gudgeon

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From Time Magazine Archive

The gambler fixed a keen look upon Lesparre for a moment, and then replied that he was no gudgeon to bite such a stale bait as that.

From Mississippi Outlaws and the Detectives Don Pedro and the Detectives; Poisoner and the Detectives by Pinkerton, Allan

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

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

From The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor

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