Usage examples (30)

• We understood the despair of Parisian gourmets and cooks, and we confirmed the verdict, provisionally announced at breakfast, that the sterlet is the king of all fish.
• Our sterlet was nearly two feet long, and may have cost twenty or thirty dollars.
• This day investigation dropped; reconsidered verdict states poisoning to have been by sterlet caviar.
• The annual produce of these Astrakhan fisheries -- sturgeon, sterlet, salmon, pike, shad, etc. -- amounts to 10,000,000 puds of fish (the pud thirty-six English pound...