gudgeon

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From Time Magazine Archive

O how foolish," he said; "it was of me to throw That fine gudgeon away!

From The Anglican Friar and the Fish which he Took by Hook and by Crook by Novice, A.

You’ve played the gudgeon for somebody; that’s all.

From Desert Dust by Shepherd, J. Clinton

Let the lever, used in the last experiment, be turned in such a manner as to reach from its gudgeon to the shaft of the Panorganon, guided by an attendant lever as before.

From Practical Education, Volume II by Edgeworth, Maria

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