gudgeon

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From Time Magazine Archive

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

From The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor

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

O how foolish," he said; "it was of me to throw That fine gudgeon away!

From The Anglican Friar and the Fish which he Took by Hook and by Crook by Novice, A.

You are not the gudgeon I took you for.

From Horse-Shoe Robinson A Tale of the Tory Ascendency by Kennedy, John Pendleton