And so we find that a proportionately very large amount of the New England fisheries is conducted by fishermen who have come from Norway.
The settlers were rude fishermen without commanders, and, according to the French accounts, without religion or morals.
The French had but one post of any consequence on the Island of Newfoundland, the fort and village at Placentia Bay; while the English fishermen had formed a line of settlements two or three hundred miles along the eastern coast.
All Acadia was comprised in these various stations, more or less permanent, together with one or two small posts on the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and the huts of an errant population of fishermen and fur traders.
She had confidently believed that ignorance and inexperience could match the skill of a tried veteran, and that the rude courage of her fishermen and farmers could triumph without discipline or leadership.
It is filled with one quivering mass of silver, and into this mass the fishermen dip baskets and toss the fish into the boats by scores and hundreds.
In a short time there was an uproar in the village street; one of the fishermenappeared to be beating his wife severely, and there was a great hubbub for a time.
From the surface the shoal cannot be seen, but the "huers" aloft can make out every movement of the vast mass offish, and guide the fishermen below.
Wessex has not many rivers, and most of them are not of any great size, but they are famous among fishermen for the splendid trout which they breed.
Her coasts are dotted with hamlets, each with its little quay or open beach, where her fishermen hoist their brown sails and set off, as evening falls, to reap the harvest of the waters.
If you should go for a stroll on the cliffs about the Lizard some fine morning in July, you would see fishermen there, smoking and staring out to sea in, as it would seem to you, an idle fashion.
Now the fishermen get out their mighty seine-nets and prepare to wall up the multitude of pilchards.
Often for fishermen the tapas were made water-proof by added thicknesses and the employment of gums, and waterproof cloth for wrappings was made thick and impervious to rain as the oilcloth it resembled.
A score of lights moved about on the dark waters of the bay, and fishermenshouted to us to come to them.
It is a fruit not to be eaten by man, but immemorally used by lazy fishermen to insure miraculous draughts.
It seems that he had been a carpenter, and after that a fisherman, and that his fellow-fishermen had ceased dragging their nets and followed him in his wandering life.
When fishermen first hunted whales 400 years ago, these animals grew to bigger sizes than they do today.
Old legends even claim that these cetaceans led fishermen to within a mere seven leagues of the North Pole.
Fishermen gather in the Gulf of Mannar only during the month of March, and for thirty days some 300 boats concentrate on the lucrative harvest of these treasures from the sea.
The harpooner's family originated in Quebec, and they were already a line of bold fishermen back in the days when this town still belonged to France.
One proceeds in several ways, and often when pearls stick to the valves, fishermen even pull them loose with pliers.
I'm sure the Canadian was sorry that thesefishermen couldn't harpoon our sheet-iron cetacean and mortally wound it.
But these fishermen generally don't live to advanced age: their vision weakens, ulcers break out on their eyes, sores form on their bodies, and some are even stricken with apoplexy on the ocean floor.
Subsequently, at the beginning of the 18th century, they were named the Malouines by fishermen from Saint-Malo in Brittany, then finally dubbed the Falklands by the English, to whom they belong today.
I believe the average time underwater that these fishermen can tolerate is thirty seconds, during which they hastily stuff their little nets with all the pearl oysters they can tear loose.
The Nautilus's fishermen had some trouble getting a grip on this animal, which, thanks to the formation of its gill covers, can protect its respiratory organs from any parching contact with the air and can live out of water for a good while.
French fishermen give them the name "cuckoldfish," and they belong to the class Cephalopoda, family Dibranchiata, consisting of themselves together with cuttlefish and argonauts.
That is strange," she answered anxiously, "since here no fishermen ever come.
Your fishermen have landed, Rosamund," he said, "and doubtless gone up to Bradwell.
Four fishermen there launched a boat for them, and rowing out under the little island of Inch Marnock, they then hoisted sail and sped across the Sound of Bute with a fresh western wind.
Near him were some fishermen unloading their herring boat.
And he bade me tell you that should King Alexander commission you on any dangerous enterprise, there are threescore of fishermen at your service over at Kilmory.
There is a fishing coracle coming alongside of us, my master," said he, "with two fishermen in her.
Three of them were anchored in Dunagoil Bay, with many fishermen and husbandmen -- untrained in battle -- ready at hand in case Allan Redmain required them.
I suppose the natives of the Lewis must have been fishermen from the very earliest times.
Then all around lies the great blue sea, shining like sapphire in the sun, and flecked with tiny sails, where the fishermen are busy at their calling.
Probably a few farmers, a few shepherds, and a sprinkling of gamekeepers; and it is just possible that a few fishermen also may be allowed to settle down here and there upon the coast.
The fishermen of Lewis and Barra are bold, stalwart fellows, whom it would be difficult to peer amongst any similar class of men on the mainland.
But indeed all deep-sea fishermen possess the last quality.
The Office of the Mission to Deep-Sea Fishermen is 181 Queen Victoria Street, London, EC, at the date of publication of this book.
Its rig was so similar to that of the other smacks that a stranger might have taken it for one of the fleet but the fishermen knew better.
A noble lady with lots o' tin an' a warm heart has presented a smack all complete to our Deep-Sea Fishermen Institootion.
The fishermen who went for baccy, remained for schnapps, and some of them were very soon more than half drunk.
God had put it into the heart of the present Director of the Mission to Deep-Sea Fishermen to inaugurate a system of evangelisation among the heretofore neglected thousands of men and boys who toil upon the North Sea from January to December.
North Sea fishermen are so used to danger that they are apt to despise it.
The fishermen turned their drunken eyes in the direction indicated, and, after blinking a few seconds, clearly made out the large blue flag, with its letters MDSF, fluttering in the light breeze that had risen with the sun.
The operation of dressing was watched with the deepest interest and curiosity by the fishermen assembled there, for it was their first experience of the value, even in temporal matters, of a Gospel ship.
It is perfectly congruous with the habits of fishermen and the character of the instruments which they employ.
When the fishermen have at last drawn the net wholly out of the water and secured its contents on dry land, they sit down to examine leisurely the worth of their capture, and to separate the precious from the vile.
As soon as it has been spread, the fishermen begin to draw it at both ends slowly and steadily towards the land.
Every one who has watched the operations offishermen on the shore is familiar with the appearance of star-fish and other low forms of marine life, which are drawn out by the nets, and cast away upon the sand.
The fishermen prosecuted their avocation sometimes with line and baited hooks, sometimes with boat and nets.
Fishermen stared from the shore at this unparalleled exhibition of skill, coolness, courage and strength from Scud.
Fishermen treated him with a grudged respect, and when he was pointed out to every new squad of boarders as the bravest man on the whole coast, they smiled.
New England fishermen will take a gift as a sort of neighborly accommodation to you; but he'll starve before he will ask you for it.
He makes the surest and perhaps the best living of any of the fishermenaround here.
The fishermenand the summer people looked into each other's eyes, but no man answered a word.
These sudden and violent gusts that come through the gullies between the mountains are dreaded by the fishermen of to-day as they were in Peter's time.
But very often there would be no fishermen at all, and they would see nobody for hours and hours, and hear nothing but the cries of the river-birds and the suck, suck, of the feeding trout.
It was under the roots of some of these trees, as they pushed through the water into the soil beneath, that the biggest of the trout had their nests, where fishermen with flies couldn't reach them.
Few were standing out to sea, and that, and the sight of a fleet of fishermen running in to their ports, showed that no ordinary weather lay behind the fast-driving fog-wreaths.
Dull, muddy water flowing swiftly seawards; straight rip in the channel, and a race where the high banks are; a race that the Greek fishermen show holy pictures to, when the springs are flowing!
The hunters and fishermen brought into camp the spoils of the forest and the treasures of the sea, while the grinning negress exerted herself to prepare the parting feast.
Now, no man's got a rite to waste anything, so we fishermen begun to pay sum attention to the opium-smokers in good arnest.
Fishermen had warned me of its dismal shades, and of the wild cattle which roamed unheeded through its dreary recesses.
The rich people, who came in the summer in search of rest and refreshment, did not interest themselves in the villagers, and the villagers themselves were mostly hard-working fishermen with little time or money to devote to others.
When they reached the beach he lingered to watch the fishermen bring their boat in over the surf, leaving Nan to walk the rest of the way home alone.
Half-a-dozen fishermen volunteered their services to get the tackle once again in order.
As we proceed, let us note that every year the Association sends to the fishermen and sailors excellent barometers at a price three times less than their sale price in private shops.
I fought through it till the winter came, and then the fishermen turned me adrift again.
It was near the coast and I took a turn with the fishermen next.
The fishermen are generally rather poor, but the more enterprizing members of the fraternity often pass from the sailing of a fishing boat to that of a coasting vessel.
Some of the fishermen prosecute their craft only “inshore,” using small boats, remaining out but a few hours and fishing with hand lines as well as with trawls from the dories.
This is the character of the faith of these hardy fishermen and farmers on the river.
It was more like a barracks than a home; and from the ancient and fishy smell about the place, the party from the battleship was sure that it had not long since housed fishermen and their nets.
The local fishermen and navigators of small craft appreciated the coming of this second storm on the heels of the first.
The fishermen were curious about the boys and the business of the chaser in this locality; but the Navy boys had long since learned to say nothing that would circulate information of any moment.
The old fishermen would tell you as they waited for a bite that the German was fichu, their faith in the credit of France unimpaired as they lived on the income of the savings of their industry before they retired.
M] With William and Mary's reign also began the giving of indirect bounties to fishermenfor the catching and curing of fish.
BB] Besides the Admiralty subventions, retainer bounties are paid to merchant seamen and fishermen of the Royal Naval Reserve.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fishermen" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
