Why, only last week one of our Haddisport drifters went out to the herring fishing with a splash of red paint on her starboard bow.
If he hold the herring he holds the scales, my sapient brother," cried the fat man.
May I be broiled like a red herring if I do not think they are wise enough to skin a flint and draw oil out of a brick wall.
The Herring Gulls prefer the grassy downs in the hollow on the north side of the Bass, making their somewhat slight nests amongst the herbage.
A few Herring Gulls breed here and there among the other species, but this bird has very few large colonies in the northern shires.
There are also many Kittiwakes nesting about the cliffs of the Bass, and a few Herring Gulls.
What price gave these warsmen for thy herring the morn, gossip?
As this diagonal movement is reversed in each succeeding row, the surface has an uneven appearance sometimes termed "herring bone" weave.
There is considerable discontent among the crew, many of whom are anxious to get back home to be in time for the herring season, when labour always commands a high price upon the Scotch coast.
The double grievance of being debarred from the herring fishing and of being detained in what they choose to call a haunted vessel, may lead them to do something rash.
Herring had a good voice when he wanted to display it, and he now read the lines that the doctor had read, the poem being about twice as long as the portion already given.
We came to the conclusion that you got your black eye in trying to stop Herring when he was getting out of the window of the doctor's cottage after he had put back the manuscript he had been 'fixing,' as he called it.
But, Billy, what areHerring and Jim Jenkins doing together and what are they so interested about?
Just then Merritt himself, in a ready made suit of clothes came out of a hotel on the corner, the boys seeing him before he saw them or Herring got sight of him.
It shows Herring talking to Jenkins, but you cannot tell what he says," remarked Jack with a smile.
Pete Herring has always had it in for Jack since he first came here.
I think it ought to be known that Herring and Merritt tried to give you a black eye, Jack.
Other persons besidesHerring may have seen the verses in the other paper, Dick.
Herring would have kept on, claiming that this was only a trick of the boy to give his mate a chance to win the match, but a loud shout from the boys on the bank compelled him to stop.
Merritt speedily came up, swam to the boat and tried to clamber aboard, Herring shouting at him and warning him off.
Herring said nothing, but looked very surly, and the doctor went on.
There was a deep shadow on the bank of the river, however, on account of the trees and the mountains behind them, and when all was still Herring and Merritt stole from their tent and hurried toward the shore.
He would not pass Herring and Merritt, but went across the river where he could get sight of young Smith, who was going on at a good rate, Herring trying his best to reach him, but in vain.
Larus maior in great abundance [about struck out] in [written above] herring time about yarmouth.
This bird is known to our fishermen as theHerring Loon, the Red-throated and perhaps also the Black-throated Divers being called Sprat Loons.
By Larus major he would probably mean the Black-backed and Herring Gulls which are found on the shore all the year round, most frequently in the immature plumage, but they most abound "in herring time.
Among these are found Bleakes or bliccae[74] a thinne herring like fishe wch some will also think to bee young herrings.
I thought to have mentioned I am bold to giue you this trouble so soone agayne haue you putt in a sea fish calld a bleak [see Note 74] a fish like an herring often taken with us and eat butt a more lanck & thinne & drye fish.
I have the draught of that an Herring & a pilcher in one paper upon that account [Fol.
I haue the head of one which was taken not long ago entangled in the Herring netts the sword aboue 2 foot in length.
Cæsar lifted his head with a pinch of his herring between finger and thumb half way to his open mouth.
It was still early in the herring season, but the fishing was in full swing.
Pete was put ashore; his Nickey went round the Calf to the herring ground beyond the shoulder; a number of fishermen were waiting for him on the quay, with heavy looks and hands deep in their trousers-pockets.
I remember a girl over Foxal way that was married to a man like that, and then he went off to Kinsale, and got kept for the herring riots--d'ye mind them?
Fishermen in sea-boots and sou'westers, with oilskin over one arm and a string of herring in the other hand, were trooping from the harbour up to the Zigzag by the rock called the Creg Malin.
He turned his herring yonder night when he left goodbye to the four of us," he said.
The sea came tumbling down like a shoal of seahogs, and washed the faces of the men as they sat in oilskins on the hatch-head, shaking the herring out of the nets into the hold.
It was an exquisite evening toward the end of May; with a purple sunset brightening the seaward stretches, and the gathering herring fleet slowly drifting in the placid harbor.
Gudewife, mak' us a cup o' tea, and put some herring to toast.
I will just wash the salt off my face and then come and breakfast with you; and toast me a couple of herring, Maggie, for I am as hungry as a fisherman, and I have not tasted a herring since I left Pittenloch.
Inverness, is the chief seat of the herring fishery in Scotland; Wick proper, with its suburbs Louisburgh and Boathaven, is on the N.
Loch Shin the largest of 300 lochs; there are extensive deer forests and grouse moors, while valuable salmon and herring fisheries exist round the coasts; is the most sparsely populated county in Scotland.
Aberdeen; has a small harbour, and is chiefly engaged in herring and haddock fishing.
Dover; has a fine harbour and esplanade; is much engaged in the herring and mackerel fisheries, and is steam-packet station for Boulogne; a fine railway viaduct spans the valley in which the old town lies.
This region is governed by Newfoundland; its chief industry is cod and herring fishing.
The place where the ship went down was only about three times her length to the southward of the entrance into Herring Cove.
They followed the ship at a short distance till she foundered, and with extreme difficulty at length reached Herring Cove.
Presently he slapped his side pocket and produced therefrom a brand-new cigarette case and a packet of Vansittart's Red Herring cigarettes.
And after the sausages had ceased to be, he lit a Red Herringcigarette and went swaggering out into the twilight street.
There they stopped awhile at the only inn in the place, and Mr. Hoopdriver took up a position which commanded the inn door, and mopped his face and thirsted and smoked a Red Herring cigarette.
Thus on the Monday, Lefebvre put up a record for rounding the course and Bleriot beat it, to be beaten in turn by Glenn Curtiss on his Curtiss-Herring biplane.
The herring fisheries were, however, the staple industry of Holland and Zeeland.
The herring harvest, through the careful and scientific methods that were employed in curing the fish and packing them in barrels, became a durable and much sought for article of commerce.
Large takes of salmon, sturgeon, and herring rewarded our annual exertions, and our storeroom again assumed a well-stocked appearance.
A day after the herring fishery was over, and the shoal had left our bay, a great number of seals appeared, attracted by the refuse of the herrings which we had thrown into the sea.
This occupation was followed by a great deal of work connected with the annual return of the herring shoals, which now took place; to them succeeding, as on former occasions, shoals of other fish, and many seals.
The shoals of herring made their appearance just as we finished our agricultural operations.
The plaster this formed with water was smooth and white, and as I had then no particular use to which I might put it, I plastered over some of the herring casks, that I might be perfectly certain that all air was excluded.
It enjoyed a practical monopoly of the sale of raw and refined sugars, had the right to distil spirits from molasses free of duty, dealt largely in cured herring and salmon, sent hides to English tanners and manufactured soap and linen.
The herring fishery has developed to considerable proportions, the harbour having been enlarged and protected by piers and a breakwater.
Salmon, cod, lobsters, and herring form most of the catch, amounting in value to upward of twenty million dollars yearly.
Practically no distinction is made between full-grown herring and alewives of the same size.
The herring is a much smaller fish than the cod, and, commercially, is much less important.
I told him had puzzled me before he was born; and then I puzzled him by asking, if a Herring and a Half cost three Halfpence, how many could he buy for Sixpence; which took him a good While to make out.
Did he own several small herring boats, and have a share in a curing-house, before he went a-whaling?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "herring" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
