Prawns are very common on the coasts of France and England; they are chiefly found among sea-weed, and in the vicinity of rocks, at a little distance from the shore.
Being in great request for the table, both shrimps and Prawns are eagerly sought for by fishermen, who catch them either in osier baskets, similar to those employed in catching lobsters, or in a kind of net called a Putting-net.
The raw fish is far from unpalatable and the prawns are exquisite, but the coco sprout salad is the only dish of the lot worthy to be mentioned in the same breath with the miti-hari-ed pig.
And the beautiful transparent, sandy-gray prawns skipped in his palm as he picked them out of the net with a dry jerk and put them into his creel.
I ate my prawns this morning," she added, "and they were excellent.
Had some hock and a seltzer, went down town, met Fanny and Belle, and so home in time for a magnificent dinner of prawns and an eel cooked in oil, both from our own river.
The developmental history of Mysis, the near relationship of which with the Shrimps and Prawns has recently again been generally recognised, has been described in detail by Van Beneden.
This is also the position in which we usually see the Zoeae of the Shrimps and Prawns (Figure 27), which agree in their general appearance with those of the Hermit Crabs.
In other instances, the courses which lead from a similar starting-point to a similar goal, separate widely in the middle of the development, as in the Prawns with Nauplius-brood already described.
But not a single characteristic of this section is retained by the brood of some Prawns belonging to the genus Peneus or in its vicinity.
Crabs and prawns positively require feeding, and Madrepores may be fed for amusement.
Shrimps and prawns may be used freely; they are lively creatures, and much more beautiful when seen in motion, gliding about like ghosts, than would be imagined by any one judging from the appearance of specimens on the table.
Prawns are sold in Dublin six and seven inches in length, and are considered splendid feeding.
They do all these things, and they also do carpenter work, blow police whistles, make eating tools to eat land-prawns with and put molecule-model balls together.
I suppose our bumper crop of land-prawns is what brought them into this section?
Probably cleaned up all the prawns around the camp and went hunting farther out into the woods, thought Jack.
This spring, it was even drier, so now they have landprawns all over central Beta.
Never saw so blasted many land-prawns as this summer.
Prawns take longer to go into the nets after a second round in the same water.
After we had hauled and shot again the sixteenth net, Uncle Jake counted one hundred and seventy odd prawns from his bag into the basket.
Stop, while he hauls very slowly and stealthily at first, lest prawns and lobsters jump out, then swiftly, raising his arms high above his head, until the net is aboard.
We had caught about two hundred prawns between us, a few lobsters and some wild-crabs.
They prawns knows when 'tis beginning to flow so well as yu an' me.
There's prawns there if yu knows where to look, but not like 't used to be.
Then in a skim-net,[18] with marvellous dexterity, he caught the almost invisible prawns as they darted away.
I had ladled them on to my plate, as mere prawns such as went by the name at home, only bigger.
I made a mental calculation that at least seven shillings had been sunk in the little dishful that I had reckoned as worth sixpence perhaps--because the prawns were so exceptionally fine.
Also I recall a moment of astonishment at finding that prawns in England were considered cheap at tenpence a dozen.
In the bazaars several species of edible crabs are exposed for sale; and amongst the delicacies at the tables of Europeans, curries made from prawns and lobsters are the triumphs of the Ceylon cuisine.
One tousand prawns, all with two hondred men inside him, and the leetle prawns will come to land at your house, Sharley.
But to speak of any Carne coming nigh us with French plottings, and of prawns landing here at Springhaven--'tis as likely as I should drop French money into the till of this baccy-box.
Well, I said I had caught a good many in my time; but he laughed and said, 'Prawns will catch you this time.
We had an excellent supper of native oysters, freshwater prawns and eels, fish, chicken, and many other native dishes.
The Negritos shot several fish and large prawns with a special kind of long pointed arrow; these we ate with our rice by the river side before returning.
Red pepper is bruised in a mortar and then made into a paste with shrimps or prawns in a condition politely described as "high.
Prawns are plentiful, and they are caught in nets of very small mesh.
In this way thousands of prawns and small fish are easily caught.
Pound the shells of the prawns in a mortar with a little butter, to form a smooth paste.
Bisque of Prawns or Shrimps Boil three dozenprawns twenty minutes in salted water to cover them.
Take the prawns out of the boiling water and add to it the fried mixture with salt, pepper, a bunch of sweet herbs and one-half the prawns added again.
Here there reigned, during the forty years of the loss of Jerusalem, an almost unbroken peace.
Just because we got in a muddle twice over in catching prawns and crabs you think we're always going to be in a mess.
I went to his help, and we worked so well that no less than six more prawns came down to our pool, and were scooped out; and at last the upper one was completely emptied, but it was nearly an hour's work.
Prawns are not half so easy to catch as they used to be.
It was not so handy as our old ones, for two of us had to carry it; but as I said it would hold plenty, and we could lay a bit of old net over the prawns to keep them from flicking themselves out.
Then Bob and Bigley softly thrust in their nets, and it became my duty to poke about among the sea-weed and under the ledges where we had seen the prawns take shelter.
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