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  • Alewives in northern lakes and threadfin shad in southern lakes areboth short, deep-bodied baitfish — and big-time bass food — that a Shad Rapimitates perfectly.

    John Merwin Picks the 50 Best Lures of All Time 2006

  • At the other side of this road were three large detached deep-bodied villas with peaky eaves and small wooden balconies, each standing in its own little square of grass and of flowers.

    Beyond the City Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1982

  • It was a great, deep-bodied flood, rather than an avalanche, advancing without flurry, solidly, with presage of power.

    Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan Bennet Burleigh

  • As it was, I ought to have preserved the skin and brought it home as a specimen, so long and gaunt was it, so different from our deep-bodied

    Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler William Senior

  • Lyra caught two pacu, good-sized, deep-bodied fish.

    VIII. The River of Doubt 1914

  • But the piranha is a short, deep-bodied fish, with a blunt face and a heavily undershot or projecting lower jaw which gapes widely.

    II. Up the Paraguay 1914

  • At the other side of this road were three large detached deep-bodied villas with peaky eaves and small wooden balconies, each standing in its own little square of grass and of flowers.

    Beyond the City Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

  • At the other side of this road were three large detached deep-bodied villas with peaky eaves and small wooden balconies, each standing in its own little square of grass and of flowers.

    Beyond the City 1893

  • Lyra caught two pacu, good-sized, deep-bodied fish.

    Through the Brazilian Wilderness Theodore Roosevelt 1888

  • But the piranha is a short, deep-bodied fish, with a blunt face and a heavily undershot or projecting lower jaw which gapes widely.

    Through the Brazilian Wilderness Theodore Roosevelt 1888

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