"My sole worldly possessions are a stone hatchet and a hairpin fishhook.". From Wordnik.com. [Tish] Reference
Then we were on the road and I knew we were turns northwest, there is a place called "fishhook", where the road turns northwest. From Wordnik.com. [Shepard, Vernon C.] Reference
He showed them to Ed Davis, who said that he recognized the "fishhook" shaped formation as the area where he had seen a piece of the ark. From Wordnik.com. [CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]] Reference
Why is it cruel to put an earthworm on a fishhook?. From Wordnik.com. [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study] Reference
And suddenly she realized what the fishhook was for. From Wordnik.com. [The Oathbound]
He got a fishhook stuck in his thumb at Port Hughes. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2003-11-01] Reference
Give me no bread to eat, but let me sit with a fishhook. From Wordnik.com. [The Witch, and other stories] Reference
Nice job- I love your meringue with the fishhook swirls. From Wordnik.com. [Daring Baker Challenge - Lemon Meringue Pie] Reference
Yet the call was like a fishhook in his mind, drawing him. From Wordnik.com. [The Dark Tower]
On one Parkinson pointed out what he thought was a fishhook. From Wordnik.com. [Bill Heavey Chases Mongolian Taimen (with Prairie Dogs as Bait)] Reference
He was trying to attach a fishhook and a line on the door knob. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 7, 2005] Reference
And what did you do to me, set a fishhook in me to see me dance?. From Wordnik.com. [Wildfire] Reference
It's much like a fishhook, if you've gotten stuck with a fishhook. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 19, 2006] Reference
Alma sheathing the body of an earthworm over the point of a fishhook. From Wordnik.com. [Memory Wall] Reference
He was laughing, and somehow that caught hold of her like a fishhook. From Wordnik.com. [Night World No. 2] Reference
A curtain of fishhook thorns hangs down endangering all who draw near. From Wordnik.com. [GBDW Arbors and Pergolas-Killer-The Dilemma « Fairegarden] Reference
Ever get a fishhook caught in a part of you, or see someone get one caught?. From Wordnik.com. [Just a Cosmo Girl!] Reference
His voice clicked when he spoke, as though he had a fishhook in his throat. From Wordnik.com. [The Lost Get-Back Boogie] Reference
Once again, lowering our expectations while sinking the fishhook in deeper. From Wordnik.com. [Bush's Speech Tonight: Victory Won't Be Declared "On Deck Of Battleship"] Reference
'Do you have a fishhook, about the right size for a mullet, with a long shank?. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Corelli's Mandolin]
The prank worked a little too well when the fishhook dug into Merriman's calf. From Wordnik.com. [Vp Remarks At The Funeral Of His Father Albert Gore Sr] Reference
She took an enormous fishhook on a double length of twine out of her beltpouch. From Wordnik.com. [Oathblood]
And also, the fishhook maggot-squirm that was the blind man twisting in her head. From Wordnik.com. [Hunter,Healer[SequeltoTheSociety]]
If you blend your voice with other voices, you are virtually caught on a fishhook. From Wordnik.com. [The Metamorphosis, in The Penal Colony,and Other Stories] Reference
His wife's matching gray t-shirt has the same fishhook on it, and it says "I'm a Keeper.". From Wordnik.com. [IsThatLegal?] Reference
Hideyuke said as he brought the barbed end of the fishhook down onto Nicholas's left hand. From Wordnik.com. [Floating City]
One corner of his mouth twitched spastically, as if an invisible fishhook were buried there. From Wordnik.com. [Wizard and Glass]
He'd distracted both Justin and her with pain and slipped the fishhook in, neat as you please. From Wordnik.com. [Hunter,Healer[SequeltoTheSociety]]
My daughter is the only person in the world who can fishhook me and not get punched in the face. From Wordnik.com. [A new skill] Reference
Those acacia thorns are like nothing I have ever seen; finger-length and sharper than a fishhook. From Wordnik.com. [Kushiel's Avatar]
He ducked, the fishhook flashed over his head, and he struck Hideyuke in the stomach with an atemi. From Wordnik.com. [Floating City]
But you can't just pull it out, you have to back it out like a fishhook, because otherwise you will do. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 19, 2006] Reference
They were armed with swords of an odd pattern; their points curved up so that the blade resembled a fishhook. From Wordnik.com. [Key Out of Time] Reference
He drew forth a penny, a fishhook, a dried worm, two marbles, and -- there -- just the thing -- the game of Authors, which. From Wordnik.com. [Half-Past Seven Stories] Reference
I can't look him in the eye, so I focus instead on the cut on his face, a fishhook that curves down the side of his cheek. From Wordnik.com. [Vanishing Acts]
"Mamma says I can stick my toes in the water till the crabs bite me, but I'm going to have a fishhook and catch them first.". From Wordnik.com. [The Bobbsey Twins in the Country] Reference
But the red worm never reaches the goal of his visions and dreams until he is triumphantly impaled on the fishhook of the barefooted boy. From Wordnik.com. [Gov. Bob. Taylor's Tales] Reference
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