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  • What are your suggestions for good lures/baits for educated, low-water fish?

    Suggestions for mid summer trout baits & lures 2009

  • Mrs. Bancroft's creation was planted decades before either succulents or native low-water plants would become popular.

    Ruth Bancroft's 'Dry Garden' 2011

  • Yellow Handkerchief had lifted the trap-net at high-water slack, and, taking advantage of the concealment offered by the fog, had boldly been lying by, waiting to lift the net again at low-water slack.

    YELLOW HANDKERCHIEF 2010

  • What we once enjoyed and maybe even defended against less confused peers can sometimes emerge from the time-fog as a shamefully regrettable “phase” that etches an embarrassing low-water mark for all films (or romances) to follow.

    Top 10 Classic Movies That Got it Wrong » Scene-Stealers 2009

  • Christopher Dale Chapman, 27, of Idabel and a companion were caught in a current and swept over a low-water dam about 4 p.m.

    Oklahoma Man Dies Noodling For Catfish 2009

  • Worthless, save for ducks and low-water pasturage.

    CHAPTER XXV 2010

  • We watched our chance, and the next low-water slack, after Big Alec had removed the fish from the line and returned ashore, we went out in the salmon boat.

    The King of the Greeks 2010

  • We made it out of there pretty quickly — the cop had a long way to go to low-water — and turned right on route 50.

    The Eskimo Rides Shotgun Con Chapman 2010

  • The low-water mark for the market came in January 2010, when the median price for a home in the city of Phoenix fell 64% to $92,000 from $253,000 in December 2007, according to the Cromford Report.

    Phoenix's Home-Price Puzzle: How to Rise from Ashes? Jim Carlton 2011

  • I heard as we leaned, drinking beer, against our cars on a low-water bridge that a friend lay crying, in a field for a brother, dead now several years.

    Of a Friend Whose Brother Died Young Con Chapman 2011

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