The Spanish barbel has developed one trait in advance of its English cousins, for it will rise to a fly, or at least to a grasshopper.
On willow-clad eyots nest lesser ring-dotterels and otters bask; while in the shaded depths beneath the fringing osiers lurk barbel intent to dash at belated grasshopper or cricket.
The fish most plentiful in Assyria are the same as in Babylonia, namely, barbel and carp.
Considering the size to which the carp and barbel actually grow at the present day, the ancient representations are smaller than might have been expected.
A grey partridge was bathing in the hot dry sand between the reed-beds and the bank, and in the deeper pools the barbel were rising at the flies.
At the valley-bottom a little stream, that would be a river after the first rains, wimpled over sandstone boulders, the barbelrose at flies.
Barbel are to be found in the strongest runs of water.
The barbel being a sharp biter, strike the moment you feel a nibble.
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With a pinky fairness of skin, he was like a young barbel frisking and gliding about in deep water.
However, it was the fat snowy-white barbel that supplied the liveliest brightness in this gigantic collection of still life.
For an hour a barbel came to net every five minutes; and there was no chance of loss, as the fish simply gulped at the worms and went off with them at once, and the hook had to be removed sometimes with a disgorger.
Why the barbel should choose that particular ground to try conclusions I am not aware.
That swim was diligently tried after our visit, but I had reason for knowing that not another barbel was taken there during the entire winter.
It must be confessed that if the barbelis of poor esteem as food, he is the very gamest of the coarse fishes and a fighter to the last.
My acquaintance with barbel is also so limited that it counts for little.
The uncertainty of barbel and barbel fishing was illustrated by the sequel to our day on the Thames.
The barbel took the gentles as freely as worms, and greaves as freely as gentles, but I noticed that the fish were smaller.
The first sight, however, must have been on the part of the fish, which went off in a fright deep down with renewed strength, and then it did surrender, a barbel of 6 lb.
The barbel is extremely capricious, abnormally so of late years in the Thames, and there are plenty of blanks to one fortunate day.
It spends hours in doing this, and a hungry barbel is sometimes so much occupied in its task that a swimmer has dived down to the bottom of the river and caught it with his hands.
From this curious way of feeding, and its great greediness, the barbel has sometimes been called the fresh-water pig.
He and the Barbel both feed so: and do not hunt for flies at any time, as most other fishes do.
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The Barbel is so called, says Gesner, by reason of his barb or wattles at his mouth, which are under his nose or chaps.
And some advise to fish for the Barbel with sheep's tallow and soft cheese, beaten or worked into a paste; and that it is choicely good in August: and I believe it.
After a few moments of silence, Barbel resumed: "I have no more to say to you, my young friend.
I had lost sight of Barbel for some years, and I had supposed him still floating on the sun-sparkling stream of prosperity where I had last seen him.
Barbel gazed at me silently for a moment, and then he pointed to the frame.
Barbel had an air of having been to let for a long time, and quite out of repair.
All these fish are capricious feeders, carp and barbelbeing particularly undependable.
Of these carp, tench and bream are either river or pool fish, while the barbel is found only in rivers, principally in the Thames and Trent.
The first consists of carp, tench, barbel and bream.
If barbel were fished for, the hook was allowed nearly to reach the bottom; if otherwise, it was kept but a little below the surface.
On the Vaal River, in South Africa, we caught barbelup to 27lb.
That would be all very well if he were like other people," asseverated stout Barbel warmly, "but you know what he is.
Barbel had only lived in Dorfli since her marriage, which had taken place not long before.
Dete shook hands with her friend and remained standing while Barbel went towards a small, dark brown hut, which stood a few steps away from the path in a hollow that afforded it some protection from the mountain wind.
Barbel was therefore determined not to lose this good opportunity of satisfying her curiosity.
Moreover, Barbelwas in ignorance as to why all the people in Dorfli called him Alm-Uncle, for he could not possibly be uncle to everybody living there.
The barbel is different from the barbel of England, being a handsomer fish and not so coarse; it is more golden in colour, and the scales are less thick.
Head, about one-fifth the whole length; snout, very blunt, with a small barbel on the lower lip.
I fear, nearer than Natal; only a small greenish barbelwho is a giant at four to the pound.
I do not think these South African fish are to be despised, for though they may be dead-hearted compared with a trout or a salmon, they give better sport than English coarse fish, and the barbel is quite as good as a pike.
The head is formed much as in the codfishes, with usually a barbel at the chin.
Several dwarf codfishes having, like the true cod, three dorsal fins and a barbel at the chin are also recorded.
In Polymixia, each barbelis suspended from the hypohyal; three rudimentary branchiostegals forming its thickened base.
The very young of most of these species have a long barbel at the chin which is lost with age.
In Mullus, each barbel is suspended from the trip of a slender projection of the ceratohyal, having no connection with the branchiostegals.
It is darker than the cod and more lustrous, and the lower jaw is longer, with a smaller barbel at tip.
In these the barbel is better developed than in most other genera, a character which seems to indicate a primitive organization.
Other distinctive characters are found in the skeleton, notably the absence of the subopercle, but the peculiar development of the maxillary and its barbel with the absence of scales is always distinctive.
One of the hybrids lacks barbels, one has a Semotilus-like barbel on the right side only, and one has a vestigial barbel on the right side and an anomalous barbel that is nearly terminal on the left upper lip.
In the horned dace and gudgeon the little barbel is attached to the maxillary.
The barbel or fleshy filament wherever developed is an organ of touch.
In the catfish the principal barbel grows from the rudimentary maxillary bone.
The barbel a foot long sold for five-pence, and twopence was added for each additional inch: a pike a foot long sold for sixteen pence, and increased a penny an inch.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "barbel" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: antenna; barb; barbel; bristle; feeler; fish; seta; spine; spur; stubble
