British angling flies, revised and annotated by F.M. Walbran |
Términos y frases comunes
amber ambry angler angling aquatic artificial ashy autumn beetle belly blue drake blue dun breast BRIMHAM ROCKS brown drake brown tinge cast checkwing cock's hackle commence hatching coppery creeper skins dark brown Dark drake darker shade David Foster daytime dim transparency dotterel DRAKE.-Length dressed DUN.-Full length edges eyes feather feelers fibres five-eighths flyfisher FOUNTAINS ABBEY Francis freckled dun Full length gnat grayling green drake grey hair half an inch hare's ear hatching this month head hen hackle HENRY HEATH house fly Ilkley imitation iron blue joints landrail leady light red lighter mohair natural flies needle brown NEWBY HALL numbers one-sixteenth orange silk parency patterns quarter red drake red dun Ripon Ronalds season shew shoulders and body silk for body smelt species Spinner sport spotted stone fly streams thighs three-eighths top wings tribes trout WALBRAN Watchet whisks wings and legs yellow silk Yore Yorkshire Yorkshire rivers
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Página 128 - He sprang in glee, — for what cared he That the river was strong, and the rocks were steep ?-— But the greyhound in the leash hung back, And checked him in his leap. The Boy is in the arms of Wharf, And strangled by a merciless force ; For never more was young Romilly seen Till he rose a lifeless corse.