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Example sentences for "fishers"

Lexicographically close words:
fished; fisherfolk; fisheries; fisherman; fishermen; fishery; fishes; fishhook; fishhooks; fishing
  1. So with clasped hands he prayed and wept; but none helped him; and as fishers set their stakes they planted him deep in the stream.

  2. Now at that Rock-tumble you spoke of there were many cormorant-fishers who every night went secretly to their fishing.

  3. And here on the shore of Suma On Stick of the Salt-kilns The fishers blow their tune.

  4. We slept with fishers in their huts On pillows of sand.

  5. Pitch and tar were kept burning during the night at the openings of the infected lanes; the clothes of the dead were burned; many of the fishers left their cottages and lived in the caves on the hill until the danger was past[1505].

  6. In the sea-board parish of Rathen, smallpox occurred among the fishers (VI.

  7. The men engaged in the traffic were hardy and bold, no weather deterring them from long voyages to Newfoundland and Labrador, while whale-fishers ventured into the Arctic seas.

  8. M508) We had also beene the space of foure dayes since we departed from our Fort, without eating any thing, sauing little pinockes, and a little fish, which we got of the fishers which wee met sometimes along the riuer.

  9. It is in length about twelue leagues, in sight very pleasant, but full of woods, no part of it manured, vnlesse it be in certaine places, where a few cottages be for Fishers dwellings as before we haue said.

  10. So they came into the Severn sea, and lay for a fortnight or more under Lundy Island, watching for us as a cat watches for a mouse, and getting news now and then from Welsh fishers from Milford Haven.

  11. Then as I sorrowed that the lonely shepherds and fishers might no more hear its call, I seemed to see a vision of an angel who bade me see what had been sent me instead.

  12. The Spaniards, some twenty or thirty then, had no warning, and the Frenchmen had an easy job to carry off all the treasure that the captain had stored up, and in the tumult a great part of the fishers made off and were never seen more.

  13. Aforetime, as I have heard tell, the fishers lived in huts around; but about six year ago a French vessel bore suddenly down upon the place.

  14. To Julien's startled fancy, the fishers had ceased to be;--lo!

  15. And still the fishers outbound, or scudding from the squall, With grave and reverent faces, the ancient tale recall, When they see the white waves breaking on the Rock of Avery's Fall!

  16. Massachusetts shall hear Of the Huguenot's wrong, And from island and creekside Her fishers shall throng!

  17. Yet away sailed Parson Avery, away where duty led, And the voice of God seemed calling, to break the living bread To the souls of fishers starving on the rocks of Marblehead.

  18. The Mediterranean fishers generally toss the fish to land with no display of science, but Asphalion's imaginary capture was a monster.

  19. From the cliffs and their seat among the bright red berries on the arbutus shrubs, his shepherds flute to each other, as they watch the tunny fishers cruising far below, while the echo floats upwards of the sailors' song.

  20. Did it ever occur to you that while women may be skillful fishers of men, and will even make them bite at the bare hook, they make the poorest trout fishers in the world?

  21. His peasants and fishers make beautiful, noble, and often magnificent groups.

  22. He was the son of one of those Norwegian giants who are one day tillers of the soil and on the morrow fishers or herdsmen and hunters, who cross the sea in their youth as sailors and clear the waste land when they return home.

  23. Of course, fishers are early risers, and they went trampling about confusedly.

  24. M196) There is a certain rule observed by savage hunters and fishers which, enigmatical at first sight, may possibly be explained by this savage belief in resurrection.

  25. It was customary for fish-dealers to go down to greet fishers on their return from the night's toil, in order to buy up fish.

  26. We, like these, have embarked in a great fishing enterprise--we are fishers of men!

  27. Carmintel also bothered us, for he kept us busy among the shad-fishers of San Pablo, so that we had little time to spare on the King of the Greeks.

  28. Forthwith he grew proud and boastful: and, our raid with the Mary Rebecca on the Sunday salmon fishers having wrought fear in their hearts, he sent a challenge up to Benicia.

  29. You'll see fishers of the Dogger Banks, and boats that go to Newfoundland, where the cod do feed.

  30. He knew the Islay men, great rugged fishers with immense hands and their feet small as a girl's.

  31. The fishers of fish became the fishers of men.

  32. And he said unto them, 'Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.

  33. He shared with Peter in the honor of the call of the Lord on the sea shore, and in the promise "I will make you fishers of men.

  34. Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men," said Jesus to fishermen who afterward became His apostles (Matt.

  35. To Simon and Andrew Jesus said: "Come ye after me, and I will make you to become fishers of men.

  36. I will have never a noble, No lineage counted great; Fishers and choppers and ploughmen Shall constitute a state.

  37. The best places in which to set for fishers is in the timbered ravines, especially where two ravines join.

  38. I have also caught fishers by building a pen on an old log, lying with one end above the ground.

  39. Because there is His promise: "If you follow Me, I will make you fishers of men.

  40. Well, Christ says, "Follow Me, and I will make you fishers of men.


  41. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fishers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.