It ran: 'That no alien should lade or buy fresh pilchards above the number of 1,000 in a day; no man .
Pilchards were a very important item, and many regulations were made in reference to them.
I didn't think," said Beetle, meekly, scooping out pilchards with a spoon.
Had all his beastly little friends on top of me," said Beetle from behind a jar of pilchards and a book.
The largest catch ofpilchards recorded is that of a St. Ives seine.
The chief commerce of these towns, as to their sea-affairs, is the pilchards and Newfoundland fishing, which is very profitable to them all.
The pilchards in vast schools began to visit the coast of Cornwall, and the fishermen in all directions were preparing for their capture.
The fishermen prefer a thick foggy night and a loppy sea, as under those circumstances the pilchards do not perceive the net in their way.
The small nets were used to encircle as many fish as they could lift, which were quickly hauled on board in the ordinary way, while other boats ladled the pilchards out of the water with baskets.
A certain number, who possess boats and nets, form a company, and fish together when the pilchards visit their coast, dividing afterwards the amount they receive for the fish caught.
I do not see that we should expect to be better off than they were; He Who taught the pilchards to visit our shores will send them into our nets if He thinks fit.
First a layer of salt was spread, then a layer of pilchards, and so on, layers of pilchards and salt alternating, till a vast mound was raised.
In summer and autumn pilchards are caught by drift nets; later in the year they are taken off the northern coast by seine nets.
When brought to shore the pilchards are carried to the cellars to be cured.
There is also a trade in "sardines," young pilchards taking the place of the real Mediterranean fish.
Good luck to His Holiness; may he repent, And add just six months to the length of his Lent; And tell all his vassals from Rome to the Poles, There's nothing like pilchards for saving their souls.
Good catches of pilchards or bad make all the difference here, where these peculiarly Cornish fish are largely prepared and packed for export to Italy.
This china-clay is one of Cornwall's most living industries now that the tin-mining has declined, and the pilchards come so scantily.
A pair of fish-scales faces the entrance, and the jolly pilchards themselves hang over your head, on a signboard that creaks mightily when the wind blows from the south.
Uncle Issy; "for the pilchards be all gone up Channel these two months.
Though the fishing villages as a rule are in communication only through coaches, or more often carts, the news of the first catch rapidly flies; naturally each place anticipating the advent of the pilchards at any moment.
The row of carefully arranged pilchards is then thatched over and left to pickle for about a month.
Cornish pilchards are, no doubt, sufficiently well known to create some interest in the method by which they are caught.
Pickled pilchards are exported to Italy in casks; and the abusers of the Pope and all his works wax fat.
Pickled pilchards he looked on as a bond of union between the two countries.
Pilchards feed bodies, the Pope souls, and the shekels come here.
But even when the important people had the taproom of the Five Pilchards to themselves, they were at a loss.
Pilchards of the first catch are the daintiest dish I know.
For the first time in the history of the parish they passed by the open door of the Five Pilchards and made their way to the Three Jolly Mariners, to the delight of the innkeeper and the amazement of its few habitues.
The fishermen were idle, waiting for pilchards to appear off the coast.
The great art is to let as few of the pilchards escape as possible, while this process is being completed.
It is understood to be their privilege to keep as many pilchards as they can get in this way by their dexterity, in spite of a liberal allowance of strokes aimed at their hands; and their adroitness richly deserves its reward.
In a good season, a dozen pilchardsare sold for one penny.
After the stone floor has been swept clean, a thin layer of salt is spread on it, and covered with pilchards laid partly edgewise, and close together.
The first sight from the cliffs of a shoal of pilchards advancing towards the land, is not a little interesting.
Transactions are managed on the ready money principle, and the markets of Italy and Spain (where pilchards are considered a great delicacy) are always open to any supply.
To begin, however, with the pilchards themselves, as forming one of the staple commercial commodities of Cornwall.
Then another layer of salt, smoothed fine with the palm of the hand, is laid over the pilchards; and then more pilchards are placed upon that; and so on until the heap rises to four feet or more.
Some idea of the almost incalculable multitude of pilchards caught on the shores of Cornwall, may be formed from the following data.
A song on the curing ofpilchards (not a very poetical subject) by John Boson.
The art is now to let as few of the pilchards escape as possible while the process is being completed.
From the inexhaustible treasures in the earth, and from the equally inexhaustible shoals of pilchards which annually visit the coast, the working population of Cornwall derived their regular means of support where agriculture would fail them.
The pilchards are collected from it in a smaller net known as the "tuck.
In Provence they are driven, much as are the pilchards in Cornwall, into an enclosed space called the madrague, where at last the fish finds itself ensnared in shallow water.
He is placed at his post, where he can command an uninterrupted view of the sea, some days before the pilchards are expected.
Meanwhile the devoted pilchards press on--a compact mass of thousands on thousands of fish--swimming to meet their doom.
The art is how to let as few of the pilchards escape as possible while the process is being completed.
When the tucking-boats are brought in, then the women take their turn, and pack the pilchards in the fish-cellars or salting-houses.
They remember the time when a rich school was the wealth of the whole cove, and when a string of fresh pilchards would be given freely to any one coming to the cove at the time of bulking, or, as we should call it, storing.
All the boats engaged form a close circle round the inner line of corks, which is now a little sea of silver where the imprisoned pilchards beat and flutter, producing a sound for which we have no satisfactory onomatopoetic word.
From that day no more pilchards visited the bay during that season.
The gentleman then required the party to surrender what arms and money they had with them, and Mr. Sands handed over forty guineas that he had received at Falmouth for pilchards just before he was driven out to sea in the boat.
By the advice of Tregoss a day was set apart for humiliation and prayer, and next day a shoal of pilchards arrived.
Ives, in the summer, the greater portion of the fishing season had passed without the pilchards appearing, and this to the great distress of the people.
As the season advances, the pilchards come nearer in-shore, and now the great season of the pilchard-fishery arrives.
This kind of fishing can only be carried on by night, for the pilchards are too keen-sighted to swim into the meshes by day.
A fish-cellar for pilchardsis usually cut out of the rock, and the floor is covered with a layer of salt.
The pilchards swim into the nets, thrust their heads through the meshes, and are caught by the gills.
It is a vast shoal of pilchards coming in-shore, and the apparent idlers on the cliff were watching for it.
The pilchards are taken generally from the middle of August to the middle of September, when large "schools" are seen coming up the Channel.
A rock with a cave in it and a white incrustation is regarded here with some superstitious reverence, and fishermen throw a few pilchards or herrings to it as an oblation when returning from fishing.
A not over-complimentary saying in Cornwall is that "pilchards and women when they are bad are very bad, and when good are only middling.
Pilchards appear in vast shoals off the Cornish coasts about the middle of July, and disappear at the beginning of winter; though a few of them sometimes return again after Christmas.
In an old book of natural history published in 1776, the principal fishery of pilchards is described.
Pilchards constitute an important article of food to the poorer classes on the coast, but doubtless the Cornishmen get very tired of them as an article of diet.
In addition to seining large numbers of pilchards are taken in drift nets.
Grey Gull's coming in with 'bout the gashliest take o' pilchards as never was.
The skimmings which float on the water in which the pilchardsare washed, bear the name of Garbage, and are sold to the soap-boilers.
The preparations for this fishery are generally commenced about the end of July,[68] as the period at which the Pilchards are expected to pay their annual visit.
At one time more pilchards were taken here than at any other spot, but the pilchard is a fickle fish, and has no consideration beyond the choice of feeding-grounds; if better satisfied elsewhere, no sentiment interferes with its migrations.
Pilchards are still caught here, with the old-fashioned seine-nets; but their numbers have much decreased.
It has often been debated whetherpilchards and sardines are one and the same; Mr. Aflalo says they are identical.
The St. Ives men are not dependent on pilchards only, happily for them; in winter their seines take many mullet, which are mostly sent to Paris.
The fishing for pilchards is here done by trawlers, not by seines, as round Land's End.
Pilchards now for the most part keep further west.
But there are still a good many pilchards taken off Mevagissey, and these are largely cured here--many under their own name, but a large number find their way to the factory of the Cornish Sardine Company established in the town.
But the pilchards do not come so far eastward now; the house remains to remind Newquay, now in the day of its pride and fashion, that it was a humble lowly fishing village.
Countless myriads of Pilchards visit the Cornish coast; strangely enough, they frequent only this corner of our seas.
This savage hunter comes after the Herrings, Pilchards and Sprats.
When these are shot, millions of pilchards are often enclosed in a single net.
As there are 3,000 pilchards in each hogshead, the catch amounted to nearly eleven million fish!
Many others as well as Maggot made money by the pilchards at that time.
No sign o' pilchers yet," observed Maggot, referring to the immense shoals of pilchards which visit the Cornish coasts in the autumn of each year, and form a large portion of the wealth of the county.
It is probable that the fish, here called pilchards were of one of the kinds of flying fish, which is of the same genus with the herring and pilchard.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pilchards" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
