"Anchovy" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... is full of small bones, and the flesh soft and unsavoury. The sturgeon has been already mentioned, but they are unfortunately too rare; seldom more than five or six are captured in a season; they weigh from one hundred to five hundred pounds. A beautiful small fish of the size of the anchovy, and shaped like a salmon, is found in a river that falls into Stuart's Lake; it is said they pass the winter in the lake, and ascend their favourite stream in the month of June, where they deposit their spawn. They have the silvery scales of the larger ...
— Service in the Hudson's Bay Territory • John M'lean
... oz. of flour. 1 gills of stock. wineglass of port. A tiny piece of carrot, turnip, and onion. teaspoonful of anchovy sauce. teaspoonful of Harvey's sauce. ...
— The Skilful Cook - A Practical Manual of Modern Experience • Mary Harrison
... on a comfortable smoking-jacket. Gaehler brought his tea almost immediately, and with it a plate of anchovy sandwiches. ...
— 'Jena' or 'Sedan'? • Franz Beyerlein
... venison, just fresh from the plains; Our Burke shall be tongue, with a garnish of brains. To make out the dinner, full certain I am, That Rich is anchovy, ...
— The Two Paths • John Ruskin
... sole, cod, eel, carp, char, skate, tench, trout, brill, bream, pike, and many others, plain monosyllables: salmon, dory, turbot, gudgeon, lobster, whitebait, grayling, haddock, mullet, herring, oyster, sturgeon, flounder, turtle, plain dissyllables: only two trisyllables worth naming, anchovy and mackerel; unless any one should be disposed to stand up for halibut, which, for ...
— Gryll Grange • Thomas Love Peacock
... the parlour. Her first proceeding there was to unlock a tall press, bring out several bottles, and pour some of the contents of each into my mouth. I think they must have been taken out at random, for I am sure I tasted aniseed water, anchovy sauce, and salad dressing. When she had administered these restoratives, as I was still quite hysterical, and unable to control my sobs, she put me on the sofa, with a shawl under my head, and the handkerchief from her own head under my feet, ...
— David Copperfield • Charles Dickens
... onion we stew, And anchovy essence two spoonfuls we add; With butter, horse-radish, and lemons a few; Mushrooms, too, in ketchup is not very bad; And pickle of walnuts with onions chopped fine, To which there is ...
— Nothing to Eat • Horatio Alger [supposed] |
