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As you know, I've been jilted by Amazon, too...and by Barnesandnoble.com, which once suggested something called "The Amazing Mackarel Pudding Plan"...and by The Container Store, which thought that "Sea Animal Grippers" were perfect for me.
The Breakup 2007
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Mackarel _often_ exceed four, and lobsters _sometimes_ thirty-five pounds weight.
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Mackarel are some seasons extremely plentiful, small, but peculiarly sweet.
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"King John gave to the Corporation a rich cup and cover," says Mackarel, "weighing seventy-three ounces, which is preserved to this day and upon all public occasions and entertainments used with some uncommon ceremonies at drinking the health of the King or Queen, and whoever goes to visit the Mayor must drink out of this cup, which contains a full pint."
Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance Julia de Wolf Gibbs Addison
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The _Mackarel_ fishery usually commences towards the month of July, along the coast of Picardy; because, being a sort of fish of passage, it gets into the channel in the month of April.
A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume One Thomas Frognall Dibdin 1811
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Mint with Pease, Fennel with Mackarel, and such like, cannot be forgot.
The Country Housewife and Lady's Director in the Management of a House, and the Delights and Profits of a Farm Richard Bradley 1710
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Spanish Mackarel are, in Colour and Shape, like the common Mackarel, only much thicker.
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The same sort of Fish come before the Mackarel in England.
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The Taylor is a Fish about the Bigness of a Trout, but of a bluish and green Colour, with a forked Tail, as a Mackarel has.
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Spanish Mackarel swam through the shoals looking for a snack, emenating an aura of power and purpose as they sleekly swam along.
Kottu 2010
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