In the sea the sturgeon feeds on herrings, mackerel, cod-fish, and other fishes of moderate size.
We are indebted to the Russian naturalist Pallas for the information we possess respecting the mode of taking the sturgeon in the Volga and other Asiatic rivers.
In the sturgeon the gill-openings are a single, very wide orifice, with an operculum, but without radiating membrane.
The enormous consumption of caviare in Russia leads to a deadly pursuit of the common sturgeon in all the great European rivers, and this species is in a fair way of disappearing altogether.
Illustration] Shortly after this Hiawatha set out in his canoe to catch the sturgeon Nahma, king of fishes.
The finest kinds of isinglass are obtained from various species of the genus Acipenser, or sturgeon, that from the great sturgeon being perhaps the most esteemed.
The common sturgeon is the Acipenser sturio (Linn.
Yea, sometimes we had half a dozen sturgeon at once, which the savages brought us, part of which we bought, and allowed them to sell the remainder publicly and to barter it for bread, of which our men had abundance.
The party thus finally made up, Champlain's line of advance first took him to Sturgeon Lake.
Sturgeon may be plain-boiled, and served with Dutch sauce.
Some kinds, as the rays, have no ribs; whilst others, as the sturgeon and eel, have very short ones.
The males have the milt and the females the roe; but some individuals, as the sturgeon and the cod tribes, are said to contain both.
Round about him spun the landscape, Sky and forest reeled together, And his strong heart leaped within him, 220 As the sturgeon leaps and struggles In a net to break its meshes.
A heavy thunderstorm came on, and continued during the time we wended our way through the narrow, stony creek which connects Sturgeon Lake with the river Neepigon.
We walked till sun down, and then camped near the shore of Black Sturgeon Lake.
We reached it at five minutes to four, the portage occupied fifty minutes, and soon we were launched once more on Sturgeon Lake.
The fluid became so rare finally, that thesturgeon was unable to go farther, kept down by his superior gravity.
Yet the Astrakan fishermen still throw the greater number of the sturgeon they catch back into the water.
Sturgeon was a Lancashire man, born at Wittington in that county in 1783.
The Sturgeon is a Fish commonly found in the Northern Seas; but now and then, we find them in our great Rivers; the Thames, the Severn and the Tyne.
Angling with bait forsturgeon is strictly forbidden.
We have seen great quantities of sturgeon spawn collected for conversion into "caviare.
Great numbers of turbot and small sturgeon are speared in this manner by the Tartars inhabiting the Russian shores of the Black Sea.
Large takes of salmon, sturgeon and herring rewarded our exertions, and our storeroom again assumed a well-stocked appearance.
At length Fritz, after harpooning a great sturgeon full eight feet long, could not get the fish ashore; we all went to his assistance, but our united efforts were unavailing.
Big lease-holding companies put steamers on the various lake expansions on the Nelson, so that they reached down to within a few miles of Split lake, and marketed sturgeon in that way.
In one night’s fishing the Indians caught so many sturgeon that they had enough to carry them for one hundred and fifty miles to the Hudson’s Bay Company’s post.
Sturgeon Lake (settlement) has a population of nine whites and two hundred and ninety half-breeds and Indians.
Those lakes are teeming with fish,—whitefish, sturgeon and trout.
At seven miles before joining the Attawapiskat, Boulder river falls into a lake three miles long, which the Indians callSturgeon lake, from the abundance of this fish to be found in it.
The Indians of ‘Cree Settlement’ on Sturgeon lake wintered their horses without any difficulty round the borders of a neighbouring lake, the shores of which were partly open.
We had no sturgeon net, but we saw quite a number jumping in Sipiwesk lake.
The river enters at the eastern end of this area, coming from Sturgeon lake by a short stretch of river half a mile in length, in which there are two rapids.
There are whitefish, trout, jackfish and somesturgeon in Torch and Saskatchewan rivers.
So it shall be enough if he will go down to the Hudson and seize a drop from the bow of mist that a sturgeon leaves when he makes his leap; and after, to kindle his darkened flame-wood lamp at a meteor spark.
As Anthony was lounging over the quarter of Peter Stuyvesant's galley one summer morning this nose caught a ray from the sun and reflected it hissing into the water, where it killed a sturgeonthat was rising beside the vessel.
The sturgeon made no reply, or if he did, it has not been reported; and Owasso, drawing him on shore, went up and told his wife to dress and cook it immediately.
Once he directed the sturgeon to rise near the surface of the water, so that he might, if possible, get a view of the magician.
The Manito advised Owasso to spear a large sturgeon which came alongside, and with its great glassy eye turned up, seemed to recognize the magician.
She was chartered to run from Sturgeon Bay, about nineteen miles beyond the narrows of Lake Simcoe, in connection with the mail or stage from Toronto, and the Beaver steamboat, plying on Lake Simcoe.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sturgeon" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
