"I'll hook you on a line, you impertinent young sprat!". From Wordnik.com. [A Girl Possessed]
What'd I tell you about hooking up with some dell, sprat?. From Wordnik.com. [Calde of the Long Sun]
In this case we shall be throwing a sprat to catch a whale!. From Wordnik.com. [Nan Sherwood at Pine Camp or, the Old Lumberman's Secret] Reference
He could barely keep in step with Jesse, when he was a sprat. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-08-01] Reference
The writer states that the sprat and herring were used in Lent. From Wordnik.com. [Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine] Reference
It was just a rock, and the other sprat threw it with his sling. From Wordnik.com. [Nightside The Long Sun]
And yet it was not always easy for the sprat to catch the whale. From Wordnik.com. [The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore] Reference
And Sherill wouldn't have cared as much as a sprat what we played. From Wordnik.com. [A Traitor to Memory]
"We will throw a sprat to catch a herring," quoted Momsey cheerfully. From Wordnik.com. [Nan Sherwood at Pine Camp or, the Old Lumberman's Secret] Reference
They know the price of everything from a licker-fish to a salt sprat. From Wordnik.com. [Fortune's Favorites]
"He used a sprat to catch a mackerel, Your Excellency," said Hornblower. From Wordnik.com. [Hornblower In The West Indies]
Even when they can't afford the salt sprat, they'll ask its cost in the market. From Wordnik.com. [Fortune's Favorites]
Good luck and a long, smooth driveway to you and your little sprat this morning. From Wordnik.com. [Firedoglake » Late Nite FDL: I’m Just Wild About Harry] Reference
Note the sprat demonstrating the odd gate that makes it hard to track these animals. From Wordnik.com. [This Week's Pattern Story (and sale) - A Dress A Day] Reference
I loved his robot books and Lucky Starr novels when I was a sprat but as an adult, eh. From Wordnik.com. [I Really Shouldn't Do This: The Guardian's Science Fiction And Fantasy Novel List] Reference
Landings from the industrial fishery consist mainly of sandeels, Norway pout and sprat. From Wordnik.com. [North Sea large marine ecosystem] Reference
I started when I was seven or eight, just a dirty little sprat going up to men in the market. From Wordnik.com. [Calde of the Long Sun]
Of ordinary fishes the most prolific is the sprat; of cartilaginous fishes, the fishing-frog. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Animals] Reference
She fixed Claribel with a beady eye; having set a sprat to catch a mackerel, she was hopeful of a good catch. From Wordnik.com. [The Course Of True Love]
Your mother since she was a sprat, and when your dad-to-be married her, I was delighted at what a catch she'd made. From Wordnik.com. [The Stars Are Also Fire]
I wasn't at all sure that I did mean it; at the moment I hadn't enough go left in me to pull a sprat off a gridiron. From Wordnik.com. [Marazan]
Notes: I was desperately ill and searching for Fraser h/c, when zabira, snarkyducky, grey853 and sprat came to my rescue. From Wordnik.com. [New F/K Story: Reliance (R)] Reference
Promises out of office are often the whale which only produces the sprat of legislation when the time of fulfilment arrives. From Wordnik.com. [The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent] Reference
But ever since I was a sprat I have been given this vague half-formed yet tremendously potent feeling that rock music meant something. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-06-14] Reference
There is Princess Gloriana amid sea demigods with conch-shell trumpets and mer-people and fishes of every size from sprat to leviathan. From Wordnik.com. [Nutrition] Reference
All varieties from sprat to shark abound in local waters. From Wordnik.com. [tabsir.net] Reference
Shiny Wall; so he bolted his sprat head foremost, and said. From Wordnik.com. [The Water-Babies] Reference
"Fished for a sprat and caught a whale -- or is it t'other way round?". From Wordnik.com. [Charles Rex] Reference
"Hallo, sprat!" he said, with some abruptness, "where do you spring from?". From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Age] Reference
A Brit is a baby sprat and not an inhabitant of an Atlantic island inhabited by Britons. From Wordnik.com. [The Coffee House | Politics and News Discussion Forum] Reference
Stow-boating is really sprat catching, and no one can exactly explain the meaning of the term. From Wordnik.com. [A Chapter of Adventures] Reference
"Silly Mansoul swallowed it without chewing, as if it had been a sprat in the mouth of a whale.". From Wordnik.com. [Moby Dick, or, the whale] Reference
Do what he would -- however he tried with bait and angle -- there was never a sprat on his hook. From Wordnik.com. [Popular Tales from the Norse] Reference
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