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  • Dishes might include venison tartar flamed over juniper twigs, served with lump-fish roe, minced pickled fennel and chanterelles mayonnaise.

    Chefs return to Nature 2010

  • Slick-looking pollock, bloated lump-fish, and occasionally a sombre dog-fish rolls by, giving one a start, as the memory of pictures of battles between divers and sharks of tropical waters comes to mind.

    The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year William Beebe 1919

  • I'll get the lump-fish; but 'tis the last cure you'll try.

    Doctor Luke of the Labrador Norman Duncan 1893

  • And soon he had for her four green, prickly-skinned, jelly-like, big-bellied lump-fish, which were not appetizing to look upon, though I've heard tell that starving folk, being driven to it, have eaten them.

    Doctor Luke of the Labrador Norman Duncan 1893

  • "'Tis the eyes o 'four lump-fish," said my sister.

    Doctor Luke of the Labrador Norman Duncan 1893

  • The large-grained spawn of fishes, such as the lump-fish, salmon, or sturgeon, might be readily enough mistaken, in even the recent state, for the detached spherical-seed vessels of fruit, such as the bramble-berry, the stone-bramble, or the rasp.

    The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed Hugh Miller 1829

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