He was too wary a fowler to flutter the bird when just entangled in the net.
"Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists"
Washington Irving
While pretending to point out the narrow path to heaven, they, like the cunning fowler, lead their fascinated admirers into their own well-constructed decoys;-more narrow and narrow grows the way, with many a twist and turn, till at length they cast their nets, from whose meshes there is no escape.
"The Prime Minister"
W.H.G. Kingston
It was only about four years before I was kidnapped, that Mr. O. S. fowler, the great Phrenologist, examined his head, and expressed his opinion of his mental condition in nearly these words.
"Marital Power Exemplified in Mrs. Packard's Trial, and Self-Defence from the Charge of Insanity"
Elizabeth Parsons Ware Packard