carp-like

Traditionally, the best masquf was made from barbel, a carp-like fish that Iraqis have been eating since the ancient Mesopotamian days.

Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011

The kid stopped up short as if he'd run into an invisible wall, eyes and mouth opened wide in a carp-like expression of shock.

Hobo Junction sean m. poole 2012

Traditionally, the best masquf was made from barbel, a carp-like fish that Iraqis have been eating since the ancient Mesopotamian days.

Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011

In spite of my better instincts, then, I attributed his weirder comments to grief, and made light of the fact that, midway through our conversation, he lunged at me with such force I ended up lying prone on a sofa, his soft bulk flapping, carp-like, on top of me.

Blow by Blow: The Story of Isabella Blow by Detmar Blow Rachel Cooke 2010

The fish bones are still under study at this moment, but cyprinids (carp-like species) seem to be the best represented.

Interactive Dig Sagalassos 2003 - Subsistence Studies Report 1 2003

When his facial muscles were relaxed, his mouth had a peculiar carp-like appearance which gave him a look of droll humor.

The Case of the Stuttering Bishop Gardner, Erle Stanley, 1889-1970 1936

Rodd nodded assent, and soon after Joe and a couple of his mates had been busy with their knives on the sandy river bank, the unwonted sound made by a frying-pan arose from the fire, with the result that there was no doubt about the carp-like fish being good, and the _al fresco_ dinner proving a success.

The Ocean Cat's Paw The Story of a Strange Cruise George Manville Fenn 1870

Mademoiselle de Verneuil then understood the carp-like movements she had seen the miser making.

The Chouans Honor�� de Balzac 1824

'I had worked quite a bit on miniature cyprinids (carp-like fishes such as P. progenetica and D. dracula) before and if one had asked me if there was a miniature Pangio out there, I would have said no.'

PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories PhysOrg Team 2010

'I had worked quite a bit on miniature cyprinids (carp-like fishes such as P. progenetica and D. dracula) before and if one had asked me if there was a miniature Pangio out there, I would have said no.'

PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010