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Samlet or Skegger Trout (in both which places I have caught twentie or fortie at a standing) that will bite as fast and as freely as Minnows; these be by some taken to be young Salmons, but in those waters they never grow to bee bigger then a Herring.

The Compleat Angler 2007

And you are further to know, that there be certaine waters that breed Trouts remarkable, both for their number and smalness — I know a little Brook in Kent that breeds them to a number incredible, and you may take them twentie or fortie in an hour, but none greater then about the size of a

The Compleat Angler 2007

Angler, if he has found where they lye, may catch fortie or fiftie, or sometimes twice so many at a standing.

The Compleat Angler 2007

Sir Francis Bacon [in his History of Life and Death] observes the Pike to be the longest lived of any fresh water fish, and yet that his life is not usually above fortie years; and yet Gesner mentions a Pike taken in

The Compleat Angler 2007

Mr. Welch preach, then they might fine me in fortie shillings

Lay Morals 2005

Also there are fortie castles betweene Kersoua and Soldaia, euery one of which almost haue their proper languages: amongst whome there were many

The iournal of frier William de Rubruquis a French man of the order of the minorite friers, vnto the East parts of the worlde. An. Dom. 1253. 2004

From thence passing along the riuer Eastward, after many dayes trauell, and the sight of the diuers cities, I arriued at a citie called Sumakoto, which aboundeth more with silke then any other citie in the world: for when there is great scarcitie of silke, fortie pound is sold for lesse then eight groates.

The Journal of Friar Odoric 2004

In the greatest sometimes fortie, and sometimes fiftie.

A briefe commentarie of Island, by Arngrimus Ionas 2003

In the yeere of our Lord eight hundred fortie and sixe Harold

A briefe commentarie of Island, by Arngrimus Ionas 2003

Southeast and by South eight and fortie leagues, thinking thereby to find the Wardhouse.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003