To bake a Carp minced with an Eel in the French Fashion, called Peti Petes.
Dissolve three or four anchoves, with a little grated bread and nutmeg, and give it a warm in some of the broth the carp was boiled in, beat it up thick with some butter, and a clove of garlick, or pour it on the carp.
Or you may make sauce for it only with butter beat up thick, with slices of lemon, some of the carp liquor, and an anchove or two, and garnish the dish with beatten ginger.
To bake a Carp according to these Forms to be eaten hot.
The Carp haunt the deep parts of gently running streams, and those caught in rivers are the best; those that are very numerous in ponds are lean and soft in the flesh, and rather insipid.
It is a very difficult matter to catch Carp with the bait, as they are most cunning fish to detect at once the deception, and swim away on the least sight of the rod or the shadow of the fisherman.
Marya Dmitrievna, "do come here, and look what a fine carp I have caught.
In the pond behind the garden there were plenty of carpand groundlings.
Why, that would mean draining it, and then what would become of my carp and tench?
Lord Winterfield's taste in stewed carp had been improved by half a century's assiduous cultivation.
Now the widow Price understood the stewing of carp better than any woman in England, so his Lordship secured to himself the benefit of her talent by making her Lady Winterfield.
The flat fish are all peculiarly tenacious of life, so are all those of firm muscles generally: the vitality of the carp and of the minnow also is notorious; and so it is as to many other kinds.
There are some very large carp and perch there, and pike too, for the matter of that, but they are out of season.
In opposition to this probability it may be said that Oppian and Pliny reckon the cyprini among the sea-fish, to which kind our carp do not belong.
It is certain that the Nile contains carp still; for Norden saw them caught at the waterfall near Essuane, which is the ancient Syene.
But though all this may be true, it does not prove that our carp must occur in the writings of the ancients.
This is the more probable in regard to carp, as Professor Foster says that carp are sometimes caught in the harbour at Dantzic[120].
This colony must have been very numerous in the year 1535, for at that period carp were sent from Königsberg to Wilda, where the archduke Albert then resided.
That our carp were first found in the southern parts of Europe, and conveyed thence to other countries, is undoubtedly certain.
Some species of ground nuts when roasted over the fire make a very attractive bait for some members of the carp family, amongst which is the "Roheta," or sacred carp of India.
There was also a pro-German and anti-democratic party, led by Carp and Marghiloman and supported by the landlords, which harped upon Rumania's grievances against Russia and placed Bessarabia in the scales against Transylvania.
This was attached to a long pole, and woe betide the unfortunate carp on whose back it descended.
In the reeds adjoining a carp pool I once found a murderous instrument which was used by a gang of sawyers at work in the adjacent wood, for destroying the basking carp.
When the big carp come to the side to spawn, their bodies are half out of the water, and they may be approached and shovelled out with a spade.
When they have said their say, however, their neighbors begin to carp at them, respectable people to pass by on the other side, and the newspapers to distort what they have said and then abuse them for what they never uttered.
With the exception of Carp and his little group all were more or less ready at the very first to fling themselves upon us.
The King possessed in Carp a man of quite unusual, even reckless, activity and energy, and from the first moment he placed himself and his activities at the King's disposal.
Colonel Craig met them with a tiny goldcarp for each girl as a souvenir of the day and on their bill of fare the koi was in evidence, although not alive as he should properly have been in Japanese estimation.
Didn't I hear some one say that the carp is the emblem of good luck as well as of strength and courage?
The carp is the symbol of courage and bravery which are the two things Japanese boys are taught to acquire.
Last year I went to a native house on the fifth of May when I saw a lot of carp swimming about in a tub.
The warmth of his body melted a hole in the ice, at which two carp came up to breathe.
The Japanese choose the carp because they say it has the power of ascending streams swiftly against the current and of leaping over waterfalls.
If a boy has been born in the house during the year the carp is made bigger still.
There was an old saying that the “carp was food fit for an abbot, the barbel for a king.
Bream, both of the silver and the carp kinds, are plentiful, running up to 4lb.
The ordinary pond carp is no longer known near Woodhall, but they survive in a pond, where the writer has caught them, at Wispington.
The carp is to the Japanese mind the emblem of courage and perseverance, for he swims up the strongest current, leaping the waterfalls that oppose his progress.
The food offered is mochi wrapped in oak leaves, because the oak is among trees what the carp is among fishes, the emblem of strength and endurance.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "carp" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: carp; cavil; fish; get; gripe; quibble
