He must have been in some thicket spreading nets for game which he eats raw.
A little distance from the nets lay the Fountain of the Hinds, now frozen hard.
They were enabled by the guidance of Jesus to take such a draft of fishes that their nets were strained and their boats so loaded as nearly to sink.
And when he had left speaking, he said unto Simon, Put out into the deep, and let down your nets for a draught.
And when they had done this, they inclosed a great multitude of fishes; and their nets were breaking; 7 and they beckoned unto their partners in the other boat, that they should come and help them.
There were many mosquitoes in this section, but effective mosquito nets over our cots protected us from them.
Four mosquito nets for one-half tents, 9 feet long.
There was the cricket-professional in the field outside, whistling as he put up the nets for practice, but there would be no practice for David to-day.
Mingled with the crowd at the nets on the other side of the field was a figure in gaiters and a shovel-hat just taking off his coat and betraying—an added horror—a brown flannel shirt.
In the course of the day, we passed through a large fleet of fishing-junks, dragging their huge nets before the wind.
The injury to their trade lay rather in the difficulty of getting to their fishing-grounds, and in the disturbance of these by cruisers, with little respect for their nets and lines.
The spiders, as we have seen, have a spinning arrangement by which they form beautiful webs or nets to capture prey.
A large dragnet is set in shallow water to which the horse is fastened, the fisherman, mounted, driving the animal over the shallow flats, hauling the nets inshore.
Often, when the fishermen are busy in their boats, setting their nets for herring, a troupe of Tunnies will come along, and chase the herring in every direction, swallowing every unfortunate fellow that they can catch.
The nets took: other girls were taught; and Mrs. Woodlock went to all the shops in Cork, and coaxed the merchants to buy of her.
Ten of the best workers from the first school were taken to teach these girls; and, for a salary, the teacher received the first perfect dozen of nets made by each of her pupils.
She did it so well, that Mrs. Woodlock taught her to make silk netsfor the hair.
O idle fishermen, using only thenets of others, which when torn it is all ye can do to clumsily repair, but can net no new ones of your own!
What little fish could evade in turn their hooks and nets and snares?
They light torches or straw, and then beat the bushes, upon which the Bats, flying to the flames, are caught, either with nets or otherwise.
In Germany the Shad is taken by means of nets, to which bows of wood, hung with a number of little bells, are attached in such a manner as to chime in harmony when the nets are moved.
The nets are hauled in, the fish flung out on the river banks, and the same process begins de novo.
Indeed, their toes are supplementary fingers, and they often hold things between the big toe and the next, as when making nets or Inaos (wooden wands with overhanging shavings).
When the long nets are ready, and one end of them is fastened to the shore, they launch the boat, which is rowed rapidly by twenty or thirty strong men, while the net is dropped as the boat goes along.
A short time before I arrived at Okos a man had gone out in his boat to save some nets in which a large fish had got entangled.
River fishing-nets are generally made of young vines twisted.
Now cast your nets wherever you wish,-- Never afeard are we!
A tress of golden hair, A drownèd maiden's hair, Above the netsat sea?
When they had emptied the nets into the two boats they were filled so full that they began to sink.
Perhaps John remembered another day on the Lake when the nets broke with the weight of the fishes, and looking at the figure standing on the shore in the sunrise, he said to Peter, "It is the Lord!
There by the Lake where He had called them from their nets to follow Him they waited for Him.
Illustration: Jesus among the fishermen] When they had done this they found that their nets were filled with fishes, so that they called to James and John to come and help them, for their nets were breaking.
Hampered by these obstructions, for apparently the nets fouled her propellers, the Thetis slowed down and grounded diagonally across the entrance to the canal and about a hundred yards from the pier-heads.
Between the net defence she went, tearing buoys and nets from their anchors and sinkers.
A few fathoms beneath the boat's keel were mines in hundreds, that, in conjunction with nets and other elaborate devices, formed an impregnable barrier to the passage of German U-boats.
For the first time in her life she had seen her idol, her husband, entangled in the nets of a priest without the least power to extricate or help himself, and saved only by the superior strength of this terrible Roman.
Their nets are torn; they are now harmless, and it does not become the Church to inculpate, but to exculpate.
He states that he has cast upon the men of Umma the nets of the deities by whom he and they have sworn, and, in the event of any violation of their oath, he prays that the nets may destroy them and their city.
In the text engraved upon the Stele of the Vultures Eannatum, as we have already seen, seeks to guard the terms of his treaty by placing it under the protection of the nets of Enlil and of other deities.
Sounding lines had been lowered with thermometers and nets and sampling machines.
Capitan Saavedra thought he had put over a fast one on los americanos, who had moved the fish from where he regularly captured them in vast quantities and gathered them in a lagoon where his nets tore.
The tide was out and these two concluded to spend their time in watching the nets hauled in.
Within my nets I have snared the most marvellous swan in the world.
She railed on those who with nets and snares had betrayed the nightingale to his death; for anger and hate beyond measure had gained hold on her heart.
The swaying boughs with rays of gold Wove nets of yellow sun, And cast them where a headstone told-- The weaver's task was done.
Hereafter we must leave the nets unguarded and the lake without our own patrol, only when we are sure it is safe.
Having lain in the barn for a year, the box and its contents were thick with dust and spiders had woven their own gossamer nets everywhere.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "nets" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
