I say, I mean to set a night-line, and ketch that gentleman.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fire Island Being the Adventures of Uncertain Naturalists in an Unknown Track] Reference

Then he took to his oars, and rowed to the end of his night-line, tied to the wharf.    From Wordnik.com.  [Old Man Savarin and Other Stories] Reference

"Yes, indeed, grandmother," echoed little Baptiste, thinking of his failure on the night-line.    From Wordnik.com.  [Old Man Savarin and Other Stories] Reference

On repairing to the spot next morning, and pulling up his night-line, he found that the magician had failed to.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peeps At Many Lands: Australia] Reference

My servant thought it a good place for fishing and accordingly set a night-line, one end of which he fastened to the bough of a tree.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia — Complete] Reference

We'll get some of the fellows to lend us a rope with a loose end, and a hook, and we'll set a night-line for the beggar, and catch him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rajah of Dah] Reference

If his hens laid eggs, they were stolen; and if he set a night-line in the river, some one else always pulled it out and stole the fish and the hooks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Old Peter's Russian Tales] Reference

They went to the place, and, looking in the long grass, soon found the dead trout, still on the night-line, of which the other end remained in the water.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Brown at Oxford] Reference

There were better cricketers, better football players, better hands at setting a night-line, better swimmers than Clem, but he could do something, and do it well, in all these departments.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mark Rutherford's Deliverance] Reference

Yes, it's one of those days. night-line was off yesterday (no Iranian hostage news to report on), I'll just go right into the links for today: did the Rams improve this offseason, and where?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Turf Show Times] Reference

With all that he could extract from the keeper, and his own experience in such matters, it had taken him several hours 'hunting up and down the river that afternoon before he had hit on a night-line.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Brown at Oxford] Reference

As he pushed his boat off, the morning fog was chillier than frost about him; but his heart got lighter as he rowed toward his night-line, and he became even eager for the pleasure of handling his fish.    From Wordnik.com.  [Old Man Savarin and Other Stories] Reference

That day little Baptiste had taken much trouble with his night-line; he was proud of the plentiful bait, and now, as he felt the tightened rope with his fingers, he told himself that his well-filled hooks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Old Man Savarin and Other Stories] Reference

I caught a four-pounder on a night-line last week. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Young Castellan A Tale of the English Civil War] Reference

"The chaps as catches the big fishes, sir," went on the keeper, getting confidential, "is thay cussed night-line poachers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Brown at Oxford] Reference

I got a fish on a night-line this morning.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fur Bringers A Story of the Canadian Northwest] Reference