gudgeon

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From Time Magazine Archive

“Well,” Clay returned, “there’s a gudgeon up on shore that evidently wants to get hold of your hook, and you with it.”

From The River Motor Boat Boys on the St. Lawrence The Lost Channel by Gordon, Harry

You are not the gudgeon I took you for.

From Horse-Shoe Robinson A Tale of the Tory Ascendency by Kennedy, John Pendleton

They were disappointed in finding you no gudgeon to be hooked by such raw methods.

From Desert Dust by Shepherd, J. Clinton

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

From The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor