In hospitable Cornwall, especially on such a day, every guest was welcome; and the strangers sat peaceably, but ate nothing, though there was both hake and pilchard within reach.
The fisheries of tunny, pilchard and anchovy are extensively prosecuted for the supply of the Italian markets; but comparatively few of the natives are engaged in this industry.
Let's 'ave a look at the money, Sam," said Pilchard when the cigars were alight.
In taking fish out of his net by night, he felt it to be neither a pilchard nor a herring, and supposed it something rare.
The Cornishmen do not think so, for they find the pilchard fishing to be a source of great wealth.
She made a little time over his splendour, and asked if he was going to the pilchard fishing in such finery.
About the beginning of the summer, just before the pilchard season, Jacob Trenager died.
She was building for the pilchard season and was to be ready for the middle of June.
The pilchard season went, as it had come, in a day; men counted their gains and returned to their usual life.
The seine was as familiar to the Athenians, as the Pilchard fishery is to the inhabitants of Cornwall; and it is said that Eschylus took great delight in witnessing it.
Mr. Pennant likewise observes that the scales of the latter easily drop off, whereas those of the Pilchard adhere very closely.
As we have not hitherto described the manner in which the Pilchard Fishery is conducted, perhaps the present will be an appropriate opportunity.
A History of the Pilchard Fishery will be presented to our readers in the Excursion to Saint Ives.
Penzance, the inhabitants of which are chiefly engaged in the pilchard fisheries.
It has a fine harbour and docks, and is the centre of the mackerel and pilchard fishing industries.
St. Mawes Castle and Pendennis Castle; pilchard fishing is actively engaged in, and there are exports of tin and copper.
He looked toward the door and saw Pilchard, and crossing the room, he greeted him warmly and read the contract Pilchard pulled from his pocket.
Swan was so silent and reserved, and he worked with such unflinching constancy, that Pilchardoften felt as if he too must be developing some plan.
His pulse had fallen below normal, and his skin assumed a strange yellow hue, the color of a lemon, and in these signs and the constant hiccough which convulsed the death-stricken frame Pilchard guessed properly what the termination must be.
To work all night on the borders of a swamp in this rainy season, which is almost certain death for a white man--Pilchard closed his eyes and peacefully slept.
Sober as a dove Day hovered in the sky, and that solemn change which is Death was somewhere near, hiding and waiting; and Pilchard and Death and the breaking Day were for one second alone.
About noonPilchard came out to him with a white face.
All this was in Pilchard's mind as well as Swan's, and all this suddenly showed Pilchard how completely Swan was in his power.
Pilchard saw instantly that he must have Swan to do the work.
Pilchard sank to a dilapidated bench and lighted a cigarette; and Swan, not having even sufficient spirit to smoke, stretched himself bodily on the flat stones which paved the plaza, and placed his old hat upon his upturned face.
Pilchard and Swan had stopped to rest in the middle of the plaza.
Pilchard breathed more smoke through his nose, then said with a sigh: "That's hard luck, Swan.
The fourth day - continued The Umber or Grayling Chapter VI Piscator The Umber and Grayling are thought by some to differ as the Herring and Pilchard do.
Lonely as the spot was, they often quaked with apprehension lest their secret should be discovered, especially during the pilchard season.
The inn fronted the jetty, but on its southward side a narrow lane ran between the blind walls of the pilchard fishers' salting-houses.
The pilchard fishing was for several days so engrossing an occupation that the villagers had no time for fostering their grievance against the Towers.
This Shark comes to seek the same prey as the fisherman--the shoals of Mackerel and Pilchard (a cousin of the Herring).
The Pilchard is one of them; the Sardine is merely a young Pilchard.
As the calm continued, papa took us on shore in the boat to visit the curing-house; and we heard a great deal more about the pilchard fishery from the men on the beach.
Most of the inhabitants are engaged in the pilchardand herring fishery.
In its harbour we now saw a large fleet of boats, engaged in the pilchard and mackerel fishery.
The fisheries of Cornwall have been another very important industry, especially the mackerel and pilchard fishing.
The pilchard is a very delicious fish, similar to a herring, and is found almost exclusively on the Cornish coast.
To this ancient we will address all our inquiries; and he is well qualified to answer us, for the poor old fellow has worked away all the pith and marrow of his life in the pilchard fishery.
The fisheries not only employ all the inhabitants of the coast, but, in the pilchard season, many of the farm work-people as well.
Having now inspected the progress of the pilchard fishery, from the catching to the curing, we have seen all that we can personally observe of its different processes, at one opportunity.
Late that night, we got to the large sea-port town of St. Ives; and stayed there two or three days to look at the pilchard fishery, which was then proceeding with all the bustle and activity denoting the commencement of a good season.
But now, while we have a chance, while the doorway is accidentally clear for a few moments, let us enter the salting-house, and approach the noisiest and most amusing of all the scenes which the pilchard fishery presents.
Nothing in the pilchard itself, or in connexion with the pilchard, runs to waste--the precious little fish is a treasure in every part of him.
As an investment for money, on a small scale, the pilchardfishery offers the first great advantage of security.
A special tax was levied on the pilchard fishery to provide money for the fortifications, and a leat or water-course was constructed with the primary object, it is said, of supplying fresh water for the royal ships.
Able now to use his nets, Michael could look forward to the pilchard season, when he might hope to reap a rich harvest from the sea.
I will do my best now, and when the pilchardseason comes on I hope, if I can get David Treloar or another hand in the boat, to do still better.
The pilchard harvest had not been as successful as the fishermen desired, and they kept their boats at sea in the hopes of obtaining a share of the schools of fish which still hovered off their coasts.
Such is the ordinary way of catching the pilchard on the coast of Cornwall with seines.
I answered, fresh pilchard bait; and offered him some, delicately forbearing to return the question, since it is an article of faith with us that the burgesses of Lestiddle bait with earthworms which they dig out of their back gardens.
Well, he accepted my pilchard bait, and pulled up two score of mackerel within as many minutes, which doubtless gave him something to boast about on his return.
They don't sail for the pilchard ground till sundown.
Then taking the large hook, he passed it in at the tail, drew the pilchardcarefully up the shank, and then held up the hook for Arthur to see, with the broad flaps hanging down on either side of the curve and barbed point.
No, Josh; catching pilchard and mackerel is not good enough for me.
Nobody won't bring us cake and loaves o' bread and pilchard and tea, will they?
Mischievous brutes; they follow the drift-nets, and bite the herring and pilchard out of 'em.
But after the first inspection the sight of baskets full of silvery pilchard began to grow monotonous, and Dick exclaimed: "I say, father, it must be breakfast time now.
Hidden among its trees in a dip of the land lies Phillack with a badly restored church, and in the graveyard a good two-holed cross; but as this bay is famous for pilchard fishing the main interest lies towards the sea.
Great black pilchardboats are dragged by four horses from their accustomed resting-place and towed out towards the seine.
The best account of the Hayle and St. Ives pilchard fishing is by Mr. H.
Spring was coming in, the gardens were already gay with flowers, and the roses that trailed around the windows and porches of the pilchard fishermen's huts were all in bud, and promised soon to show a wealth of bloom.
He sketched a great deal, too--made pictures, the pilchard fishermen called it.
The flying Pilchard and the frisking Dace" probably belong to the fish monsters alluded to in the Tempest.
The Pilchard fishery is an important branch of commerce.
THE chief difference between this fish and the herring is, that the body of the Pilchard is more round and thick; the nose shorter in proportion, turning up; and the under jaw shorter.
The pilchard fishery is practically at its best directly off the Quiberon peninsula, opposite Lorient and Concarneau.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pilchard" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
