Plaice and cod, for example, are smaller here than those caught in the North Sea and the latter are scarce; and the haddock, one of the most important of east coast fish, is here almost unknown.
Then with a long stick he pushed the hot wood and coals from the first hole into the second, and carefully laid the bigplaice fish on the hot sand, pushed a thick covering of hot sand over it, and started a new fire on top of it.
The codfish, plaice and flounder Amos took out carefully and carried to a large rock further up the beach.
So the fishing-boats swung at anchor in the harbor, and the men lingered about the landing, or fished for plaice fish and sole from their dories near shore.
The individual development of an asymmetrical flat-fish, like a plaice or sole, which rests and swims on one side, tells us plainly that its ancestors were symmetrical fishes.
Its relatives, like plaice and sole, are strictly marine.
Rapid Colour-change Bony flat-fishes, like plaice and sole, have a remarkable power of adjusting their hue and pattern to the surrounding gravel and sand, so that it is difficult to find them even when we know that they are there.
The Flounders and Plaice (Platessa) inhabit the northern seas of Europe.
The body of the halibut is more elongated than that of the plaice or flounder, the jaws and pharyngeans being armed with strong and pointed teeth.
Among the Pleuronectidæ, soles, turbot, flounders, and plaice may be noted.
He sent his man down throw the towne, 5 To the plaice wher she was dwellan: O haste and cum to my maister deare, Gin ye bin Barbara Allan.
The plaice were the only ones which had not to be cut open.
That was the least that Withers could do for her, to insist that Mr. Hopkins should let her have dabs and plaice exceptionally cheap.
Meanwhile the boat was forced on beneath the line and a whiting and a couple of small plaicewere taken off.
The boxes were dragged forward again, and soles and plaice were thrust in, flapping and springing in their captors' hands.
The principal British flat-fishes are thePlaice (Pleuronectes platessa) and Flounder (P.
I had one specimen of Plaice in the living condition which had the middle third of its upper surface white, and the whole of the lower side white as usual.
In this form the bony tubercles on the head in the Plaice are replaced by a continuous rough osseous ridge, and the scales are as much spinulated as in the Plaice of the Baltic.
Both Plaice and Flounders in the Baltic are much more spiny than in the North Sea, although in the Flounder no sexual difference in this respect has been noted.
One specimen ofPlaice of this type was kept alive in the aquarium, and it lay on its side, buried itself in the sand, and when disturbed swam horizontally, like a normal specimen.
The same condition, but to a much slighter degree, was afterwards shown by myself to occur constantly in Plaicefrom the English Channel and North Sea.
In comparing certain geographical races of Plaice and Flounder the facts seem to suggest that differences of habitat may have something to do with the development of the scales.
Pewts father for putting in new panes of glass in plaice of them whitch Pewt broak.
Th' 'ould plaice 'as not bin t' same to me sin' she went.
The percentage of marked plaice annually recaptured in the North Sea has been found to be remarkably high (from 25 to 50 %), and throws a significant light on the intensity of fishing under modern conditions.
In 1905 one-half of the cod and a quarter of the haddock and plaice landed at east coast ports of England were caught in waters beyond the North Sea.
It seems probable that the impoverishment of the stock of plaice on the central grounds of the North Sea is mainly attributable to the excessive rate of capture of plaice during their annual off-shore migrations from the coast.
Warriors and kings she would delight in transforming into plaice or prawns, and haughty queens into Brussels sprouts.
The plaice season succeeds to that of sprats, with the interval of mackerel, which continues until the end of May, when Scotland and Ireland begin to pass down their salmon into the market.
The body of the Halibut is more elongated than that of the Plaice or Flounder, and its jaws are armed with strong and pointed teeth.
The Common Plaice attains the length of ten or twelve inches.
The Flounders and Plaice inhabit the northern seas of Europe.
Plaice spawn in the beginning of February, and when full-grown assume something like the shape of a turbot; but the flesh is very different, being soft and nearly tasteless.
Plaice feed on small fish and young crustacea, and have sometimes been taken on our coasts weighing fifteen pounds, but a fish half that weight is considered very large.
The question had caught her at a moment when her mouth was overfull of fried plaice and potatoes.
By this time Mrs. Brunger had reduced the plaice and potatoes to conversational proportions.
Plaice mouth, a mouth like that of a plaice; a small or wry mouth.
The fishermen have to do it, else we wouldn't get any breakfast, and of courseplaice are very nice for breakfast.
In the morning, there were fried plaice for breakfast, and Henry ate two of them.
He looked over the side of the trawler and saw baskets of dabs and plaice and some soles and turbot and a couple of crabs.
A plaice flapped helplessly and fell off the heap in the basket on to the bottom of the boat, and one of the fishermen trod on it.
Ninian, and then he added excitedly, "Oh, I say, plaice and dabs and a lobster .
And thairupoun ar many chapelles founded, as that our Lady war mychttiar, and that sche took more pleasour in one plaice then in ane uther; as of laite dayis our Lady of Karsgreng hes hopped fra ane grene hillock to ane uther.
And seizing a huge plaice by the tail he whirled it round and struck Mrs. Shmendrik full in the face, shouting, "Take that, you old witch!
It was while discussing a deliciously brown oblong of the Dutch plaice of the ballad that Samuel Levine appeared to be struck by an idea.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "plaice" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
