Lexicographical Neighbors of Rodsters
Literary usage of Rodsters
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. With Rod and Line in Colorado Waters by Lewis B. France (1884)
"He had no John to console him with stories of leviathans caught by other rodsters "
last summer." John would scorn anything less than a three-pound trout to ..."
2. Favorite Flies and Their Histories by Mary Orvis Marbury (1892)
"He would often fish in the wake of several rodsters, whose energy would exceed
their skill, and would extract, not infrequently, three times over the weight ..."
3. Favorite Flies and Their Histories by Mary Orvis Marbury (1892)
"He would often fish in the wake of several rodsters, whose energy would exceed
their skill, and would extract, not infrequently, three times over the weight ..."
4. Parodies of the Works of English & American Authors by Walter Hamilton (1887)
"So all you gay rodsters, pray treat me witli care, For your pleasures and pains
I'll happily share. I'ma float ! I'ma float ! and I'm fail on the job, ..."
5. Fishing with the Fly: Sketches by Lovers of the Art, with Illustrations of by Charles F. Orvis, A. Nelson Cheney (1886)
"... Stoddart's Angling Songs; all these and a score of others are familiar to
rodsters on both sides of the Atlantic. The clever poet and satirist, ..."
6. A Glossary of Words Used in the Wapentakes of Manley and Corringham by Edward Peacock (1889)
"... ranks rodsters from all parts of the three kingdoms." —Tht Leeds Mercury, July
8, 1879. ROHL, ROLL.—A garden or agricultural roller. ROIL, ». ..."
7. Salmon and Trout by Dean Sage (1902)
"... and the general use of this number, no more or no less, cannot be explained
satisfactorily, although many rodsters contend that a trio of flies attached ..."
8. Salmon and Trout by Dean Sage, Charles Haskins Townsend, Hugh McCormick Smith, William Charles Harris (1904)
"... as a food supply, other rodsters who have essayed this fish in waters adapted
to it, are inclined to place it above all other trouts in game qualities. ..."
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