I caught congers before you were short-coated, my laddie, but I'm not going catching them now.
But Eudoxus, in the sixth book of his Circuit of the Earth, says that there are numbers of congerscaught off Sicyon, each large enough to be a load for a man; and some of them even big enough to be a load for a cart.
They were all on their feet together, twisting about like greatcongers on the quay, drinking a little and smoking a great deal, thumping the table, and all talking at once.
Will there be more pleasure, think you, in seeing the congers eat the gladiator, or in eating the congers afterward?
Those biggest congers will lug him manfully, Cethegus; we will go see the sport, anon.
So Antigonus the king, surprising Antagoras the poet in the habit of a cook, broiling congers in his tent, said to him: Dost thou think that Homer was dressing congers when he writ Agamemnon's famous exploits?
And he as smartly replied: Do you think that Agamemnon did so many famous exploits when he was inquiring who dressed congers in the camp?
When the congersare lifted on board the scene is usually an exciting one, for they are very powerful and active, and go twisting and writhing about in the most extraordinary manner, slapping vigorously on all sides with their long tails.
Congers feed, as a rule, upon mollusks, which we wrongly call shell-fish, devouring them shells and all.
Congers generally live in rather shallow water off a rocky coast, where there are plenty of nooks and crevices in which they can hide during the daytime.
Congers don't care about light when they're feeding.
Congers have a way of spinning themselves round like that.
I mean Will, father; he knows of a place where the congers are plentiful, and Josh says he'll take the greatest care of us.
I never see one, but I've heerd say so; but congers will bite and no mistake.
That there wire as is run round the line is to keep the congers from biting it in two.
The methods of society are too orthodox for such an aberration, and as his friends doubtless pay a handsome fee to keep him here, old Congers labels him mad and locks the door on him.
Old Congers is a very good chap, and all that, but he’s not what I should call extra sharp.
So off I tooled, and found old Congers just thinking of turning in.
Some of the congers could wriggle still, and they made her scream when they did it; but the lobsters were her chief delight, being all alive and kicking.
Why, Ladle, all the holes among the rocks must swarm with lobsters, and the congers must be as big as serpents.
The congers wouldn't live in a place where seals were.
But you know there may be whirlpools and holes and black caverns and sharp rocks, and I dare say there are regular monsters of congers down in the deep places that have never been disturbed.
No, of course that's nonsense; but the congers may be very big and fierce, and isn't this the sort of place they would run up?
After living a day or two on wholesome food, we wondered how our stomachs could receive and digest the rank nauseous congers fried in train-oil, and could hardly believe we had lived on nothing else for a month past.
I sat and held it in my hand a long time, thinking how it came from Congers and our home, and what a happy home it was.
He again that night asked me to stay with him a couple of months in Congers before I go home to Missanabie, and also to pay him a visit real often, and also that he would never go out doing any travelling without me.
I sat and held it in my hand a long time thinking how it came from Congers and our home, and what a happy home it was, and what a dear, dear girl presided.
And until it was time to go to sleep Hubbard continued to talk of the good dinners he had eaten when a child and of those his wife had recently prepared at his Congers home.
Come out to Congers to-night without fail, and we'll talk it over.
I hope we shall be able to find another house in Congers with a fireplace such as our old one had," he said, turning to me as if he knew I had been reading his thoughts.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "congers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
