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  • And by the time we reached Jonesville and he related that experience to the awe-struck neighbors it wuz a thrillin 'and excitin' seen he depictered, and that tiny fishlet had growed, in the fertile sile of his warm imagination, to such a length, that I told him in confidence out to one side, that if I ever hearn him go on so agin about it, and if that fish kep 'a growin' to that alarmin 'extent, I should have to tell its exact length; it wuz jest as long as my middle finger, for I measured it on the boat, foreseein' trouble with him in this direction.

    Samantha at Coney Island and a Thousand Other Islands Marietta Holley 1881

  • If it has been consummated, that’s not what you yearn for either, you poor little fishlet.

    Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

  • If it has been consummated, that’s not what you yearn for either, you poor little fishlet.

    Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

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  • A tiny fish. See peotomy.

    March 29, 2008