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Sentences ending with bait

When Jeff arrived, Tom accosted him; and "led up" warily to opportunities for remark about Becky, but the giddy lad never could see the bait. [5]
A cynic said that the chief occupation was to wait at the "fishpond" for new arrivals--the young ladies angling while their mothers and chaperons--how shall we say it to complete the figure?--held the bait. [4]
Did you rely so little on your compelling powers, my lord, that you must needs resort to that bait? [11]
It wants plenty of bait. [4]
I never go fishing without both fly and bait. [4]
She never removed a carcase, but left them there for bait. [5]
I threw Farrar a bait. [9]
Get your bait. [5]

Sentences containing bait two or more times

The fish were so wanting in taste as to disdain the sweet bait, but my early awakened love of sport kept me patiently a long time in the same spot, which was undoubtedly more agreeable to my mother than the bait was to the salmon. [10]

More example sentences with the word bait in them

I have avoided your bait, as you call it, for your sake, not mine own. [11]
The wolfish Catherine writes to England for her lost Camisard, with much fool's talk about 'dark figures,' and 'conspirators,' 'churls,' and foes of 'soft peace'; and England takes the bait and sends to Sir Hugh Pawlett yonder. [11]
The fox was warned of the trap, but the bait was too tempting! [10]
Not in any urgent way, it is true, still she throws out a bait to such as like notice and distinction (in other words, the Human Race). [5]
To know how to choose the bait is also an art. [10]
No bait of this sort was too obvious for Beaton to swallow; he could be caught with it as often as Fulkerson chose; though he was ordinarily suspicious as to the motives of people in saying things. [8]
We frequently selected the trout we wanted, and rested the bait patiently and persistently on the end of his nose at a depth of eighty feet, but he would only shake it off with an annoyed manner, and shift his position. [5]
Mormonism had all the requisites but one--it had nothing new and nothing valuable to bait with; and, besides, it appealed to the stupid and the ignorant only. [5]
Mormonism had all the requisites but one it had nothing new and nothing valuable to bait with. [5]
I never wrote the note on the tile which was signed with my name; Eulaeus did it, and you took his bait and came out into the desert by night. [10]
Racine rose to the bait with a jump. [11]
He did not swallow it at once, neither did he reject it; but he took it as a pickerel takes the bait, and carried it off with him to his hole (in the fourth story) to deal with at his leisure. [6]
The excitement of rigging up the tackle, digging the bait, and the anticipation of great luck! [4]
Next, as before remarked, it must bait its hook with some new and attractive advantages over the baits offered by the other religions. [5]
Next, as before remarked, it must bait its hook with some new and attractive advantages over the baits offered by its competitors. [5]
It is the practice of the country folk, whose only object is to get fish, to use a good deal of bait, sink the hook to the bottom of the pools, and wait the slow appetite of the summer trout. [4]
From where we lay hid behind log house and palings we strained our eyes towards the prairie to see if Lamothe would take the bait, until our view was ended at the fuzzy top of a hillock. [9]
I had an idea that the Sieur de St. Gre and Mr. Temple might act as a bait to reveal the disease in some others. [9]
The fresh-water fisherman had pulled out a rag which he called a "hangkercher,"--it had served to carry bait that morning,--and was making use of its best corner to dry the tears which were running down his cheeks. [6]
I have fished for trout, in Tahoe, and at a measured depth of eighty-four feet I have seen them put their noses to the bait and I could see their gills open and shut. [5]
Such a pretty face is as good a bait for a man, as a worm for a fish. [10]
Fishing lines were brought out, but before we could bait the hooks the boat was off and away again. [5]
We found no bait To tempt us in thy country. [6]
Dolokhov, who needed Anatole Kuragin's name, position, and connections as a bait to draw rich young men into his gambling set, made use of him and amused himself at his expense without letting the other feel it. [2]
The government pays a bounty for the shark; to get the bounty the fishermen bait the hook or the seine with agreeable mutton; the news spreads and the sharks come from all over the Pacific Ocean to get the free board. [5]

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