fish

• The chip shop also sold wet fish, to be ordered the day before as the fish was delivered daily from the Piece Hall, then a wholesale fish-market.
• Indeed, the ship could not be released until we had almost cut the net to pieces; for which our Government had to pay some hundreds of pounds sterling to the proprietors of the fish-preserve Vast quantities of mackerel and other fish are also caught, dried, and exported to the various adjacent Roman Catholic countries; but, I believe, excepting perhaps shellfish--prawns, lobsters, crabs, etc.--there is little or no fresh fish worth eating Maltese society is very proud and exclusive, and dreadfully reserved and jealous of the English community; indeed, little or no sympathy exists between them, which is much to be regretted. —  Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta
• There's a fish which is called the fighting-fish, that is regularly trained by the fishermen, and the combats are so famous that when one is scheduled to come off a big crowd gathers Where?" —  The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries
• Sunday, August 4, the next day after entering, Biscayans and French and Portuguese and English send their new Governor tribute in provisions,--fish from the English, marmalade and wines and spices from the foreigners. —  Canada: the Empire of the North Being the Romantic Story of the New Dominion's Growth from Colony to Kingdom
• The deer, the pine tree, and the fish are the emblems representing those interests The seal which my father had engraved in 1783 was without the motto. —  Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2

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