We seined bugs from the stream, learned how trout are made of trees, and talked about caves and springs; all the while we listened to the phoebes calling loudly from the banks of the North Fork. ❋ Unknown (2009)
As a teenager, I gill-netted and purse seined on the Columbia River in Oregon, but by the time I was in my early twenties I was back in Alaska, king-crabbing out of Dutch Harbor and Unalaska. ❋ Molly O’Neill (2010)
I sat, face burning, avoiding Jamie's eyes, as she carefully removed small twigs and bits of oak leaf from my curls, depositing them on the dresser next to those seined from her brother's hair. ❋ Unknown (2010)
None was as massive as the MHW encasing him, but they seemed tough enough to resist the assaults of black; seined scavengers and predatory plant; life. ❋ Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- (1985)
My own special cronies, for example, were seined out of two large families of Jews and an equally abundant run of French Canadians. ❋ Unknown (1969)
I wanted very much to say that I had seen moon fish seined off the Florida Keys; but that I had never before seen moon fish with whiskers; and that I thought them very amusing. ❋ Burroughs, Edgar Rice, 1875-1950 (1963)
On which you could string, if you seined for a week, ❋ George W. Doneghy (N/A)
After beating the water and banks until it was supposed the fish had gone into the net, or trap, they were left in it until next day, when they were seined out. ❋ Needom N. Freeman (N/A)
Grown folks seined for fish in Big Crick and Saluda River at night, 'cause dey couldn't git away f'um field wuk in de day. ❋ Work Projects Administration (N/A)
On the Prince Edward County shore 1,000 to 6,000 Lake Ontario whitefish would be seined at one time. ❋ Unknown (1916)
But once that body had been bathed and fed, he started on his rounds of the underworld, seined the entire harbor-front without effect, and then set out his night-lines as cautiously as a fisherman in forbidden waters. ❋ Arthur Stringer (1912)
Two wiry, dark-faced French-Canadian boys were perched on one of the boats, watching the fishing fleet with lazy interest in their inky-black eyes, and wondering if the "Yanks" had seined many mackerel that day. ❋ Unknown (1908)
'Anything special in there?' asked Racksole curiously, as they stood before the door, and looked within at the seined ends of bottles. ❋ Arnold Bennett (1899)
Having thus seined President Winston's rhetorical sea, let us examine our catch and determine what is valuable food and what mere jelly-fish. ❋ Unknown (1898)
It takes its name, not as might be supposed from one of the aborigines, but from a small variety of mackerel known to fishermen as "tinkers," which used to be seined off the main head-land in large quantities. ❋ Robert Grant (1896)
Sometimes two little strings with a silver bead at one end were fastened to the mask, and seined as mouthpieces. ❋ Alice Morse Earle (1881)
Some of them were actually jealous that they had never been squirrel hunting, snipe hunting and had never seined a creek. ❋ Unknown (2010)
