gudgeon

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From Time Magazine Archive

In the brook the jack do not seem to care much about them; but in the lake above there are no gudgeon, and there a gudgeon is a fatal bait.

From Wild Life in a Southern County by Jefferies, Richard

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

From The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor

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

From The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor