gudgeon

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From Time Magazine Archive

Eight-hundred gudgeon are said to have been consumed in three weeks by eight pike of not more than five pounds weight each.

From Natural History in Anecdote Illustrating the nature, habits, manners and customs of animals, birds, fishes, reptiles, etc., etc., etc. by Various

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

Nothing is so certain to take; the gudgeon will tempt the pike there when an ordinary roach may be displayed before him without the slightest effect.

From Wild Life in a Southern County by Jefferies, Richard

But the truth is not to be found in eating gudgeon and that I proclaim aloud!

From The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor