 | 1855 - 534 pàgines
...as a lure. But adepts in the sport, have contrived a taking device (eaptiosa quccdam maehinatio) to circumvent them ; for which purpose they invest the...scaly pursuers, who hastily rise and expect nothing lees than a dainty bait, snap the decoy, and are immediately fixed to the hook. So, that fly-fishing... | |
 | John Jackson Manley - 1877 - 428 pàgines
...a lure. But adepts in the sport have contrived a taking device, ' captiosa qucedam machinalio,' to circumvent them ; for which purpose they invest the...the decoy, and are immediately fixed to the hook." This is circumstantial enough ; and it may be taken for granted that the " speckled fish " was a member... | |
 | John Jackson Manley - 1877 - 436 pàgines
...a lure. But adepts in the sport have contrived a taking device, ' captiosa qucedam machinaiio,' to circumvent them ; for which purpose they invest the...pursuers, who hastily rise and expect nothing less than ;i dainty bait, snap the decoy, and are immediately fixed to the hook." This is circumstantial enough... | |
 | Manchester Anglers' Association - 1880 - 300 pàgines
...their capture by impaling the living insect. Adepts in the sport have contrived a taking device to circumvent them ; for which purpose they invest the...wool, and having adjusted two wings of a waxy colour, they drop these abstruse cheats gently down stream, and the scaly pursuers who hastily rise and expect... | |
 | John William Martin - 1882 - 206 pàgines
...appearance, and render it unfit as a lure. But adepts in the sport have contrived a taking device to circumvent them; for which purpose they invest the...an exact imitation of the hippurus, they drop these ahstruse cheats gently down the stream. The scaly pursuers, who hastily rise and expect nothing less... | |
 | John William Martin - 1885 - 218 pàgines
...appearance, and render it unfit as a lure. But adepts in the sport have contrived a taking device to circumvent them; for which purpose they invest the...the decoy, and are immediately fixed to the hook." Indeed, hundreds of years before Antony and Cleopatra amused themselves by angling, the craft was practised... | |
 | John Harrington Keene - 1886 - 268 pàgines
...impaling the living insect. Adepts in the art had contrived a taking device (captiosa qu&dam macliina) to circumvent them, for which purpose they invest the body of the hook with purple wool, and having two wings of a waxy colour, so as to form an exact imitation of the luppurus, they drop these abstruse... | |
 | John Harrington Keene - 1887 - 148 pàgines
...which purpose they invest the body of a hook with purple wool and having two wings of a waxy color, so as to form an exact imitation of the hippurus. They drop these abstruse cheats gently down stream. The scaly pursuers, who hastily rise and expect nothing but a dainty bait, are immediately... | |
 | John Harrington Keene - 1891 - 192 pàgines
...which purpose they invest the body of a hook with purple wool and having two wings of a waxy color, so as to form an exact imitation of the hippurus. They drop these abstruse cheats gently down stream. The scaly pursuers, who hastily rise and expect nothing but a dainty bait, are immediately... | |
 | James Tayler - 1893 - 120 pàgines
...the sport have contrived a taking device to circumvent them ; for which purpose they invest the bod)' of the hook with purple wool, and having adjusted...as to form an exact imitation of the hippurus, they drod these abstruse cheats gently down the stream. The scaly pursuers, who hastily rise and expect... | |
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But adepts in the sport have contrived a taking device, ' captiosa qucedam machinalio,' to circumvent them ; for which purpose they invest the body of the hook with purple wool, and having adjusted two wings of a waxy colour, so as to form an exact imitation... 
