"Hornpout" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... dropped the lines into the lake. Miss Margie was the first to hook a fish. After a hard pull she got him to the top of the water. It was a catfish weighing twelve pounds. The Colonel and Owen were disgusted. A catfish is an exaggerated hornpout, or "bullhead." None but negroes ...
— Down South - or, Yacht Adventure in Florida • Oliver Optic
... came down to my canoe, he was sitting low on the lily pads, winking sleepily now and then, with eight little sparrow's toes curling over the rim of his under lip, like a hornpout's whiskers. ...
— Wilderness Ways • William J Long |
