gudgeon

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From Time Magazine Archive

Eight-hundred gudgeon are said to have been consumed in three weeks by eight pike of not more than five pounds weight each.

From Natural History in Anecdote Illustrating the nature, habits, manners and customs of animals, birds, fishes, reptiles, etc., etc., etc. by Various

"You preach to your grandmother," retorted Crescence: "such a beanpole as you may open every shutter of her windows and '11 never catch a gudgeon."

From Black Forest Village Stories by Auerbach, Berthold

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

From The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor

Dace and gudgeon are not so frequently caught in the navigable waters as other fish. p. 154Chub and barbel are unknown in the Broad District.

From The Handbook to the Rivers and Broads of Norfolk & Suffolk by Davies, G. Christopher