Fisherman
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The key is for all interested parties – from
fisherman
and conservationists to governments and international forums – to work together through the Memorandum of Understanding and similar initiatives.
Clinton remembered... seeing some poor
fisherman
casting their lines....
Such political goodwill is essential for regional stability, particularly given the deterioration in Sino-Japanese relations following last year’s confrontation over the arrest of a Chinese
fisherman
by Japan’s coast guard.
In a good week, a
fisherman
like Carlos might take home the equivalent of seven or eight dollars for his catch.
"The mine ought to belong to the miner, as the sea belongs to the fisherman, and the earth to the peasant.
A fisherman!"Ned Land exclaimed.
So he told the harpooner:"Ned my friend, you're a slayer of fish, a highly skilled
fisherman.
"On that note, professor," Captain Nemo told me, "you and your companions will visit the Mannar oysterbank, and if by chance some eager
fisherman
arrives early, well, we can watch him at work.""That suits me, captain."
It was a man, a living man, a black Indian fisherman, a poor devil who no doubt had come to gather what he could before harvest time.
Just as it was about to snap up the poor fisherman, the man-eater saw its new adversary, repositioned itself on its belly, and headed swiftly toward him.
The three of us followed him, and a few moments later, miraculously safe, we reached the
fisherman'
s longboat.
And above all, what must he have thought when Captain Nemo pulled a bag of pearls from a pocket in his diving suit and placed it in the
fisherman'
s hands?
He understood the Canadian's frame of mind and addressed him directly:"If you held a harpoon, Mr. Land, wouldn't your hands be itching to put it to work?""Positively, sir.""And just for one day, would it displease you to return to your
fisherman'
s trade and add this cetacean to the list of those you've already hunted down?""It wouldn't displease me one bit."
"You still aren't over your old fishing urges?""How could a whale
fisherman
forget his old trade, sir?
"But when these giant seals defend their little ones, their fury is dreadful, and it isn't rare for them to smash a
fisherman'
s longboat to bits.""They're within their rights," Conseil answered.
In truth, there were too many seals ashore, and it would never do to expose this impulsive
fisherman
to such temptations.
That same year a humble seal fisherman, the Englishman Weddell, went as far as latitude 72 degrees 14' on the 35th meridian, and as far as 74 degrees 15' on the 36th.
In truth, this animal is a living fishhook, promising wealth and happiness to the greenest
fisherman
in the business.
But when I regained consciousness, I was lying in a
fisherman'
s hut on one of the Lofoten Islands.
"Ah! yes," Felicite went on, "you are just like La Guerine, Pere Guerin's daughter, the
fisherman
at Pollet, that I used to know at Dieppe before I came to you.
It was an old
fisherman
who, with immense difficulty, at last rescued us, and we were towed back in an ignominious fashion to the boat-yard.
The local
fisherman'
s guide doesn't say a word about catching anything.
I am not a good
fisherman
myself.
But they were sure I should never make anything of a
fisherman.
Some people are under the impression that all that is required to make a good
fisherman
is the ability to tell lies easily and without blushing; but this is a mistake.
Torralva, who knew of it, went after him, and on foot and barefoot followed him at a distance, with a pilgrim's staff in her hand and a scrip round her neck, in which she carried, it is said, a bit of looking-glass and a piece of a comb and some little pot or other of paint for her face; but let her carry what she did, I am not going to trouble myself to prove it; all I say is, that the shepherd, they say, came with his flock to cross over the river Guadiana, which was at that time swollen and almost overflowing its banks, and at the spot he came to there was neither ferry nor boat nor anyone to carry him or his flock to the other side, at which he was much vexed, for he perceived that Torralva was approaching and would give him great annoyance with her tears and entreaties; however, he went looking about so closely that he discovered a
fisherman
who had alongside of him a boat so small that it could only hold one person and one goat; but for all that he spoke to him and agreed with him to carry himself and his three hundred goats across.
The
fisherman
got into the boat and carried one goat over; he came back and carried another over; he came back again, and again brought over another—let your worship keep count of the goats the
fisherman
is taking across, for if one escapes the memory there will be an end of the story, and it will be impossible to tell another word of it.
To proceed, I must tell you the landing place on the other side was miry and slippery, and the
fisherman
lost a great deal of time in going and coming; still he returned for another goat, and another, and another."
There is not a farmer nor a
fisherman
that cannot read and does not read.
Before the day was over I saw that we had to do with a blacksmith, a fisherman, a hunter, a joiner, but not at all with a minister of the Gospel.
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