Sentence Examples

1. I have seen at one time lying on the ice pickerel of at least three different kinds a long and shallow one, steel-colored, most like those caught in the river a bright golden kind, with greenish reflections and remarkably deep, which is the most common here and another, golden-colored, and shaped like the last, but peppered on the sides with small dark brown or black spots, intermixed with a few faint blood-red ones, very much like a trout.
2. Once, in the winter, many years ago, when I had been cutting holes through the ice in order to catch pickerel, as I stepped ashore I tossed my axe back on to the ice, but, as if some evil genius had directed it, it slid four or five rods directly into one of the holes, where the water was twenty-five feet deep.
3. Its pickerel, though not abundant, are its chief boast.
4. The perch swallows the grub-worm, the pickerel swallows the perch, and the fisher-man swallows the pickerel and so all the chinks in the scale of being are filled.
5. From a hill-top you can see a fish leap in almost any part for not a pickerel or shiner picks an insect from this smooth surface but it manifestly disturbs the equilibrium of the whole lake.
6. Here is one fishing for pickerel with grown perch for bait.
7. Early in the morning, while all things are crisp with frost, men come with fishing reels and slender lunch, and let down their fine lines through the snowy field to take pickerel and perch wild men, who instinctively follow other fashions and trust other authorities than their townsmen, and by their goings and comings stitch towns together in parts where else they would be ripped.