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“This house has been far out at sea all night, The woods crashing through darkness, the booming hills, Winds stampeding the fields under the window Floundering black astride and blinding wet Till day rose; then under an orange sky The hills had new places, and wind wielded Blade-light, luminous black and emerald, Flexing like the lens of a mad eye.”

Has Beens Light Eye Night House Black Darkness Sea Sky Fields Wind Window Mad Rose Woods Hills Wet Orange Lenses Blades All Night Luminous New Places Emeralds Flexing Floundering

Book:The Hawk in the Rain

Source: The Hawk in the Rain

“O scaly, slippery, wet, swift, staring wights, What is 't ye do? what life lead? eh, dull goggles? How do ye vary your vile days and nights? How pass your Sundays? Are ye still but joggles In ceaseless wash? Still nought but gapes and bites, And drinks, and stares, diversified with boggles.”

Stills Night Sea Drink Rivers Fishes Boat Staring Dull Lakes Fishing Sunday Bites Wet Vary Day And Night Slippery Goggles

Book:The poetical works of Leigh Hunt, revised by himself and ed. with an intr. by S.A. Lee

Source: The poetical works of Leigh Hunt, revised by himself and ed. with an intr. by S.A. Lee

“The indications which tell your dry fly angler when to strike are clear and unmistakable, but those which bid a wet fly man raise his rod-point and draw in the steel are frequently so subtle, so evanescent and impalpable to the senses, that, when the bending rod assures him that he has divined aright, he feels an ecstacy as though he had performed a miracle each time.”

Men Feels Clear Sea Draws Rivers Miracle Raises Fishes Strikes Senses Boat Dry Lakes Subtle Fishing Wet Steel Indication Bending Anglers

Author:G. E. M. Skues

“And yet there are many times when it does not make any difference what pattern one uses. One thing is certain. The more bedraggled the fly gets the better the trout like it. I think there is a reason for this. I think the bedraggled half worn out wet fly more closely imitates a nymph than a new one does. Most commercial flies are tied too bushy and full. A little trimming of wings and thinning out of hackles will often work wonders.”

Thinking Littles Doe Reason Use Certain Differences Half Wonder One Thing Sea Rivers Wings Patterns Fishes Boat Lakes Fishing Tied Wet Worn Worn Out Trout Nymphs Trimming

Author:Ray Bergman

“For this form of fishing (with a wet fly), the rod is no longer a shooting machine but a receiving post, with super-sensitive antennae, capable of registering immediately the slightest reaction of the fish to the fly.”

Form Sea Capable Rivers Machines Fishes Reactions Boat Posts Shooting Sensitive Lakes Fishing Receiving Wet

Author:Charles Ritz

“A black-crowned night heron stood on an apron of wet sand, looking across the channel. The feather plume at the back of his head lifted in a faint breeze. Out there the channel churned its cyclonic eddies counterclockwise. Schools of anchovies, halibut, and sea bass came and went: silver flashes, small storms that well up from the inside of the sea but are short-lived, like lightning.”

Wells School Night Black Sea Ocean Storm Sand Silver Wet Flash Lightning Breeze Feathers Bass Short Lived Aprons Herons Halibut

Book:A Match to the Heart: One Woman's Story of Being Struck By Lightning

Source: A Match to the Heart: One Woman's Story of Being Struck By Lightning

“To Meath of the pastures, From wet hills by the sea, Through Leitrim and Longford, Go my cattle and me.”

Past Sea Hills Wet Voyages Cattle Pastures

Book:Selected Poems of Padraic Colum

Source: Selected Poems of Padraic Colum

“Canst thou, O partial sleep, give thy repose to the wet sea-boy in an hour so rude, and in the calmest and most stillest night, with all appliances and means to boot, deny it to a king?”

Giving Mean Night Hours Sleep Boys Sea Kings Deny Boots Wet Rude Repose Uneasy Appliances

Author:William Shakespeare