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  • It was called “Peter, Pamela and Percy Pure Pilchards Pet Food,” and ten cents from every can sold was donated to SANCCOB to help defray the cost of the mammoth rescue effort.

    The Great Penguin Rescue Dyan DeNapoli 2010

  • She decides on Hot Chilli Pilchards fish in a can.

    A Typical "Busy" Day...Combination of Social Time and Work Megan aka Mmapula Reamogetse 2008

  • She decides on Hot Chilli Pilchards fish in a can.

    Archive 2008-08-01 Megan aka Mmapula Reamogetse 2008

  • Content: Pilchards in tomato (pilchards, tomato paste, liquid and salt)

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2002

  • Pilchards now for the most part keep further west.

    The Cornwall Coast

  • Pilchards are still caught here, with the old-fashioned seine-nets; but their numbers have much decreased.

    The Cornwall Coast

  • The entrance-door of the Three Pilchards being constructed in two flaps, Mr Latter habitually closed the lower one and eased the upper part of his facade upon it while he surveyed the world.

    Nicky-Nan, Reservist Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

  • On his way to ask news of the group of fishermen at the Quay-head he hurried -- and almost without observing him -- past Nicky-Nan; who likewise had hobbled forth to discover the meaning of the uproar, and, having discovered it, had retired to seat himself on the bollard outside the "Three Pilchards" and nurse his leg.

    Nicky-Nan, Reservist Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

  • A voice hailed him from the doorway of the Three Pilchards.

    Nicky-Nan, Reservist Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

  • Mennear, of the "Three Pilchards" Inn (commonly known as the "Kettle of Fish"), who applied for a separation, alleging that her husband had kissed her by mistake for another woman.

    The Mayor of Troy Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

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