turbots

Sprays of pink flowers adorned the marble pillars, while banners strung between the central chandelier and walls bore the motto porpentines & turbots.

Worldshaker Richard Harland 2009

In The Unquiet Grave, Cyril Connolly wonders, Why do soles and turbots borrow the colours and even the contours of the sea bottom?

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

In The Unquiet Grave, Cyril Connolly wonders, Why do soles and turbots borrow the colours and even the contours of the sea bottom?

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

Sprays of pink flowers adorned the marble pillars, while banners strung between the central chandelier and walls bore the motto porpentines & turbots.

Worldshaker Richard Harland 2009

Her fishmonger (it was fine to hear her talk of “my fishmonger”) would sell her a whiting as respectfully as if she had called for a dozen turbots and lobsters.

The Newcomes 2006

By a coincidence two turbots of singular beauty arrived as presents to his Eminence on the very morning of the feast.

Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon Various

The dinner was served: one of the turbots relieved the soup.

Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon Various

There were turbots and sturgeon, eels and prawns, boar's flesh and venison, pheasants and peacocks, ducks and capons, turtles and flamingoes, pickled tunny-fishes, truffles and mushrooms, besides a variety of other dishes that it is impossible to mention here.

The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic Arthur Gilman

Devonshire coast, who sail over here to take the salmon, mackerel, herrings, turbots, soles, etc. which so abound at Tenby.

Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, August, 1878 Various

The fish-market was most inviting -- quantities of flat white turbots, shining silver mackerel, and fresh crevettes piled high on a marble slab with water running over them.

Chateau and Country Life in France Mary Alsop King Waddington