It would be as impossible for me to do as you do, as for a fish to walk upright on dry land.
Well, she's been queen so long she's blasée and difficult, and likes to play with her fish before she lands him.
True daughter of Eve as she was, she had probably seen many a shy fish before, swimming around her golden net as artlessly as I was doing.
To pickle in vinegar or French dressing, as meat or fishis seasoned.
If desired, the bones may be removed from poultry or fish before cooking, and sometimes it is advantageous to do so.
Scallop shells in which fish or oysters are sometimes served.
A pickle used for seasoning meat or fish before cooking.
Long, thin pieces of meat orfish generally rolled and tied.
If he built himself a fish-pond, his fish were taken and he had no redress.
The decorative border below the foot represents the spouting vase with its two streams of water and two fish swimming against the stream.
Whilst at Fish Street Hill he took over the stock of John Ward, of which he issued a catalogue.
Though the exterior of the cottage, with its boat and fish sheds, looked somewhat rough, it had altogether a substantial and not uncomfortable appearance.
I see that there is a covey of flying fish already finished.
There was water and wood in abundance, and fish and birds could be caught.
The child has been well taught by the good fish wife," observed Miss Mary aside to her sister.
I in parliament," he exclaimed, "I should indeed feel like a fish out of water.
As some baskets of shells and cement for sticking them on were in the grotto, Harry, with May's assistance, tried his skill and produced a very creditable flying fish in addition to the covey she had commenced.
The dame is probably in a hurry to sell her fishand to go on her way," observed Miss Pemberton.
Adam and Jacob, carrying up a few fish and some bread, returned to the hut.
She generally called at Texford, though, as Sir Reginald Castleton lived much alone, she was not always sure of selling her fish there, and had often to go a considerable distance out of her way for nothing.
As he spoke he looked into the dame's basket, turning the fish with the handle of his whip.
The shoals of the mackerel glittered in the dark nights, and indicated where they were swimming; the gurnards snarled, and the crabs gave forth pitiful yells when they were chased, for fish are not so mute as people say.
The fish had been caught, taken to the market and sold to the cook, who took him into the kitchen and cut him open with a large knife.
She laid her hands together across her bosom, and then she darted forward as a fish shoots through the water, between the supple arms and fingers of the ugly polypi, which were stretched out on each side of her.
The farmer was very hungry, and ate his porridge with a good appetite, but Little Claus could not help thinking of the nice roast meat, fish and pies, which he knew were in the oven.
There was no one at home but an old Lapland woman, who was cooking fish by the light of a train-oil lamp.
There is plenty in the kitchen--dead game and poultry, hams and sausages; and fat fish swim in the ponds without.
The fish swam past me as rapidly as the birds do here in the air.
That means, as we fishes describe it, a kind of cuttle or ink-fish among men.
A month afterwards he came again to wish us good-bye, and brought with him a large fish for my mother.
The large amber windows were open, and the fish swam in, just as the swallows fly into our houses when we open the windows, excepting that the fishes swam up to the princesses, ate out of their hands, and allowed themselves to be stroked.
A shield with a dried salt fish painted on it flew exactly in front of the door of a house where dwelt a man who wrote a newspaper.
Besides this the managers bring up the fish from the boats, cut them open, prepare them, and have generally a great deal to do.
Where Heaven sends food for two, a third can manage to find a meal, and in the depth of the sea there is many a dish of fish for the hungry.
We had no success with the sieve, the fish here being all jumpers, and jumping out of the net.
And yet this poor Samuel Brohl came very near living as happy and contented in the paternal mire as a fish in water.
His stupid father refused him all instruction, and beat him unmercifully; he appeared intelligent; he made me think of a fresh-water fish condemned to live in a quagmire.
For the love of God, leave guns as they are, and invent nothing more, or you will go overboard, and there will be no one to fish you out.
After a pause she added, "I wonder if I dare tell you, my dear, of an idea that has occurred to me?
I read physiognomies very correctly, and I never need to see people twice to know how far they can be relied on.
He picked up the fish one by one; his eye and touch told him that they had been alive and feeding within the hour.
Now the boys either had, or fancied they had, a right also to fish at their pleasure over the whole of this part of the river, and would not understand that the right (if any) only extended to the Rugby side.
Every little pitiful coarse fish in the Avon was on the alert for the flies, and gorging his wretched carcass with hundreds daily, the gluttonous rogues!
He fished for some time with small success: not a fish would rise at him; but as he prowled along the bank, he was presently aware of mighty ones feeding in a pool on the opposite side, under the shade of a huge willow tree.
Here he comes, sauntering along with a straw in his mouth, the queerest, coolest fish in Rugby; if he were tumbled into the moon this minute, he would just pick himself up without taking his hands out of his pockets or turning a hair.
Muzzling in a flour-tub#: running their heads into a tub of flour to fish out prizes.
Tom, intent on a fish which had risen at him twice, answered only with a grunt.
There is a good deal of dispute as to how long the flying fish can stay out of water, and the longest time I have heard any one give to it is thirty seconds.
The habit of most of the Australian rivers of running dry at certain portions of the year is a serious discouragement to the industry of fish culture.
It is said to be not as salt as the famous Dead Sea near Jerusalem, but it is a great deal salter than the ocean, and no fish of any kind lives in it.
Some say that the flying fish can stay in the air only while its wings are wet, but that is a point on which I do not care to give any opinion, for the simple reason that I don't know.
It is a fish caught in the Murray River, and I think you'll like it, gentlemen.
I asked a resident of the neighborhood," said Harry, "if they had ever tried the plan of putting fish from the ocean into this Australian Dead Sea.
It is proper to say that this bird is not at all courageous, and often gives up the fish that he catches to the piratical frigate bird.
The flying motion of this fish is more fanciful than real.
Many of the lakes contain no fish whatever, and the few that are found there are poor eating.
Flying fish seem to fly when disturbed by big fishes, or, possibly, by the commotion that a vessel creates in going through the water.
When the party returned to the hotel for dinner, they were regaled with a fish which was new to them.
When another bird has caught a fish the frigate bird attacks him, and takes away his prize, catching it in the air as it falls from the victim's claws.
They said they had done so, but the fish thus transported always died in a few hours, and the experiment of stocking the lake had been given up long ago.
Fish Canapés Pound a quarter of a pound of cooked fish to a paste; season it with a few drops of onion juice, a saltspoonful of salt, and a dash of black pepper.
Fish Canapés Pick apart sufficient cold cooked fish to make a half pint.
When this is hot add the fish and four or five nice sliced mushrooms; stand over hot water, without stirring, until the fish is thoroughly heated.
Fish should be rubbed or pounded in a mortar; add enough sauce tartare to make it sufficiently moist to easily spread.
Salmon Sandwiches Flake cold boiled salmon, or open a can of salmon, drain it free from oil and break the fish apart in good-sized flakes; sprinkle them with salt, pepper and lemon juice.
If you have lettuce or cress, either shred it, or put one leaf between the fish and the buttered bread.
A hot canapé, however, is served in the place of fish or as an entrée.
Fish Salad Sandwiches Flake one can of salmon, or an equal quantity of cold boiled fish.
Dish these on square paper mats on individual plates, fill the centers with the creamed fish and send at once to the table.
If they are dressed with either fish or shell-fish they will take the place of that course.
Cucumber Sandwiches These are very nice to serve with a fish course in place of bread or rolls and a salad.
A wizened old Chinawoman was cooking fish at a small stove in the open space in front--no doubt a late breakfast for the crews of the sampans, who were resting after nocturnal prowlings.
More than once they had diverted the spectators on the bank by having to swim for it, and subsequently to fish up the machine from the bottom.
Without any suspicion other than that the vessel had somehow worked loose, she dropped the fish she had been preparing, and hobbled down the shore with the intention of tying the boat up again.
A fish may sport in the kettle, but his life will not be long.
Allie dropped to her knees and wiped her hands on the grass while Neale killed the fish and strung it upon a willow with the others he had caught.
There were deep, swirling pools running under the banks, and in these Neale hooked fish he could not handle with his poor tackle, and they broke away.
Neale could scarcely conceal his delight, and in his effort to appear natural made a poor showing at this pool, losing two fish and scaring others so they would not rise.
The fish dropped in the grass and began to thresh.
Item, I gave notice throughout the parish that on Sunday next I should administer the Blessed Sacrament, and in the meantime I bought up all the large fish that the people of the village had caught.
However, in all the villages a great supply of fish was caught by the mercy of God, especially herring; but they were very low in price.
Pokers and Quatzners of Anklam and Lassan [Footnote: These people still go about the Achterwater every day in small boats called Polten and Quatzen, and buy from the boors any fish they may have caught.
On Friday, the day of Freya, or Venus, many Christians still eat only fish, fish being sacred to the female deity.
Peter to catch a fish with money in its mouth (why not, by the way, have fished directly for the coin?
I then prepared six long taper sticks with forked ends, and ordered more hands to divide the fish equally to the piles.
So I told them the most necessary thing at present was to stow the fish in the boat; for it was the largest I had ever taken, and I could not wholly do it myself.
The prettiest of all these fish is the murena; it is like a snake, and as if formed of the finest porphyry.
The Romans had no liking for Corsican slaves--they were apt to be refractory; but the Corsican fish figured on the tables of the great, and even Juvenal has a word of commendation for them.
When she descended to the beach to collect the shell fish she took exactly one hundred.
I have done nothing to grieve him; only bent over his basket and laughed when I saw that fish escape; but why did not the man laugh also?
Now it happened that on that very day, my brother was going to seek for shell-fish at a place called La Banque au Mouton.
Who can behold without astonishment, prodigious shoals of fish rising from the depths of the sea, like a flock of sheep, and offering themselves to the use and necessities of mankind?
Th' imbracing seas and ambient air Now in his holy fires burn; Fish couple, birds and beasts in pair Do their own sacrifices turn.
Neptune as unknown as his fishmight dwell, But that you seat him in his throne of shell.
We had enough fish for supper, so we decided to leave some of them for morning, went ashore, built a fire, cooked our trout and bacon, and ate supper by the light of the fire.
Even after one fish was securely hooked and was struggling for his freedom others would appear and try to take the fly away from him.
It was now quite dark and we were losing more fish than we saved.
If we should get some fishthe grub might be stretched across four days.
I'm dropping down the flue a piece of fish line with a piece of lead on the end to carry it," he said, suiting the action to the word.
I should want half a dozen men to launch them, and then you would want to go with me, and the bare sight of you would be enough to frighten away all the fish in the Shannon.
Cat's footfall, breath of fish the flowering beard of a woman.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fish" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
