In each there was a loud call for fresh shad and stewed oysters, or a comparatively feeble call for fresh shad and stewed oysters, under the same biennial conditions.
In impoundments of this region shad often become extremely abundant.
In smaller streams such as the Elk and Caney rivers adult gizzard shad seemed scarce.
As it is, Shad is very much like a dog following his master.
In a fight, Shad breaks a collar-bone for Ranny; later he saves him from drowning.
Tho weren the cruel clariouns ful hust and ful stille, ne blood y-shad by egre hate ne hadde nat deyed yit armures.
But as for Reube, he was in such a state of exalted excitement that he could think of nothing but shad and the Dido.
During successive summer holidays she carried Reube and Will and Ted on many a profitable and merry trip, but never again did she experience one so eventful as that with which she began her career as a Tantramar shad boat.
I’m not talking of mother, but of the Dido, and I say there’s not a trimmer craft will go shad fishing from Westcock this season.
Every creek mouth formed a little haven, clustered about with net reels, and crowded with the boats of the shad fishers.
Reube was very indignant at the thought that Gandy might attack his shad net, and vowed, if he caught him at it, to clap him in jail.
Imagine the stately queen of Carthage going out shad fishing!
REUBE and Will did not go shad fishing the next night, after all.
About the rickety old wharf stood four or five high reels, skeletons of light gray wood wound with the dark-stained folds of the shad nets.
The five hours’ sail brought our young shad fishers past Cape Chignecto, and into wider waters.
Wherever shad are used, the children will be familiar with the shad roe; and in the South mullet roes are universally used.
Other white flowers of spring are the shad bush that blooms "when the shad run.
The wonderful success which has followed the planting ofshad and striped bass fry in the waters of the Pacific coast is well known.
Shad that were once plenty have entirely disappeared.
I very much wish we could procure some young shad for the Saint Croix; this fish was once very abundant, and perhaps would be again if introduced.
Sometimes, on cool, damp spring evenings, the scent of the orchards came down to them from the hills above, but the smell of shad was much stronger and nearer.
It was the month of May--the season of fresh shad and apple-blossoms on the Hudson River.
SHAD ROE Parboil the roe in salted water ten minutes.
There is some nicely-cooked shad for the fish course; but if that does not suit Mr. Plaisted's fancy, there is sufficient besides.
As she passed the fish market her attention was attracted by some very fine shad displayed for sale, and they immediately suggested a further means of accomplishing her revenge, so she ordered a supply.
I thought it strange that she ordered shadfor dinner," said Mrs. Sherwood.
It is not often we get such good shad in an inland town.
The salmon come into fresh water to spawn--just like shad and a number of other species of fish--and when you kill a salmon just about to ascend the river, you destroy at the same time the thousands of eggs she bears.
This is the best way of cooking shad when in perfection, just out of the river; and it is much in use at fishing party dinners.
For instance, if brought fresh from market on Saturday morning, it may be broiled for breakfast on Sunday, and will seem like a fresh shad just from the water.
This mode of cooking a shad will be found superior to all others; and is so generally liked, that two at least will be required, one at each end of the table.
It is much enjoyed by parties who have dinners on the banks of the river, and bespeak of the fishermen shad just out of the water.
Then put the shad on a previously heated gridiron, over hot coals, and broil it well.
BAKED SHAD Bake a shad in a buttered baking-pan, adding enough boiling water to keep from burning.
BONED FRIED SHAD Remove the head and tail, then take out the back and side bones.
SHAD ROE WITH BROWN SAUCE Soak a shad roe in water for half an hour, scald, drain, cool, and cut in slices.
FRIED SHAD ROE Parboil the roe for ten minutes in salted and acidulated water.
SHAD ROE SALAD--III Cook the roe with a slice of onion in salted, acidulated water for twenty minutes.
SHAD ROE SALAD--II Prepare the roe as above and mix with sliced cucumbers.
Cold, boiled shad roe and cucumbers, finely minced, and mixed with French dressing or mayonnaise.
SHAD ROE SALAD Boil the roe, chill, slice, and add finely cut celery and boiled beet dice.
They could hear a horse champing in the pasture; the wail of an Italian infant came to them thinly across the green; behind them sounded mellow the tin horn of the shad vendor.
There was a branch of the Catawbas on the Potomac, in which river are to be found the best shad in the world.
The missionaries who settled among this tribe taught them that it would be a good investment in their soul-assurance to catch large quantities of the shad for them, the missionaries.
They also went to the falls of the rivers and caught the shad and salmon as they were ascending the river to spawn.
Two popular fish today, the shad and the salmon, were so common that the colonists were really ashamed to be seen eating them in their homes.
Serve the shad upon a hot dish, with a boat of drawn butter mingled with chopped eggs and parsley, or egg-sauce.
Cleanse the roes thoroughly, and having sprinkled both shad and eggs with salt, wrap in separate cloths and put into a fish-kettle, side by side.
In broiling shador other fresh fish you should dust them with corn meal before you put them down.
Fresh shad is better to be sprinkled with salt, an hour before it is put to broil; put a plate over the top to keep the heat in.
Make a stuffing of bread, butter, salt, pepper and parsley; fill a large shad with this, and bake it in a stove or oven.
A fat shad is very nice boiled, although rock and bass are preferred generally; when done, take it up on a fish dish, and cover it with egg sauce or drawn butter and parsley.
He had been teaching us how to roast shad under the ashes of our camp-fire one day when a chance remark put him in a reminiscent mood.
Besides, its rising and ebbing tides, its big steamers and busy tugs, its shad and herring, were all strange to him; his boyhood home had known nothing of these things.
Freshmen might argue but even the Tennessee Shad wasted no time in producing the coin.
The Shad had a certain adroit and devious imagination, but the practical mind was Macnooder.
His name was Shadrach Farnum, but Shad suited him to perfection.
She found immediate diversion in appearing before him suddenly in her most abrupt manner and asking his opinion anxiously on something, whereupon Shadwould blush intensely to the roots of his taffy colored hair, and splash paste blindly.
I think we'll getShad to build us window seats all the way around, stain the floor, and make a sort of sun parlor out of it.
SHAD ROE Shad roe should be carefully taken from the fish, allowed to stand in cold water, to which a pinch of salt has been added, for a few minutes, then dropped in boiling water, cooked a short time and drained.
Split a nicely-cleaned shaddown the back, place skin side down, on hot plank, brush with butter and sprinkle lightly with pepper and salt.
Should an oak plank not be obtainable, the shad may be placed in a large roasting pan and baked in oven.
Cut the shad into sizable pieces after being washed in cold water and dried on a cloth to take up all the moisture.
Shad roe should be parboiled first and then dredged with flour on both sides and fried in drippings or a little butter.
Shad is particularly fine, prepared in this manner (when not baked).
The shad should be served on the plank, although not a very sightly object, but it is the proper way to serve it.
Put plank containing shad on the upper grating of a hot oven of coal range and bake about 45 minutes.
Or the shad roe may be parboiled, then broken in small pieces, mixed with a couple of lightly beaten eggs and scrambled in a fry-pan, containing a couple of tablespoonfuls of butter and sweet drippings.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shad" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
