codlings

• “Kent was famous for cherries and for the two varieties of apples known as Kentish codlings and the Flower of Kent.”

  Simon & Schuster: Secrets of the Tudor Court

• “We took a small boat full of fish resembling codlings or small cod, called "lieu," and were rowed by the fishermen through a sea of granite boulders to the opposite side of the Trégastel estuary, to see the "pierre pendue," or rocking-stone (Breton, _rouler_), the largest in Brittany.”

  Brittany & Its Byways

• “Codle forty fair codlings green and tender, then peel and core them, and beat them in a mortar, strain them with a quart of cream, and mix them well together in a dish with fine sugar, sack, musk, and rose-water.”

  The accomplisht cook or, The art & mystery of cookery

• “All through the winter they had been kept at grown-up work, cutting peat and carrying wood; why should they be left now to fool about with the inshore fishing, and bring home nothing better than flounders and coal-fish and silly codlings?”

  The Great Hunger

• “Lovely maidens sit in close proximity to the roots of the lovely trees singing the most lovely songs while they play with all kinds of lovely objects as for example golden ingots, silvery fishes, crans of herrings, drafts of eels, codlings, creels of fingerlings, purple seagems and playful insects.”

  Ulysses

• “Mr. Weber, on the authority of Ford himself, that "hot codlings" are”

  Famous Reviews

• “Further, the codlings having begun to run in unusual numbers, as is common upon this coast in late autumn, Morris that very morning had taken the boat out to fish for them, an amusement which he proposed to resume on the morrow in the hope of better sport.”

  Stella Fregelius

• “Only a little for whiting and codlings," was the reply.”

  Fitz the Filibuster

• “And, even in the pleasantest company, we cannot see anything very desirable in sitting in a boat, all the floor of which is covered by unhappy whitings and codlings flapping about in their last agony.”

  The Recreations of a Country Parson

• “Eh? Come, aren't you sorry you kept her sitting all this time among the nettles when she might have been walking to Colman's Weir, and gathering such fine codlings and cream as Mrs. Martindale has there, and all because you would not say a hymn that you knew quite well?”

  Heartsease, Or, the Brother's Wife

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