white-bait

Greenwich, near London, scene of the famous Ministerial white-bait dinners of the days of Pitt; to make a jest on an exciting idea suggested by some medical man that some of the features of a

Walking-Stick Papers Robert Cortes Holliday

A small sort is found in the river very much resembling white-bait in taste.

Recollections of Manilla and the Philippines During 1848, 1849 and 1850 Robert MacMicking

Life, however, is especially agreeable in swan-hopping season, when white-bait abounds at

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 13, 1841 Various

Scores of young girls used to romp about, ducking each other under and climbing on each other's backs for support, and children of three or four used to swim about like white-bait, in and out, among us all.

The Romance of Isabel, Lady Burton William Henry Burton Wilkins 1897

With lobsters and white-bait, and other swate-meats,

Mr. Barney Maguire's Account of the Coronation by Richard Harris Barham Edmund Clarence Stedman 1895

Some say it means fish that are baked in the oven because they are too small to fry in pans; but this does not seem a sensible explanation to anyone who has seen white-bait cooked.

Home Life in Germany Alfred Sidgwick 1894

"I am quite satisfied to begin with white-bait," said he.

Phyllis of Philistia Frank Frankfort Moore 1893

From one of the pools we took our bait -- small fish the size of white-bait, with big, staring eyes, and bodies of a transparent pink with silvery scales.

The Call Of The South 1908 Louis Becke 1884

Scores of young girls used to romp about, ducking each other under and climbing on each other's backs for support, and children of three or four used to swim about like white-bait, in and out, among us all.

The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton Volume II W. H. Wilkins 1882

A soup, a plate of white-bait be-lemoned and red-peppered with exactness, a huge joint of roast beef, from which we sliced at will, flanked by various bottles of old dry Sherry and crusty Port -- such Port!

The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 1 Ambrose Bierce 1878