A man of small accomplishments, he sang a little, rode a little, played, drew, fenced, Fished, shot-all, a little-that is, somewhat better than others in general, and giving him that dangerous kind of pre-eminence from which, though the tumble never kills, it occurs often enough to bruise and humiliate.
"The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II)"
Charles James Lever
We Fished out the trunks and started back.
"I Walked in Arden"
Jack Crawford
I Fished two or three sheltered runs, and came back soaking from within and without from the heat and wet foliage, scratched by thorns, with ears drumming from the noise of many waters, and no basket, and the river not down two inches and muddy as could be!
"From Edinburgh to India & Burmah"
William G. Burn Murdoch