All that is wanted is that the Company shall be permitted to keep their machinery oiled, bore for coal, and fill up spare time by fishing for whitebait with line.
His low voice, his deferential manner, his pained surprise at suggestion of wanting to do anything else but catch those whitebait with a line, take one's breath away.
At one of the central tables a very stumpy little priest sat in complete solitude, and applied himself to a pile of whitebait with the gravest sort of enjoyment.
Father Brown seemed to cogitate; he lifted a little whitebait on his fork.
Within, the winding walks dimly echoed whispering words; the lawn was studded with dazzling groups; on the terrace by the river a dainty multitude beheld those celebrated waters which furnish flounders to Richmond and whitebait to Blackwall.
Would that life consisted only of such incidents, of barouches and whitebait banquets!
Meanwhile Dagenham Breach had become associated with an institution still dear to the hearts of politicians--the annual ministerial whitebait dinner--for it was in a cottage on its banks belonging to Sir John Preston, M.
A whitebait dinner, what would not one suffer of human contiguity for it, even though it could be only a whitebait lunch, owing to the early hour?
He said he could send out and get us some whitebait if we could wait twenty minutes, but they never had any call for it now, and they did not keep it.
The elderly waiter of the forlorn out-dated hotel to which we went for ourwhitebait lunch at Greenwich was as much of his invention as if he had created him from the dust of the place, and breathed his elderly-waiter-soul into him.
Whitebait became so plentiful that during the whole of the winter and spring the results were obvious, not only to naturalists, but on the London market.
In 1893 the whitebait fishermen and shrimp-boats were busy ten miles higher than they had been seen at work for many years.
Whitebait shoals swarmed in the Lower Thames and the Medway, and became a cheap luxury even in February and March.
The table continued to spin for a moment, with a deep thrilling organ sound, and when it stopped, the whitebait were found to have assembled opposite to Richard's place.
Just as the hostess, with poised fork and spoon, was about to distribute the whitebait, the round table began to spin, and the whitebait were whisked away from her.
There were other ways by which money was to be obtained during the summer season, which were from the company who used to come down to the whitebait parties at the Ship and other taverns.
It was just at that period that the whitebait parties became so much in vogue, and Greenwich was considered a pleasant retreat for a few months by many of the fashionable world.
The whitebait is one of the most delicious things in our winter markets; it is a very tiny fish of delicate flavour, and while it is rather expensive at first thought, it is not so in reality, for it is so light that a pound goes a long way.
I had always supposed that whitebait was a specialty of the Thames.
Place the whitebait between the folds of the napkin, and serve immediately.
It was long supposed that the Whitebait was the fry of the shad, but it is now proved to be a distinct species.
I think that when it was borne in upon Miss Pondar's soul that we was accustomed to having whitebait as a regular thing she made up her mind we was all right, and that nothing but the Established Church would do for us.
Above the bridge the strait widens, and here, amid the swift-flowing currents, the famous whitebait are caught for the London epicures.
Here the ministry at the close of the session has its annual whitebait dinner.
After the Whitebait plain, Whitebait devilled made us to eat the more, and drink too, which we did in Champagne and Hock, pledging each other with great Mirth.
Appetite returned, and I did fall to upon it, and drink iced Punch, and then at the Whitebait again.
A smoking dinner was waiting them, of whitebait with red pepper, and a yellow juice so sour that Nick's mouth drew up in a knot; but it was very good.
At least there are baby herrings and baby pilchards, and these are called whitebait because they are eaten by the mackerel and because they look white when they are swimming upside down.
You fondly think that the whitebait is a special kind of fish, that there are father whitebaits and mother whitebaits and baby whitebaits.
Walter and Rupert and Foch had jolly soft roes, a fact which is recorded in a cynical little poem by the precocious Foch, believed to be the only literary work of a whitebait now extant.
Yes, you can give a guinea a plate for whitebait for yourself.
A guinea for whitebait for yourself, when you grudge a pint of shrimps for your poor family.
As the Sphinx's silver fork rustled among the withered silver upon her plate, she turned to me and said: 'Have you ever thought what beautiful little things these whitebait are?
Its spirit sang just above our heads as she ate, and the air was thick with the grey ghosts of all the whitebait she had eaten that night.
See how they swim like whitebait in the fishpools of your eyes!
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