Fuller (1830)
Now and then they cast the scoop-net; -- all looked just as ❋ Margaret Fuller (1830)
The one in the bow has a scoop-net, which he dips, as soon as one of these glittering fish is observed, and lands him into the canoe. ❋ Richard Henry Bonnycastle (1819)
