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Example Sentences
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By this construction the snells and hooks will be kept apart however the line maybe thrown, and however they and the leader may be turned about by the tide or current.
I took off the fly from my line, and fastened upon it half a dozen snells with bare hooks, attached a small sinker, and dropped quietly among them.
From Wild Northern Scenes Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod by Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.)
I'm sending you some snells and hooks, such as you can't get at Casket.
From Openings in the Old Trail by Harte, Bret
And I sez, "What do you do with squids, anyway, or gaffs, or snells?"
From Samantha at the World's Fair by Grimm, Baron C. de
I have spoken only of brass or copper wire for snells, and for pickerel or mascalonge of large size nothing else is to be depended on.
From Woodcraft by Sears, George Washington
