gudgeon

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From Time Magazine Archive

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

From The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor

“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

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

From Desert Dust by Shepherd, J. Clinton

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