Another humorous idea was that the whitings always held their tails in their mouths.
This was so fresh, so good in kind, and so very cheap, that we supplied ourselves in great numbers, among which were very large soles at fourpence a pair, and whitings of almost a preposterous size at ninepence a score.
Have a care, though, lest the tails of those whitings sully yon brave crimson velvet, and see the fowls thrust not their talons into that Spanish lace.
There's nobut four whitings here, Mistress: shouldn't there be five?
XXI-152] “Whitings weigh no more when eaten than when hung to the girdle.
Fillets of haddocks or whitings are curried precisely the same.
Small fried whitings are frequently used for garnishing large boiled fish, such as turbot, cod, etc.
Large whitings may be filleted, rolled, and served as fried filleted soles (see Coloured Plato A).
Whitings caught in Cornwall are salted and dried, and in winter taken to the markets, and sold under the singular name of "Buckhorn.
Fillet two soles, beat each fillet flat; have ready a dozen oysters, blanched and chopped, which mix with four tablespoonfuls of forcemeat of whitings (No.
Large whitings may be filleted, rolled, and served as fried filleted soles.
Small fried whitings are frequently used for garnishing large boiled fish, such as turbot, cod, &c.
Hooks baited with muscles are sunk to the ground by leaden weights (the fishers are in a boat), and abundance of whitings are caught when the weather is favourable.
And, even in the pleasantest company, we cannot see anything very desirable in sitting in a boat, all the floor of which is covered by unhappy whitings and codlings flapping about in their last agony.
A quantity of whitings are generally salted and dried at Brixham.
On the coast of Devonshire dried whitingsare called "buckhorn," a name sufficiently expressive of their hardness and insipidity.
He then took up the two whitingswhich had been laid aside for him.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "whitings" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
