31 examples of pilchard in sentences

No!' 'Or packed together to sleep, like pilchards in a barrel?' 'But, my good fellow, do you mean that the labourers here are in that state?'

Let it suffice that my first case was that of the now notorious Pilchard Street Diamond Robbery, my success in which brought me business from a well known firm in Hatton Gardens.

The Pilchard is one of them; the Sardine is merely a young Pilchard.

The Pilchard is one of them; the Sardine is merely a young Pilchard.

Countless myriads of Pilchards visit the Cornish coast; strangely enough, they frequent only this corner of our seas.

This Shark comes to seek the same prey as the fishermanthe shoals of Mackerel and Pilchard (a cousin of the Herring).

[Illustration: THE ELECTRIC RAY] If the Shark comes across a mass of Mackerel or Pilchards in a net, he looks on them as a fine feast.

This savage hunter comes after the Herrings, Pilchards and Sprats.

A term of contempt like "pilchard" and "poor John."

A most cleanly, bright-coloured, foreign-looking street, is that long straggling one which runs up the hill towards Penalva Court: only remark, that this cleanliness is gained by making the gutter in the middle street the common sewer of the town, and tread clear of cabbage-leaves, pilchard bones, et id genus omne.

The fare of the Portuguese peasantry is meagre in the extreme, although, they are, in fact, surrounded with the abundant luxuries of nature; a piece of black bread and a pickled pilchard, or head of garlic, is their usual subsistence, but a salted cod is a feast.

For without this small but sapid fishwhatever he may really be, whether denizen of the Sardinian sea, immature Cornish pilchard, or mere plebeian sprat well oilednumbers of our fellow-men and fellow-women, with all the will in the world, might never raise a laugh.

Mr. Yarrell has recently shown that the sprat is not the young of the herring and pilchard, as has been generally supposed.

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.

"The coast is plentifully stored with round fish, pilchard, herring, mackerel, and cod"Id., ib., w. Herring.

Many of the older class looked upon wrecking as legitimate a trade as fishing for herrings or pilchards; while perhaps nearly all from the force of habit and long-practised example, regarded a wreck as a booty sent them by the elements; the scattered contents of which it was no more crime to take than it would be to pick up any other thing cast by accident on the beach.

He afterwards considered how the Death of this great Man would affect our Pilchards, and by several other Remarks infused a general Joy into his whole Audience.

Perceiving that this island, which they believed to be Bohio, was very large, that the land and trees resembled Spain, and that in fishing they caught several fishes much like those in Spain, as soles, salmon, pilchards, crabs and the like, on Sunday the ninth of December the admiral gave it the name of Espannola, or little Spain, or as it is called in English Hispaniola.

He next came to the island called Borriquen by the Indians, but which he named St John the Baptist, in a bay on the west side of which the fleet came to anchor, where they caught several sorts of fish, as skate, olaves, pilchards, and shads.

E. It is probable that the fish, here called pilchards were of one of the kinds of flying fish, which is of the same genus with the herring and pilchard.

These people in the first place caught some fishes called reves, the largest of which are about the size of a pilchard, and have a certain roughness on their belly, by which they cling with such force to any thing they have a mind to, that they may be sooner torn in pieces than forced to quit their hold.

DIGBY, a seaport on the Bay of Fundy, Nova Scotia; noted for the curing of pilchards, called from it digbies.

FALMOUTH (13), a seaport on the Cornish coast, on the estuary of the Fal, 18 m. NE. of the Lizard; its harbour, one of the finest in England, is defended E. and W. by St. Mawes Castle and Pendennis Castle; pilchard fishing is actively engaged in, and there are exports of tin and copper.

It has a fine harbour and docks, and is the centre of the mackerel and pilchard fishing industries.

ST. IVES, 1, a town in Cornwall, 8 m. N. of Penzance, the inhabitants of which are chiefly engaged in the pilchard fisheries.

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