Synonyms for fishing expedition
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- There must be abstinence from the sex relation before a fishing expedition.
- Extract from : « Folkways » by William Graham Sumner
- This is a fishing expedition in the truest sense of the word.
- Extract from : « Smugglers' Reef » by John Blaine
- It asked for the blessing of God on the fishing expedition which was about to set out.
- Extract from : « The Deemster » by Hall Caine
- You intend to go on that fishing expedition with Jimmy Dumble to-morrow?
- Extract from : « The Zeppelin's Passenger » by E. Phillips Oppenheim
- Excuse my costume, but I am just back from a fishing expedition.
- Extract from : « The Zeppelin's Passenger » by E. Phillips Oppenheim
- He then would know that Kauhuhu was returning from his fishing expedition.
- Extract from : « Hawaiian Folk Tales » by Various
- This time the kingfisher answered them, for he was just back from a fishing expedition.
- Extract from : « Punch, July 18, 1917 » by Various
- I had a small yacht there of ten tons, and many a fishing expedition I have had in her of a bright, warm summer's day.
- Extract from : « Sporting Society, Vol. II (of 2) » by Various
- Ratu Lala thought this would be a good opportunity for us to make a fishing expedition to Vuna.
- Extract from : « Wanderings Among South Sea Savages And in Borneo and the Philippines » by H. Wilfrid Walker
- The salmon didn't run as usual, and his fishing expedition was a failure.
- Extract from : « The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 39, August 5, 1897 » by Various
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