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  • There'd be river-trout next, or fresh salmon (flick-flick) lightly sprinkled with herbs and sauces.

    Cider With Rosie Lee, Laurie 1959

  • _ -- Tell us why they are so different from the river-trout, or why there should be two species or varieties in the same water.

    The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 329, August 30, 1828 Various

  • Fast day – but an excellent meal of river-trout, tomato salad, balls of rice and herbs rolled in vine leaves (japrak), and green paprikas stuffed with rice and frightfully hot.

    High Albania Mary Edith 1909

  • Mayaro shrugged his contempt of the St. Regis hunter; the Oneida youth sat industriously braiding his first trophy; the others had rekindled the embers of the dead man's fire and were now parching his raw corn and dividing the baked river-trout into six portions.

    The Hidden Children 1899

  • For the silvery river-trout lying there carried a forked willow-twig between gill and gill-cover.

    The Hidden Children 1899

  • Their presence in the water may perhaps be accounted for thus: they may have come into the loch from the river, by way of the tiny feeder; but the river-trout are both scarce and small.

    Angling Sketches Andrew Lang 1878

  • The salmon himself, for instance, is by descent a trout, and in the parr stage he is even now almost indistinguishable from many kinds of river-trout that never migrate seaward at all.

    Science in Arcady Grant Allen 1873

  • "Do you know," said the little friar, as they wound along the banks of the stream, "the reason why lake-trout is better than river-trout, and shyer withal?"

    Maid Marian Thomas Love Peacock 1825

  • "Do you know," said the little friar, as they wound along the banks of the stream, "the reason why lake-trout is better than river-trout, and shyer withal?"

    Maid Marian 1822

  • 'It will be some sea brute,' he observed; but he became satisfied that it was a fine river-trout, and such as, he afterwards admitted, had not been killed in Tweed for twenty years; and when I moved down the water, he went, as Sir Walter afterwards observed, and gave it a kick on the head, exclaiming, 'To be ta'en by the like o' him frae Lunnon! '"

    The Journal of Sir Walter Scott From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford Walter Scott 1801

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