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On entering into office, the deemster took an oath, which is sworn by all deemsters to this day, declaring by the wonderful works which God hath miraculously wrought in six days and seven nights, that he would execute the laws of the island justly "betwixt party and party, as indifferently as the herring's backbone doth lie in the midst of the fish."
The Little Manx Nation - 1891 Hall Caine 1892
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At midday they all sat down to drink tea, and went on drinking it for a long time, till they were all perspiring; they looked positively swollen from the tea-drinking, and after it began sipping the broth from the herring's head, all helping themselves out of one bowl.
The Witch and other stories Anton Pavlovich Chekhov 1882
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As it was a holiday, they bought a herring at the tavern and made a soup of the herring's head.
The Witch and other stories Anton Pavlovich Chekhov 1882
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On the sooty ceiling glittered herrings 'souls, as a certain portion of the herring's entrails is called, and which Peter Cripple, following the popular belief, had flung up to the ceiling, convinced that so long as they hung there he should be freed from the ague.
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But the rotten wood and the herring's head declared most solemnly, by all they held sacred, that the glow-worm only gave light at certain times, and must not be allowed to compete with themselves.
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The first was a herring's head, which could emit light in the darkness.
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But they were surprised that herring embryos died at the low concentrations of those chemicals that they found in the herring's flesh the next year.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Carl Safina 2012
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Bart thinks new herring's current popularity is mostly about marketing.
Reveries: Cool News of the Day - marketing people, insights, innovation, ideas 2010
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Even though our nautical party scene is quieting down, the fun is not over yet, not with herring's happy arrival.
NY Daily News 2010
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The cameras were rolling when the crab season officially began aboard the Northwestern with a tradition -- biting off a herring's head.
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