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For example, there used to be a dairy free battered cod-fish in Morrisons a few weeks ago, but when shopping again recently I found that they had replaced their old stock with new all dairy containing battered fish.
Do you want cheese with that? « My Liberal Democrat Political Ramblings… 2009
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“If you melt all three together, they might make one man fit to mate with that big cod-fish,” said a sailor from
Modeste Mignon 2007
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Ah! there he goes, dragging him along the deck as if he were a cod-fish or a conger.
Mary Anerley Richard Doddridge 2004
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Balonne, huge cod-fish (GRISTES PEELII) were caught this afternoon; indeed, we already felt comparatively at home, although still far from the settled districts, and strangers to all that had been passing in the world during seven months.
Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia 2003
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The halibut they were getting scarce, we run our cod-fish gear,
The Eastern Light 1997
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Portugal, Genoa, &c.; he has even information on the subject of Iceland, and its great cod-fish trade.
A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand
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The bait used is called "rogue:" the best is composed of the roe of the cod-fish, pounded and steeped in salt water for several days; sometimes the roe and flesh of the mackerel is used.
Brittany & Its Byways Fanny Bury Palliser
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Vessels will hereafter pass through this Canal instead of taking the long voyage around the Cape; and it is believed that the _saving_ which will be effected in the transportation of cod-fish and garden-sass by the consequent shortening of the voyage, will be something enormous.
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Davis had indeed explored an immense extent of coast-line, and he had brought back a cargo of cod-fish and five hundred seal skins, but Cathay seemed as far off as ever.
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Portuguese declared that one of their countrymen, Cortereal -- a gentleman of the royal household -- had already discovered the "land of the cod-fish" in 1463.
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