But all the fishes on my uncle's property were under the special care of that Proteus Bolt; and Bolt was not a man likely to suffer the carps to earn their bread without contributing their full share to the wants of the community.
She went away again, and the King came back towards us and near the carps without saying a word.
He addressed himself afterwards on the subject of these carps to domestics, who did not ordinarily join in the conversation.
Gesner says, a Carp has been known to live in the Palatine above a hundred years But most conclude, that, contrary to the Pike or Luce, all Carps are the better for age and bigness.
And this reason of Sir Francis Bacon has made me crave pardon of one that I laughed at for affirming that he knew Carps come to a certain place, in a pond, to be fed at the ringing of a bell or the beating of a drum.
The physicians make the galls and stones in the heads of Carps to be very medicinable.
And note, that clods of grass thrown into any pond feed any Carps in summer; and that garden-earth and parsley thrown into a pond recovers and refreshes the sick fish.
Note, that Carps and Tench thrive and breed best when no other fish is put with them into the same pond; for all other fish devour their spawn, or at least the greatest part of it.
Those Sans Souci carps may live to be a thousand years old and have nothing to tell but that one day is like another; and the history of friend Goody Twoshoes has not much more variety than theirs.
Yes, and likewise carps live to an immense old age.
You may keep two Brace of large Carps well enough in a two-dozen Hamper, plung'd into any part of a River where there is a clear Stream, or Trench that is fed by a Spring, and they will become of an extraordinary sweet Taste.
When your Fish are thus purify'd, dress your Carpsafter the following manner: To Stew Carps or Tench.
But we need the fictitious future for a present; when we hover ever so still above our slime, we yet are continually flapping, like carps lying still, with poetic fins and wings.
The carps were an item, to be sure, but he was filled with terror at the thought that his mother might put her curse upon him.
On another occasion, he said: "To-day mother gave an order to catch some carps in the pond.
And then it came to: "Would you mind, my dear friend, ordering some German carps caught in Dubrovino?
The carps are not so very good in the lower part of the river; but the higher one goes the finer they are, on account of the plenty of sand in those parts.
A great number of carps are carried into the lakes that are filled by the overflowing of the river, and in those lakes they are found {275} of all sizes, in great abundance, and of a better relish than those of the river.
But all the fishes on my uncle's property were under the special care of that Proteus Bolt--and Bolt was not a man likely to suffer the carps to earn their bread without contributing their full share to the wants of the community.
We fetched 244 Carps in three Dung Carts from a stew of Parson Citizen at Street; being brought thither last night out of the above pond.
But they deviate from the Carps and Pikes by their asymmetrical, naked or mailed body, the large transverse mouth, the eyes staring upwards, and the arrested branchial opercula.
The carps were cutting capers above the surface of the canal to seize the flies that buzzed like a kettle; while the swallows, with their long bodies and great wings, disputed the prey with them.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "carps" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
