Waltonian

I was here introduced to many members of the fishing club -- men of the place -- and became a member of the Stanley Anglers, where I won some prizes, and of the somewhat famous and somewhat high-class True Waltonian Society, which met at Stoke Newington.

Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler William Senior

Serton, electing for a little Waltonian luxury, sat him down in comfort, plumbed a hard bottom in six feet of water, caught a dace at the first swim, and, with his cockney-bred maggots, took five others in succession -- three roach, and a bleak which he reported in town, at the

Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler William Senior

Bethune, Rev. Dr, Waltonian Library of, 87 _et seq.

The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author John Hill Burton

Waltonian cases, hanging baskets, Wardian cases, &c., our ladies may adorn their parlors with _artistic_ taste with these fragrant, fragile, rainbow-hued children of Nature.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 4, October, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

Of course, my necessary compliance with the prejudices of the guardian of the fish prevented the exercise of my Waltonian propensities.

A Peep into Toorkisthhan Rollo Gillespie Burslem

Waltonian Library, the, of Rev. Dr Bethune, 87 _et seq.

The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author John Hill Burton

It has only very lately occurred to me that both you and I are somewhat changed since we placed the _summum bonum_ in Waltonian idleness, and that you have very possibly renounced fly-fishing, and settled down into a literary incubation, likely to bless the world with a brood of booklings.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847. Various

And, to push our conceit no further, they say that this wary animal will never venture over a bridge till he has tried its strength, and is assured that it can bear him; and if we except the solitary break-down in the Waltonian controversy, our disputant was as cautious in choosing his ground as he was formidable when once he took up his position.

The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 Various

Columba is described as out a-fishing one day with a parcel of his disciples, who are characterised as "strenui piscatores," a term which would be highly applicable to many a Waltonian of the present day.

The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author John Hill Burton

We were beginning to dismiss ugly Rebeccaism from our thoughts, meditating where we should find one of those Isaac Waltonian hostelries, with a sign swinging from an old tree, which we delight to make our evening quarters; for Pontardulais, we knew, was too lately a little battle-field to afford hope of this tranquil bliss, for here had occurred the first conflict, in which men had been wounded and prisoners made.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843 Various