Saying this, he hung a codfish to the hook of his steelyards, and finding seven pounds marked, said thirty cents would cover the cost, that being a cent and a half more off.
One solitary poet was caught and punished for singing a song to her sands; but of her codfish no historian has written, though divers malicious writers have declared them the medium upon which one of our aristocracies is founded.
As the boxed codfish is always so salty, it is necessary, after picking it carefully apart and removing the bones, to let it soak in cold water for half an hour, then drain.
Dish up the codfish with pieces of pork around it and serve with boiled potatoes and beets.
Cut the codfish into strips, soak in lukewarm water and then cook in water until tender, but do not allow the water to come to the boiling point except for a very short time as prolonged boiling may make it tough.
Oliver Wendell Holmes says that the Yankee schoolmarm, the cider and the salt codfish of the Eastern states are responsible for what he calls a nasal accent.
I got out of the scrape by saying a codfish was dumb enough but it wasn't an animal, but Joe didn't look satisfied, and I wasn't satisfied myself.
Of course codfish are not ivory, and it is rough service, but Aubert and some of the others think that there may be a way to India.
Hear him talk as though he didn't know what a codfish was .
Flakes, hundreds of feet long, were built on the sunny slopes of the hillsides around the harbor, and during the summer months these would be covered with hundreds of thousands of split salted codfish caught on the Banks from Le Have to Grand.
And some joker would raise a laugh by picking up a big codfish in his arms and asking it the whereabouts of the main body of its family.
Codfish cured in a particular manner, so as to be of a superior quality.
A platform of hurdles, or small sticks made fast or interwoven, supported by stanchions, for drying codfish and other things.
The pose of these classical codfish or bullheads is sublime.
I do not know who designed it, but am told that it was modeled by a young man who attended the codfish autopsy at the market daytimes and gave his nights to art.
That robs the old canyons of their solemn isolation and peoples each gulch with the odor of codfish balls and civilization.
Take three pieces of codfish two inches square; split them in two, and soak them in water over night.
That may all be true, but I'm damned if I eat codfish salad.
Just because he can't stand codfish salad he goes out to a cafe!
Will you do me the favour of translating why you won't eat codfish salad, you skinny little insurrecto?
Don't you know that the Codfish is safe in jail, and has been there for a long time?
The girls never forgot how, with the aid of the boys, they had captured the Codfish and turned him over to the police.
But if you two want to stand there all day talking about the Codfish and revenge, you can, but I'm going to find some way out of this place.
On the 6th of September we called upon Captain Benjamin Coombs, and visited his flakes, where he had one thousand quintals of codfish drying for the market.
Moreover, in all these higher cases alike, the young are fed with milk by the mother, and so spared the trouble of providing for themselves in their early days, like the young codfish or the baby tadpole.
On the other hand, the nutritive material of the codfish would consist almost entirely of protein, while the pork contains very little.
He had baited his pots with codfish heads, then dropped them one by one along the reef.
Then, of a sudden, she caught her breath and set her teeth hard as she tugged at the stout codfish line.
A seventh had been torn in pieces by a fifteen pound codfish that had blundered into it.
Creamed Codfish Pour boiling water over a package of prepared codfish in the colander and drain it.
Squeeze the water from the codfish and mix with the potato.
Her rule said: Take a box of prepared codfish and put it in a colander and pour a quart of boiling water through it, stirring it as you do so.
I smelt cabbage cooking all the morning up in my room," Adrianna said faintly, "and here's codfish and potatoes for dinner.
When the garlic begins to brown put in the codfish and brown it on both sides, stirring it often, so that it doesn't burn.
Cut thecodfish as above, then put it as it is in saucepan with some olive oil.
I can see the nets spread out to dry alongshore, and smell tar and codfish as plain as if it were here right under my nose.
Cured Fish--Shredded codfish and smoked halibut, sprats, boneless herring are portable and keep well.
The Codfish made as though to spring upon Billie, revolver and all, but Billie kept her head.
The Codfish shot a glance at Chet that made the girls shiver, but he went ahead, nevertheless.
We caught one one time on a family fishing trip," said one of the girls, taking it for granted that this particular codfish was of the swimming variety, "and we had fried codfish steaks for a week afterward.
The Codfish glared at her wildly, hesitated just a minute, but that hesitation cost him his chance.
For Chet, seeing that the Codfish was struggling to get his imprisoned hands down to a suspicious bulge over his right hip, sprang forward and drew the hidden revolver from its holster.
Toward morning she fell asleep, only to dream of picnics where one did nothing but catch codfish and eat them, of a strange man with a stooping figure, running across a lawn bathed in moonlight.
But when the first excitement was over, the boys had gone home, and everything was quiet again, they could not help feeling sorry that Chet had not kept the Codfish when he had him.
Codfish a push that sent him staggering up the road in front of them.
You cannot take an Englishman's ship from under him--homeward bound and close to port--and drag him to sea again on a diet of salt codfish without impinging on his sanity.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "codfish" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
