sprats

• The fish last mentioned are about the size of sprats, and are prepared for sale in different ways; the most common is by pounding them entire as they come from the stream in a wooden mortar, and exposing them to dry in the sun, in large lumps like sugar loaves. —  Life and Travels of Mungo Park in Central Africa
• "Admirals roamed the seas like sprats - in point of fact too many" as they wrote in The Gondoliers. —  WHAT REALLY HAPPENED
• Potatoes and sprats are layered alternating the sprats with onions.
• She grew absolutely interested in such infinitesimal facts as the arrival of a barrel of salt sprats, the sprained ankle of Mark Milksop [a genuine surname of the time] of the garrison, the Governor's new crimson damask gown, and the solitary cowslip which his shy little girl offered to Bertram "for the Lady But having nothing to do, by no means implied having nothing to think about. —  The White Rose of Langley A Story of the Olden Time
• They bent themselves to the question whether sprats were young herrings. —  A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I (of II)

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