"Brandlin" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... possing paws, The saucer of skim-milk that young skinflint spares me, And purring, when her darlings pull my tail— Great-grandchildren, too, to Ezra, on both sides. Ay: you may gape like a brace of guddled brandling: But that old bull-trout's grandsire to you both; And a double dose of his blue blood will run In the veins of your small fry—if ...
— Krindlesyke • Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
... be most of them particularly good for particular fishes. But for the Trout, the dew-worm, which some also call the lob-worm, and the brandling, are the chief; and especially the first for a great Trout, and the latter for a less. There be also of lob-worms, some called squirrel-tails, a worm that has a red head, a streak down the back, and a broad ...
— The Complete Angler • Izaak Walton |
