gudgeon

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Morose, georgette, cited, ingenuity, questionnaire, accessible, meringue, gudgeon, insoluble, parliamentary, aphorism, olfactory and lineaments cleared the stage of all but three.

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But while gazing thus in the air the gudgeon was suddenly swallowed up by a treacherous pike who had hurled himself upon him like a flash of lightning.

From The Legend of the Glorious Adventures of Tyl Ulenspiegel in the land of Flanders and elsewhere by Coster, Charles de

In the month of October it occurred to Mr. Bradley to tempt him with some small fish, and the first gudgeon thrown into the water he darted at and swallowed with avidity.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. V, October, 1850, Volume I. by

Next to those should be ranked the white river-fish, which have scales, as pike, perch, gudgeon.

From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus

Fish not, with this melancholy bait, For this fool gudgeon, this opinion.

From Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature by Bartlett, John