Baited

Famous quotes containing the word baited:

    While he hears in every spring
    How the birds do chirp and sing:
    Or before the hounds in cry
    See the hare go stealing by:
    Or along the shallow brook,
    Angling with a baited hook,
    See the fishes leap and play
    In a blessed sunny day:
    Nicholas Breton (1542–1626)

    ...in vain is the net baited while the bird is looking on...
    Bible: Hebrew, Proverbs 1:17.

    you who baited your hook with wide-awake dreams,
    and calls and letters and once a luncheon,
    and twice a reading by me for you.
    But I wouldn’t!
    Anne Sexton (1928–1974)