Pike Sentence Examples

The fish are sea-trout, lake-trout, pike and perch.

Perch, sunfish, trout, bass, pike and pickerel abound in many of the streams. Yellow perch are especially plentiful in the lakes on the Pocono plateau.

Pike led an exploring expedition as far north as Leech Lake and took formal possession of the Minnesota region for the United States.

The eggs are free in freshwater lakes and rivers, where they enter the bodies of pike, turbot and other fishes, and are thus eaten by man.

The retreat of the British force gave Chauncey time to complete this vessel, the "General Pike," which was so far superior to anything under Yeo's command that she was said to be equal in effective strength to the whole of the British flotilla.

It lies beneath the considerable elevation of Rivington Pike, where formerly was a great forest.

It is picturesquely situated in the lake country of Indiana on Center, Pike and Winona lakes.

The Elasmobranchs swallow infected molluscs or fish; pike and trout devour smaller fry; birds pick up sticklebacks, insects and worms which contain Cestode larvae; and man lays himself open to infection by eating the uncooked or partially prepared flesh of many animals.

The fisheries are all fresh-water, principally white-fish, pickerel and pike.

Tench if kept in suitable waters are extremely prolific, and as they grow within a few years to a weight of 3 or 4 lb, and are then fit for the table, they may be profitably introduced into ponds which are already stocked with other fishes, such as carp and pike.

Triaenophorus, indistinctly segmented, occurs in the pike.

Pike to explore the most favourable route for the conquest of the south-west.

He was enrolled as a volunteer in Apsley's company, then encamped before Genep on the Waal, but his commission was apparently complimentary, his military experience being limited to six days of camp life, during which, however, he took his turn at "trailing a pike."

The municipality owns and operates the water system, water being drawn from lakes near Pike's Peak.

Large numbers of fish, principally carp, pike and tench are still reared profitably, the pools being periodically dried up and the ground cultivated.

Other fish native to the waters of the state are the sturgeon, catfish, perch (locally called pike), buffalo fish, flathead and sucker.

The municipal water-supply is drawn from Pike's Peak, 10 m.

Then (early in October), turning nearly south, he marched to the Arkansas river, which he reached on the r4th of October, and up which (after the 28th with only 16 men) he went to the Royal Gorge (Dec. 7), having first seen the mountain called in his honour Pike's Peak on the 23rd of November; and then went north-west, probably up Oil Creek from Canon City.

His head was struck off by Richard, and was sent round the ports on a pike.

In 1906 diamonds were found in a peridotite dike in Pike county 22 m.

Pike, who came in 1805 and recommended the erection of a fort.

The upturning of the rocks of the Great Plains at the foot of the Front Range develops an interesting type of topography, the harder layers weathering into grotesquely curious forms, as seen in the famous Garden of the Gods at the foot of Pike's Peak.

It contains a number of fine summits dominated by Pike's Peak (14,108 ft.).

The last three places, all beautifully situated - the first at the base of Pike's Peak, the second in the Clear Creek Canyon, and the third at the junction of the Roaring Fork with the Grand river - have an especially high repute.

Pike, mapping the Arkansas and Red rivers of the Louisiana Territory for the government of the United States, followed the Arkansas into Colorado, incidentally discovering the famous peak that bears his name.

They are followed by the great sturgeon (Acipenser huso), the pike, the bream and the pike perch (Leucioperca sandra).

The lake, one of the most beautiful of the so-called "finger lakes" of central New York, abounds in lake and rainbow trout, black bass, pickerel and pike, and there are many summer cottages along its shores.

The rivers and lakes are generally well stocked with fish, such as salmon, trout of various species, gwyniad and vendace (especially in the north), pike, eels, perch of various species, turbot, bream and roach.

The few sportsmen who have visited the higher parts of the great northern rivers have found excellent trout-fishing, with pike, perch, char and grayling, the char occurring in the uppermost parts of the rivers, and the grayling below them.

In the brackish waters of the east coast sea fish are found, together with pike, perch and other fresh-water forms. The crayfish is common in many places in central and southern Sweden.

Constantly moving through Poitou and the Limousin, as the exigencies of the civil war required, occasionally taking his turn as a guard, at least on one occasion trailing a pike on an expedition against the Leaguers, with no access to libraries, and frequently separated even from his own books, his life during this period seems most unsuited to study.

Salmon, lampreys and eels are caught in some of the larger rivers; trout abound in the streams of the northern provinces; but many fresh-water fish common elsewhere in Europe, including pike, perch, tench and chub, are not found.

In this tract is found the highest land in England, Scafell Pike reaching 3210 ft.

Scafell and Scafell Pike (3162 and 3210 ft.), at the head of Wastwater, and Helvellyn (3118), at the head of Ullswater, are the loftiest amongst many summits the grandeur of whose outlines is not to be estimated by their moderate height.

It was in the main struggle of arquebus against pike, but it was not the arquebus alone, or even principally, that gave the victory to the French.

When the Swiss ranks had been disordered, the short pike and the sword came into play, and aided by the constable de Bourbon with a handful of the gendarmerie, the French right more than held its own until Alviano with the cavalry from Lodi rode on to the field and completed the rout of the Swiss.

Among European freshwater fishing-grounds, the Danube is only surpassed by the Volga; the most valuable fish being sturgeon and sterlet, mostly netted in the St George mouth; carp, often weighing 50 lb; pike, perch, tench and eels.

The most numerous and valuable fish are the lesser white fish (Coregonus artedi, Le Sueur), pickerel (Stizostedion vitreum, Walb.), pike (Lucius lucius, L.), and white fish (Coregonus clupeiformis, Mitchill), in the order named.

He soon decided to change his profession; and resolved to trail a pike as a soldier under the prince of Orange in the Low Countries.

The game fish include the bass (small-mouth and large-mouth), brook trout, pike, pickerel, and muskallonge, and there are many other large and small food fishes.

In 1907 19 springs were reported at which mineral waters were bottled and sold; they were in Allen, Hendricks, Pike, Bartholomew, Warren, Clark, Martin, Brown, Gibson, Wayne, Orange, Vigo and Dearborn counties.

The Wabash and Erie canal (1843), which connected Lake Erie with the Ohio river, entering the state in Allen county, east of Fort Wayne, and following the Wabash river to Terre Haute and the western fork of the White river from Worthington, Greene county, to Petersburg, Pike county, whence it ran south-south-west to Evansville; and the White Water canal from Hagerstown, Wayne county, mostly along the course of the White Water river, to Lawrenceburg, on the Ohio River, in the south-eastern corner of the state, although now abandoned, served an important purpose in their day.

But with the establishment of prairie commerce to Santa Fe (New Mexico), the waves of emigration to the Mormon land and to California, the growth of traffic to Salt Lake, and the explorations for a transcontinental railway, Kansas became well known, and was taken out of that mythical " Great American Desert," in which, thanks especially to Pike and to Washington Irving, it had been supposed to lie.

There are state hatcheries at Madison (for brook and rainbow trout), Bayfield (brook, rainbow and lake trout and whitefish), Oshkosh (lake trout, whitefish and wall-eyed pike), Minocqua (pike, bass and muskallonge), Delafield (black bass and wall-eyed pike) and Wild Rose (brook trout).

Again the mob invaded the Convention, murdered a deputy named Feraud who attempted to shield the president, and set his head on a pike.

Though fruit-trees will not bear there is an abundance of edible berries; the rivers and lakes abound with trout, perch, pike and other fish, and in the lower waters with salmon; and the cod, herring, halibut and Greenland shark in the northern seas attract numerous Norwegian and Russian fishermen.

Oysters, crabs, shrimp and terrapins are also abundant here, and in the inland streams are some pike, perch, trout and catfish.

Pike; the military reserve which Pike bought from the Indians included a greater portion of the west side of the present city.

Other historic industries of Lincolnshire are the breeding of horses and dogs and rabbitsnaring; the Witham was noted for its pike; and ironstone was worked in the south, now chiefly in the north and west.

Many who had migrated to Pike's Peak in 18J9, stopped in Nebraska on their return eastward; and settlement was stimulated by the national Homestead Act of 1862 (one of the first patents granted thereunder, on the 1st of January 1863, was for a claim near Beatrice, Nebraska), and by the building and land-sales of the Union Pacific and Burlington railways following 1863.

Loki thereupon went back to the stream, where Andvari in the form of a pike was guarding a great treasure, caught him in a net, and forced him to surrender his hoard.

There are a few speckled trout in the mountain streams, but the commoner fish are bass, perch, catfish, crappies, pike, drum buffalo, carp, suckers and eels.

Sadly, the errors on the part of Mr. Pike were particularly egregious.

Dennis Pye was inspirational to generation of pike anglers.

Other trout fisheries - notably Lake of Menteith - have successfully extended their seasons by allowing privileged access pike angling events.

Cross the col then make the steep ascent NW then N to the summit of Red Pike.

By comparison, a Northern Pike was just a tasty and rather bony meal.

Away, then, with the dagger and the pike, ere you become brigands and outlaws!

The organizing committee aims to give the Dutch or European way of fly fishing for pike a central place.

New born cygnets are mainly lost to crows, herons, magpies, turtles, pike and large perch.

Young Luke, seven years old was out in the Fens with his Dad on his first Winter Pike fishing expedition.

Carlsons fishing Tackle South Cumbria fishing tackle dealer specializing mainly in game and pike fishing.

The pike didn't seem fussy about the color.

It must have been annoying for Alice Pike to have to break a note to pay for a relatively insubstantial amount.

Best pike of the week fell to Jason Knowles, Jason ledgered a small mackerel dead bait out from peg 34.

Part of the complex northeast ridge of Scafell Pike, it looms large in the mountain panorama south of Borrowdale.

I would rather hand and unhook the pike in the water.

Everyone had caught pike during the day with a total nearly 40 fish.

The red color is an added attraction, provoking pike into attacking, these poppers are however resistant to pike's teeth.

The red color is an added attraction, provoking pike into attacking, these poppers are however resistant to pike into attacking, these poppers are however resistant to pike's teeth.

Andy Bowden also had a good day early week catching a fit 15lb pike from peg 25 despite ice being on the lake.

Surely with 20lb pike on the cards, I stood a good chance of a result here?

Surprise of the week was a 13lb 8oz pike caught by regular Kevin Fay.

Saying that, the odd pike to low doubles are being reported.

Or how about big, northern pike in the Baltic Sea, yes, living there out in the salt?

As female pike may contain several hundred thousand eggs; their large size is essential to store such a huge mass.

My luck and my nerves held and I stared down at a stunning double-figure pike.

The latter was followed to the net by a jack pike of similar size!

I landed a small pike, then recast the same bait to another spot.

Each egg sinker is carefully designed to balance Fox pike floats.

Fred Davies was fishing for bream and using 2 sweet corn when he had a bite and reeled in a 5lb pike.

Seen from High Pike itself it's just a gentle swell in the moorland a mile or so to the southwest.

Fellwalking High Pike Ambleside 3rd September at 17.35 A woman slipped and sustained a fracture tibia and fibula.

With the jaw fully open a cleanly hooked Pike can not be fairly easily unhooked through the mouth opening.

Mike Johns had a good day on Saturday the 5th, catching a very fit pike weighing 15lb 4oz together with a small zander.

Fishing pegs 39 and 37, Mark fished lamprey and herring taking both big zander on each bait with the pike falling to lamprey.

There are 30 lb carp, pike to mid-twenties and double-figure zander.

Fish are abundant, especially coarse fish such as pike, perch, roach, dace and barbel.

Other freshwater fish are the perch, black bass, pike, pickerel and white fish.

There is a state board of commissioners of fisheries (see below, § Government), which distributed in 1908 149,338,069 eggs, fry and fingerlings, including 112,075,000 wall-eyed pike and about 12,000,000 each of lake trout and whitefish.

In the summer in Sweden the pike can be found lying in the shallow reedy margins of the lakes.

Some pike are silvery in appearance while others are dark and have vivid yellow spots.

There are chapters on tying Hairy trout flies, salmon, sea trout and steelhead flies, and bass and pike bugs.

Seen from High Pike itself it 's just a gentle swell in the moorland a mile or so to the southwest.

Then the pike dropped off, swirling away from the sudden indignity in a great huff of silt.

This will give anglers the chance to Pike Fish this exclusive syndicate lake.

Now, in 1891, we see a common or garden boot-maker like Henry Stables toddling up Scafell Pike for a jaunt.

The pike was far too unwieldy to use in close combat Type or group of weapons - Polearm - A group of pole-mounted weapons.

Again, most of the action was from smaller pike and zander with the odd better fish being reported.

The Pocono Mountains are in Pennsylvania, United States, in Pike and Monroe counties.

This one, by Pike Street is ideal for a teen's bedroom.

At the same time, LG spokesman Paul Pike is quoted as saying that the output levels were "marginally higher" than the standard and the recall comes from a need to be "overly cautious."

Building 10, Room 3S231. 9000 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20892.

It's hard to find a child who will remember where Pike's Peak and the Ganges River are located and harder to find one who will care.

Auto shows are where auto manufacturers show off the latest and greatest cars coming down the pike for the next model year.

Start the exercise ball tuck like you started the exercise ball pike, with your shins resting on top of the exercise ball, your body in a straight, pushup position.

Captain Christopher Pike was the first in the pilot episode titled The Cage, but when the first regular episode aired, Captain Kirk was at the the Captain's chair.

He served as the science officer under Christopher Pike and as first officer and science officer under Captain Kirk.

Or if beef isn't your dish, sample the seafood including jumbo shrimp, pike, salmon, scallops or lobster, or the chicken breast or strips.

The menu features fresh local catches, such as pike, perch, and bullhead, and an assortment of other reliably delicious entrees and sandwiches.

On the moors to the north-west, and including Rivington Pike (1192 ft.), is another public park, and there are various smaller pleasure grounds.

The lakes, ponds and streams afford some of the best trout fishing in the country, and many of them also abound in pickerel, pike, perch, black bass and land-locked salmon.

The most valuable fish taken was walleyed pike, and the catch of this fish and of pickerel from Lake Champlain in 1902 exceeded in value that from any other body of fresh water in the United States excepting Lake Huron and Lake Erie.

Trout are taken in most of the loughs, and pike of great size in the Loughs Erne.

Fish taken in the lakes include perch, pike, char and trout in Windermere, Ennerdale, Bassenthwaite, Derwentwater, &c., and the gwyniad or fresh-water herring in Ullswater.

In the rivers and lakes pike, pickerel, white fish and sturgeon supply food for the natives, and the brook trout is found in the small mountain streams. The turtle and frog also appear.

The kinds of greatest economic value are sturgeon, shad, salmon, lampreys, eels, pike and whiting.

Having no spines to their fins, the Gadids used, in Cuvierian days, to be associated with the herrings, Salmonids, pike, &c., in the artificially-conceived order of Malacopterygians, or soft-finned bony fishes.

When the head of the deputy, Jean Feraud, was presented to him on the end of a pike, he saluted it impassively.

The terms pike, pick, mandril and slitter are applied to the collier's pick in different districts, the men being known as pikemen or hewers.

The hills immediately above this part of the valley are Wansfell on the east, Loughrigg Fell on the west, and Rydal Fell and the ridge below Snarker Pike (2096 ft.) to the north.

The Elbe produces excellent pike, salmon and eels, its tributaries trout in considerable quantities, while the marshy ponds lying on the left bank furnish a good supply of carp, a fish held in great esteem by the inhabitants.

If the king led the ruszenie pospolite abroad he was obliged to pay so much per pike out of his own pocket, notwithstanding the fact that the heavily mortgaged crown lands were practically valueless.

After this failure he departed once more to the wars to the siege of Metz (1552), and "trailed a pike" in the emperor's army, until he joined the forces under William, Lord Grey of Wilton, with whom he says he served eight years.

It is navigable by vessels of 50 tons as far up as Bridge of Earn, and is a notable fishing stream, abounding with salmon and trout, perch and pike being also plentiful.

A quartz schist, suitable for making whetstones and oilstones, was discovered in 1823 by Isaac Pike at Pike Station, Grafton county, and the Pike Manufacturing Company now owns and operates quarries outside this state also; in 1907 New Hampshire was the principal producer of scythe-stones in the United States, and the total value of whetstones made in 1907 (including the value of precious stones') was $59,870.

The Pocono plateau, into which the central province merges at its north-east extremity, is a continuation of the Catskill plateau southward from New York and covers Wayne, Pike and Monroe counties and the east portion of Carbon county.

Pike-perch and a few blue pike are taken in the Susquehanna, where shad are no longer plentiful since work was begun on McCall's Ferry dam, and in 1908 the entire catch for the river was valued at about $20,000, but in the Delaware there are valuable shad 'and herring fisheries.

The blue pike, whitefish and herring, obtained on Lake Erie are of;,;, considerable commercial importance.

In 1908 the total catch on Lake Erie was valued at $200,869, the principal items being herring ($90,108), blue pike ($13,657) and whitefish ($31,580).

There were eight hatcheries in 1910 and the number of fish distributed from these during 1908 was about 662,000,000; they consisted chiefly of pickerel, yellow perch, walleyed pike, white fish, herring, blue pike, trout and shad.

The carp and salmon tribes are the most abundant; after them rank the pike, the eel, the shad, the roach, the perch and the lamprey.

Further light was thrown on the relations of Franz Josef Land and Spitsbergen during 1897 by the discoveries of Captain Robertson of Dundee, and Wyche's Land was circumnavigated by Mr Arnold Pike and Sir Savile Crossley.

The fish are mainly the coarser species, such as carp, buffalo-fish and white perch; of better food fish, the principal varieties are bass (black, striped and rock), crappie, pike, "jack salmon" or walleyed pike, and sun fish.

Before long gaps appeared in the close ranks of pike heads, and after sufficient preparation Edward again launched his men-at-arms to the charge.

He was armed with a musketoon (which he carried rather as a joke), a pike and an ax, which latter he used as a wolf uses its teeth, with equal ease picking fleas out of its fur or crunching thick bones.

There are Federal hatcheries at Swanton (for pike perch and yellow perch) and at Holden (for trout).

The wall-eyed pike taken in 1902 were valued at $16,915 (210,936 lb); white fish, $5777 (80,191 lb); pickerel, $4144 (51,711 lb); yellow perch, $ 2 575 (43,9 1 7 lb); sturgeon, $20 5 1 (1 5,59 0 lb), and suckers, $ 18 54 (37,375 lb); other varieties taken in smaller quantities included smelt, sun-fish and eels.

Buffalo-fish, paddle-fish, cat-fish, drum, crappie, black bass, rock bass, German carp, sturgeon, pike, perch, eels, suckers and shrimp inhabit the waters of the Mississippi and its tributaries, and oysters, shrimp, trout, Spanish mackerel, channel bass, black bass, sheepshead, mullet, croakers, pompano, pin-fish, blue-fish, flounders, crabs and terrapin are obtained from the Mississippi Sound and the rivers flowing into it.

In some cases, as in Catasetum, male flowers are produced so different from the female that before the different flowers had been found on the same pike, and before the facts of the case were fully known, they were taken to be representatives of distinct genera.

He was city attorney for Louisiana (Mo.) and Bowling Green from 1878 to 1881, was prosecuting attorney for Pike co.

Within this circle, besides the largest lake, Windermere, is the highest point in England, Scafell Pike; yet Windermere is but 102 m.

East of Wasdale lies the range of Scafell (q.v.), its chief points being Scafell (3162 ft.), Scafell Pike (3210), Lingmell (2649) and Great End (2984), while the line is continued over Esk Hause Pass (2490) along a fine line of heights (Bow Fell, 2960; Crinkle Crags, 2816), to embrace the head of Eskdale.

Their distinctive arm was the great Macedonian pike (sarissa), some 14 ft.

A captain of landsknechts, Fabian by name, holding his long pike crosswise, brought it down with all his force upon the opposing spears, and at the cost of his life made a narrow gap through which the French broke into the mass of the enemy.