Butchers' trays continue to be worn on the shoulders; and sprats may be found very generally upon the heads of the poissonnières-faggeuses de la Porte de Billing.
Sprats are sometimes sold for anchovies, but by washing them the imposition may be detected.
Herrings and sprats are to be baked in a brown pan, with vinegar and a little spice, and tied over with paper.
My dear child, only a fool will take sprats when he can have whitebait.
Get away you spratsand gudgeons," said he, good-humoredly.
I was supplied with bread by Demeter, wine by Dionysus, meat by Heracles, myrtle-blossoms by Aphrodite, and sprats by Posidon.
Mr. Goldham, the clerk of the market, accustomed as he is to the sudden invasions of the costermongers, informs us that the scene on board the smacks laden with sprats is really frightful.
These costermongers absorb more than a third of the whole Billingsgate supply; of sprats and fresh herrings they take fully two-thirds.
All Saints' Day expects or lays itself out for pork and souse, sprats and smelts for the household.
That sprats are young herrings, is evident by their anatomy, in which there is no perceptible difference.
But these are food of Hecate, Which he is speaking of, just sprats and mullets.
Nothing is more common than to hear it asserted that sprats are only immature herring.
The sprats count also, however, and every week now telegrams were reaching England from Lord Kitchener which showed that from three to five hundred more burghers had fallen into our hands.
But again the two big fish, Viljoen and Botha, had slipped away, and the usual collection of sprats was left in the net.
Herrings, sprats or plaice, or cockles for delight.
Sprats should be cooked very fresh, which can be ascertained by their bright and sparkling eyes.
Dried sprats should be put into a basin, and boiling water poured over them; they may then be skinned and served, and this will be found a much better way than boiling them.
When he fixed this anecdote upon Carey Street, the old Chancellor used to represent himself as buying the spratsin Clare Market instead of Fleet Market.
Many a time have I run down from Cursitor Street to Fleet Market and bought sixpenn'orth of sprats for our supper.
Bruise a pennyworth of cochineal; put it into the vinegar, and pour it over the sprats with some bay-leaves.
Wipe your sprats with a clean cloth; rub them with pepper and salt, and lay them in a pan.
But if that these men will needs use their Stale-boats and nets, let them go where the good sprats be.
Baby Herrings and baby Sprats are caught in great quantity, and sold under the name of "Whitebait.
Very often you may see young Pipe-fish among Sprats and "Whitebait" in the fishmonger's shop.
By means of this contrivance the yield of sprats is so great that there is often some little difficulty in disposing of the catch.
Thus, at the mouth of the Thames, thousands of tons of sprats are caught every winter by means of the large bag net, known as the stow net.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sprats" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
