"Carp" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Perhaps I ought rather to say that she had grasped the idea. I had succeeded in getting the knowledge, or, rather, the sensation, of the time into her, just as is the case with carp, who certainly have no clocks, when they are fed every day exactly ...
— Maupassant Original Short Stories (180), Complete • Guy de Maupassant
... as food by man. In the numerous caves of the Vezere, in those of Madeleine, Eyzies, and Bruniquel, excavations have brought to light the vertebrae and other bones of fishes, amongst which predominate chiefly those of the jack, the carp, the bream, the drub, the trout, and the tench — in a word, all the fish which still people our rivers and lakes. In the Lake Stations of Switzerland, fish of all kinds are no less abundant. At Gardeole, amongst the bones of mammals have been found the shells of mollusca, and remains ...
— Manners and Monuments of Prehistoric Peoples • The Marquis de Nadaillac
... been filled in, on two sides, though still remaining on the two others, and greatly contributing to the beauty of the place, as the water is living, and is made to serve the purposes of a fishpond. We had carp from it, for breakfast, ...
— Recollections of Europe • J. Fenimore Cooper
... carp, Thomas," she said, "Then harp and carp alang wi me; But it will be seven years and a day Till ye win back to ...
— Book of Old Ballads • Selected by Beverly Nichols
... he backed his tools and went, And wandered workless; for it seemed unwise To close with one who dared to criticize And carp on points of taste: To work where they were placed rude men ...
— Poems of the Past and the Present • Thomas Hardy
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