23 examples of chubs in sentences

It is a hard lot to be cooped up in the city, vegitating, as it were, in the shade, where there is no grass for their little feet to press, no fences to climb, or fields to ramble over, or brooks to wade, or running water on which to float chips, and wherein to watch the little chubs and shiners dancing and playing about, or fresh pure air to breathe, or birds to listen to.

The stream swarmed with chub and dace, a rare circumstance with the streams of this region.

MAY. FISH.Carp, chub, crabs, crayfish, dory, herrings, lobsters, mackerel, red and gray mullet, prawns, salmon, shad, smelts, soles, trout, turbot. MEAT.Beef, lamb, mutton, veal.

FISH.Brill, carp, chub, crayfish, crabs, dory, eels, flounders, grigs, herrings, lobsters, mullet, pike, prawns, salmon, shrimps, skate, soles, sturgeon, thornback, trout, turbot. MEAT.Beef, lamb, mutton, veal, buck venison.

Chub and Char may be cooked in the same manner as the above, as also Dace and Roach.

" [Illustration: THE CHUB.

The chaplain, for so he was called by everybody in and around the Hut, was, at the moment of which we are writing, busy in expounding to his friends certain nice distinctions that existed, or which he fancied to exist, between a tom-cod and a chub, the former of which fish he very erroneously conceived he held in his hand at that moment; the Rev. Mr. Woods being a much better angler than naturalist.

" "Is he chub or tom-cod, Woods?" asked the captain, throwing back on the other all he recollected of the previous discourse.

Ragmuff drifted one troutling and sundry chubby chub down to nip our hooks.

she cried with happy laugh, and landed a young chub.

The Chub, a common tenant of our ponds, is also a good subject for domestication.

The slough was full of two or three varieties of perch, or, as we called them, sun-fish; also a white fish called chub.

They repair, after the day's fishing, to some honest ale-house, with lavender in the window and a score of ballads stuck about the wall, where they sing catches"old-fashioned poetry but choicely good"composed by the author or his friends, drink barley wine, and eat their trout or chub.

(2) They could follow the old Buriat pack-road to Amdo, diverge by the narrow defile of Koko-Pir-Panjal to Tumbung, and thence make for Ghapchu-Srong and Chyang-Chub-Gyultshan.

We used to catch Hockney, Hads and Chubs.

That night at a spot which is now plow-land, I have no doubt, I listened to the frogs and prairie-chickens while I caught a mess of chubs, shiners, punkin-seeds and bullheads in a little pond not ten feet broad, within a hundred yards of my wagon, and then rolled them in flour and fried them in butter over my fire, wondering all the time about the woman I had seen coming eastward on the road ahead of me.

At one bad place Wetherill and Nas ta Bega, with Joe Lee, a Mormon cowboy with us, were helping one of the pack-horses named Chub.

On the steepest part of this slope Chub fell and began to slide.

Chub was snorting or screaming in terror.

I had a moment of horrified fascination, in which Chub turned clear over.

I got to him a little ahead of Wetherill and Nas ta Bega; and together we pulled Chub up out of danger.

and I got out our tackles and rigged up fly rods, and sallied forth to the lake with the same eagerness we had felt when we were boys going after chubs and sunfish.

To-night there was a bit of a sigh in them: his heart was tender: about the Christmases at home, when he and Nelly were little chubs together, and hung up their stockings regularly every Christmas eve.

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