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Examples
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A landlocked state with no commercial fishery that I've ever heard of ... why would they be impressed with such a 'fish-story'?
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"That's exactly like you!" cried her brother Charlie; "now, I say give us some exciting adventures by sea or by land; a real fish-story, or escape from a lion or tiger, or a tale of a bear, or something of that sort."
Holidays at the Grange or A Week's Delight Games and Stories for Parlor and Fireside Emily Mayer Higgins
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But my hat is off to him, after all, for he had ready for us, and swears to this day to its truth, the best fish-story of the trip.
Tenting To-night A Chronicle of Sport and Adventure in Glacier Park and the Cascade Mountains Mary Roberts Rinehart 1917
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Plutarch, in THE LIVES OF THE NOBLE GRECIANS AND ROMANS, tells a capital fish-story of the manner in which the Egyptian Cleopatra fooled that far-famed Roman wight, Marc Antony, when they were angling together on the Nile.
Fisherman's Luck and Some Other Uncertain Things Henry Van Dyke 1892
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This he would have me believe was the foundation of this fish-story.
Cape Cod 1865
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All that is told of the sea has a fabulous sound to an inhabitant of the land, and all its products have a certain fabulous quality, as if they belonged to another planet, from sea-weed to a sailor's yarn, or a fish-story.
Cape Cod 1865
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I should with reluctance stain these pages with a fiction; and yet the public would have just reason to resent a fish-story without any fish in it.
The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner Charles Dudley Warner 1864
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At length in a small brook flowing into the Middle River we found the trout more sociable; and it is lucky that we did so, for I should with reluctance stain these pages with a fiction; and yet the public would have just reason to resent a fish-story without any fish in it.
Baddeck, and That Sort of Thing Charles Dudley Warner 1864
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The best English fish-story pure and simple, that I know, is "Crocker's
Fisherman's Luck and Some Other Uncertain Things Henry Van Dyke 1892
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