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For the drawer was filled with a heterogeneous mess of dynamite sticks, boxes of fulminating caps, coils of fuses, lead sinkers, iron tools, and many boxes of rifle, revolver and pistol cartridges.

Then the caplin moved off and five minutes later there was no sound except the splash of the sinkers overside, the flapping of the cod, and the whack of the muckles as the men stunned them.

One packed rush was made to the side, and every eye counted every ripple, as moment followed moment, and no sign of either the sinker or the diver could be seen.

I speak of the longboat, of our thirst and hunger, and of the third officer, the fair lad with cheeks virgin of the razor, and that he it was who used it as a sinker when we strove to catch fish.

She began to haul in, hand under hand, rapidly and deftly, the boy encouraging her, until hooks, sinker, and a big gasping rockcod tumbled into the bottom of the boat.

The world's largest product range from Saxonia, one of the world leaders and the specialist for accessories for the warp knitting industry, includes needles, guide needles, sinkers and blocks for all warp knitting applications.

That's when heavier sinkers and heftier rods are needed to launch rigs and hold stationary in sometimes rough surf and longshore current.

I make my own 1/2- to 1-ounce pencil sinkers, with a swivel on one end and an eye at the other end.

Rarely would one think about the people catching fish with hooks, lines and sinkers by the seashore.

The use of lead hunting ammunition and lead fishing sinkers continues to put both humans and wildlife at risk of lead poisoning ("Swan that was shot being treated at Tufts veterinary hospital,'' Telegram & Gazette, Feb.

I now have a wallet of Airflo tips ranging in length from five to 15 feet and in sinking rates from floating to hover and intermediate, and then slow sinkers, fast sinkers, superfast sinkers and extrasuperfast sinkers.