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Example sentences for "tench"

Lexicographically close words:
tenas; tenauntes; tenaunts; tenax; tence; tend; tendance; tendances; tendant; tended
  1. The experimental stage found an enthusiastic worker in the person of Tench Coxe, known often as the "Father of American Industries," whose interest in the beginning was philanthropic rather than commercial.

  2. Rub it through a sieve, pour it over the tench with the oysters, which must be previously scalded in their own liquor, squeeze in the lemon-juice, and serve.

  3. Tench may be boiled the same way, and served with the same sauces.

  4. Clean and bone the tench, skin and bone the eels, and cut them into pieces 2 inches long, and leave the sides of the tench whole.

  5. Tench are common, but are not often caught with a rod and line.

  6. I found a bow net set among the weeds, and there were three large tench in it.

  7. The tench is one of our most useful fresh-water fishes, for the ease with which it may be preserved, and the goodness of its flesh.

  8. Illustration] The best baits for tench are bread paste and red worms, but he usually prefers the latter.

  9. Well, to me they seemed as if so many young eels had grown ashamed of being so long and thin, and they had been feeding themselves up and squeezing themselves short, so as to look as like tench as possible.

  10. The perch and grayling spawn in the end of April or the beginning of May; the tench and roach about the middle of June; the common trout and powan in October and November.

  11. The eggs of the common trout also require to be deposited in running fresh water; while other fresh water fishes, such as the tench and carp, are reared most successfully in still, reedy ponds.

  12. He would not be aboard--as Sam Tench had made clear, there was much to do, and Ben Cory the one to do it.

  13. Then neither Sam Tench nor Reuben was quick enough to catch the old man, who fell like a broken spar and struck his head against the doorframe, and for more than a month thereafter could not speak at all.

  14. The tench had been caught that morning off the back doorstep, which was an ancient and mossy slab of limestone let into the coping of the river wall.

  15. And that was how Kid Glenn and Sticky Smith, American muleteers on duty at Saint Lesse, came to lunch on freshly caught tench at the Inn of the White Doe.

  16. My father caught a tench in the Lesse this morning.

  17. Tench mentions the sexual licence of unmarried girls among the Port Jackson tribes.

  18. Speaking of the Port Jackson tribes, Tench says that they derive their principal food supply from fishing.

  19. Only in the statements of Collins, Tench and Phillips is fishing mentioned as a common occupation of men and women.

  20. Tench was in very early times at the settlement, but being a military man and making only a short stay, he hardly had very good opportunities of observing the natives.

  21. We read of a similar freedom in the Dieri tribe, as also in the statements of Tench and Macgillivray.

  22. An account of the brutality of a woman's treatment is given by Tench (referring to the Port Jackson blacks).

  23. There Franklin and Shippen and Lawrence and Maddox might daily be seen, and there Benjamin Chew and Tench Francis and John Ross might daily be heard.

  24. The tench is the largest of the European species, and its virtues with those of its more or less insignificant allies are set forth in the pages of Izaak Walton.

  25. TENCH in a frightened manner speaks into the hall.

  26. TENCH makes two attempts to speak; but meeting his Chairman's gaze he drops his eyes, and, turning dismally, he too goes out.

  27. TENCH nervously rings the bell and stands by the fire.

  28. TENCH suddenly makes a demonstration with the minute-book.

  29. Re-enter TENCH with papers; he glances at them, then plucking up courage.

  30. Tench feed in the dark: if you wish to take a big one wait till it is necessary to fix a piece of white paper on the float.

  31. The distant sculls have ceased to work in the rowlocks--those in the punt are listening to the echoes; most likely they have been fishing for tench in the deep holes under the black shadow of the aspens.

  32. On the following Saturday it was shown at Trappe, and it was afterwards used on the farm of Mr. Tench Tilghman, where 180 acres of wheat, oats and barley were cut with it.

  33. It's full of great carp and tench and eels big as boa-constrictors.

  34. Here, I say, could we catch some tench in the mill-pond to-day?

  35. For a comprehensive though prejudiced review of British policy during this period see Tench Coxe: Examination of the Conduct of Great Britain Respecting Neutrals.

  36. The Virginia congressional elections have astonished every one," he informs Tench Coxe.

  37. Colonel Tilghman's Diary of the Siege of Yorktown in Appendix to Memoir of Tench Tilghman; Journal of the Siege of Yorktown, by Col.

  38. Du Ponceau, who was one of the bar present, told this to Tench Coxe, who told me in presence of H.

  39. It is said that the tench is possessed of such healing properties among the finny tribes, that even the voracious pike spares it on this account.

  40. Carp is the chief stock; but tench and perch, eels and pike are raised.

  41. Yet he believed that war should be avoided and wrote to that effect to Tench Coxe: We are alarmed here with the apprehension of war; and sincerely anxious that it may be avoided; but not at the expense either of our faith or honour.


  42. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tench" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.