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.

From Time Magazine Archive

You are not bigger than a gudgeon, and you know how to swim, it is easy for you.

From With Fire and Sword An Historical Novel of Poland and Russia. by Sienkiewicz, Henryk

And many a gudgeon of the pond, If made to speak to-day, Would own, with grief, the angler had A mighty taking way!

From The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 3 May 1906 by Various

You eat a gudgeon a day, and you think you bribe God with gudgeon.”

From The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor

There in the cell you blamed me for behaving disrespectfully just because I spoke of eating gudgeon, Pyotr Alexandrovitch.

From The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor