What is "fishers"

Usage examples of "fishers".

So it came about that when Mr Lammas had passed his trials and won his licence to preach, a special sederunt of the Free Fishers took place, and he was duly appointed their chaplain, with whatever rights, perquisites and privileges might inhere in that dignity.

Mr Lammas, cumbered with such cares and about to set out on a difficult journey, had been in no mood for the Free Fishers, and had almost let the occasion slip.

Its name was the Free Fishers of Forth, but its name was not often spoken.

Free Fishers had been the supreme authority of his world, far more potent than the King in London.

From the side of the Free Fishers, however, he knew that he need fear nothing, for they were silent as the tomb.

As you say, the oath is between us, and the Free Fishers sup always under the rose.

But I am also a young man, and I am privileged to be a member of that brotherhood of the Free Fishers to which those three others belong.

Waldo up broad steps, between two statues of perched Fishers and through cast-iron doors a full fifteen feet in height and half that in width.

I knew the Fishers to be one of the two clans that lived in and around Aurium.

Like the Fishers, they took their name from that of a bird that frequented the tri-river valley.

Common wisdom had it that river-ravens were rats with wings and that Fishers regularly placed their eggs in river-raven nests to be tended.

Neal forced on the Fishers and Riverens worked well for a generation or two.

Knotts married back into the Fishers and Riverens, then the line died out when no more male heirs appeared.

He set out to poison one of the Fishers, but ended up a felos-de-se, as I believe you put it in the Sylvanii.

It seems, from what I heard bandied about among those who are not Fishers or Riverens, the battling between the two clans is cyclical.