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"Bullhead" Quotes from Famous Books

... for two days with the tail of her liege lord protruding from her mouth! A fish's eye will do for bait, though the anal fin is better. One of the natives here told me that when he wished to catch large trout (and I judged he never fished for any other,—I never do), he used for bait the bullhead, or dart, a little fish an inch and a half or two inches long, that rests on the pebbles near shore and darts quickly, when disturbed, from point to point. "Put that on your hook," said he, "and if there is a big fish in the creek, he ...

— In the Catskills • John Burroughs

... any primacy. The Norman imposed his laws upon England; the courts, the parish-registers, the Acts of Parliament were all his; but to this day there are districts of the Saxon Island where the postman and census-taker inquire in vain for Adam Smith and Benjamin Brown, but must perforce seek out Bullhead and Bandyshins. So indomitable is ...

— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 6, No. 38, December, 1860 • Various

... they came to the house at suppertime," he went on, "the whole family were laying for them. 'Ketch anything?' said the old lady, 'anythin' more'n a bullhead?' 'I c'n see,' said the hired man, 'that she's been castin' purty hard, by the way her dress is kinder pressed around the waist. It allers fixes mine ...

— Double Trouble - Or, Every Hero His Own Villain • Herbert Quick

Words linked to "Bullhead" : sculpin, Cottus, armed bullhead, brown bullhead, Ameiurus Melas, pout, siluriform fish, Ameiurus, genus Ameiurus, genus Cottus, catfish, hornpout, horned pout