Lexicographical Neighbors of Flybook
Literary usage of Flybook
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Joyful Heart by Robert Haven Schauffler (1914)
"My leader was a piece of gut from my brother's 'cello; my flybook, an old wallet.
As for flies, they seemed beyond my means; and it was perplexing to know ..."
2. Highways and Byways in South Wales by Arthur Granville Bradley (1903)
"... fine fellows too, came up now and again and took anything that came along
except the choice selections of our flybook. It is a delightful ride, or walk, ..."
3. Byways Around San Francisco Bay by William E. Hutchinson (1915)
"... real or imaginary, of his many patients; a judge, whose benign expression, as
he straightens the leaders in his flybook, or carefully wipes the moisture ..."
4. The Badminton Magazine of Sports & Pastimes edited by Alfred Edward Thomas Watson (1899)
"... and by its virtue my faithful bag, with its precious cargo of flybook, reels,
and lines landed some twenty hours later on the platform in the far West. ..."
5. Goin' Fishin': Weather and Feed Facts; the Fresh-water Game Fish; the by Carroll Blaine Cook (1920)
"... of which there are something like 5000 patterns from which a fellow can fill
a flybook to his heart's desire and sometimes much to the amusement of the ..."
6. Fishing Gossip: Or, Stray Leaves from the Note-books of Several Anglers by Henry Cholmondeley-Pennell (1866)
"I would not, for the best "monkey-drake" in my flybook, figure before a material
age as a sentimental savage, gibbering of humanity and fine feelings with a ..."
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