673 examples of herring in sentences

Cut some pickled herring into pieces and mix with flaked lax, 2 peeled apples and 2 boiled potatoes.

17.Berlin Herring Salad.

Soak the herring over night; remove the milch and mash fine.

Cut off the head, skin and bone; chop the herring; add chopped apples, pickles, potatoes, olives and capers.

As dead as a herring.

"Perhaps you will be angry now, and when you steal forth disguised, in your next intelligence thunder forth threatenings against me, and be as satirical in your language as ever was your predecessor Nash, who compiled a learned treatise in the praise of a red herring.

I keep them under with red herring and poor John all the year long.

It is not overcrowded by the addition of roast goose and plum-pudding; it is not harmed by the addition of herring and potatoes.

On the establishment of the British Herring Fishery, in 1750, he took a very considerable part, and became one of the Council; in which situation, on the 25th of October he delivered to the Prince of Wales the Charter of incorporation in a speech which was printed in the public journals.

Skate, cod, and turbot, and herring we have tasted ofabundance of mussels (clams) the best we ever saw; and crabs and lobsters in their time, infinite.

"Archbishop Herring's Letters, 12mo.

Begin then where you will, go backward or forward, choose out of the whole pack, wink and choose, you shall find them all alike, "never a barrel better herring.

Here again Mrs. Haywood's red herring crossed the trail of Defoe, for oddly enough the sheets thus accurately characterized were transcribed word for word from Eliza's second novel, "The British Recluse."

They are generally of the size and colour of a herring; their side fins, however, are longer and broader, and they have the power of spreading and closing them like little wings.

" Mr. J. Scrivener, Herring Bay,

David heard the terms rolling and whipping, and felling and overcasting and hemstitching and herring-boning which were an unknown tongue to him.

From this point one may penetrate inland by bridle-ways, in two miles, to the village of Chaldon Herring, situated in a pleasant combe to the North of Chaldon Down.

Chickerell, the nearest of them to Weymouth, has a manufactory of stoneware and a golf-course, so that it is not so quiet and remote as Fleet, Langton Herring and the rest, which depend almost entirely on the harvest of the sea for a livelihood.

Marston is much older than the generality of Somerset churches and has the scanty remnants of "herring-bone" work in the outside wall of the chancel.

The butcher calls every morning, and so does the baker with excellent bread; twice a week clams call at thirty cents the hundred; we get milk, butter, and eggs without much trouble; and ice and various vegetables without any, as Mrs. Bull sends them to us every day, with sprinklings of fruit, pitchers of cream, herring and whatever is going.

In taking fish out of his net by night, he felt it to be neither a pilchard nor a herring, and supposed it something rare.

MEDARY, MARGARET P. Topgallant, a herring gull, by Marjorie Medary.

FOLKESTONE (24), a seaport and watering-place on the coast of Kent, 7 m. SW. of Dover; has a fine harbour and esplanade; is much engaged in the herring and mackerel fisheries, and is steam-packet station for Boulogne; a fine railway viaduct spans the valley in which the old town lies.

PETERHEAD (12), a seaport on the E. coast of Aberdeenshire, 30 m. NE. of Aberdeen; built irregularly of reddish granite; has a free library and museum, and is the seat of a convict prison; the chief industry is herring-fishing; there are two harbours, and a third, a great harbour of refuge, is in course of construction.

The official, who was accustomed to herring and vodka, and who had never before drunk chocolate, felt sick after the chocolate.

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