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Get a campsite on Waltonian, Flirtation or Temple Knoll Island, part of the Rogers Rock Campground, six miles north of Hague.

From New York Times • Sep. 4, 2014

Something calls his attention to Isaac Walton, and he writes a Waltonian kind of sketch about a fisherman.

From Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived by Long, William Joseph

Columba is described as out a-fishing one day with a parcel of his disciples, who are characterised as "strenui piscatores," a term which would be highly applicable to many a Waltonian of the present day.

From The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author by Burton, John Hill

Of course, my necessary compliance with the prejudices of the guardian of the fish prevented the exercise of my Waltonian propensities.

From A Peep into Toorkisthhan by Burslem, Rollo Gillespie

Fresh-water fish are only to be obtained in Mondoldo by the artificial process above mentioned; as the streams and brooks abound not in trout or other Waltonian prey.

From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I by Melville, Herman