gudgeon

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From Time Magazine Archive

Every morning the boy from the Weirs arrived with freshly caught gudgeon, and now and then an eel or trout, which the scouts on the staircase had learnt to fry delicately in oil.

From Tom Brown at Oxford by Hughes, Thomas

Roberval, like a fool gudgeon, caught at the bait, and had in his own mind fully decided to try the venture.

From Marguerite De Roberval A Romance of the Days of Jacques Cartier by Marquis, T. G.

You eat a gudgeon a day, and you think you bribe God with gudgeon.”

From The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor

Whaling is indeed a glorious sport, as far superior to your salmon fishing and fox hunting, as those diversions are to bobbing for gudgeon and chasing rats with a terrier.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 383, September 1847 by Various