The turbot is a goofy-looking flat fish found mainly in the North Atlantic. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-05-01] Reference
Whiting and turbot! crabs crawling all alive, alive, oh!. From Wordnik.com. [The Children's Book of London] Reference
'I began my dinner with turbot and ended with scollops.'. From Wordnik.com. [The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent] Reference
Thus the so-called catfish is not unlike the large turbot. From Wordnik.com. [The Bounty of the Chesapeake Fishing in Colonial Virginia] Reference
Cod's as good a fish as turbot any day, and don't you forget it. From Wordnik.com. [4.50 From Paddington]
Then came turbot and a silence, broken, low down, behind his chair. From Wordnik.com. [The Silver Spoon] Reference
It resembles a turbot in shape, but exceeds it in firmness and flavor. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon] Reference
(Roasted turbot, without a lot of butter and cream, is more his style.). From Wordnik.com. [FOOD: HOTHEAD HITS IT BIG] Reference
However a Sheep's Head is like a turbot -- for a turbot -- according to. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3 No 2, February 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
The soup, the turbot, the haunch of mutton, Count Ludwig remarked that the. From Wordnik.com. [A Legend of the Rhine] Reference
Dined on john dory, which I cannot think equal either to turbot or sole. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in the United States of America Commencing in the Year 1793, and Ending in 1797. With the Author's Journals of his Two Voyages Across the Atlantic.] Reference
The turbot and sole are indeed included in the “Treatise on Utensils” of. From Wordnik.com. [Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine] Reference
The sole, turbot, tunny, and mackerel are inferior to those caught in the ocean. From Wordnik.com. [The South of France—East Half] Reference
At dinner there was turbot and soup first, and boiled turkey afterwards of course. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Hoggarty Diamond] Reference
"Some turbot, potatoes, a dish of vegetables and a slice of your excellent game pie.". From Wordnik.com. [The Last Gamble]
Fresh dishes were brought in, and, amongst others, a fine turbot was placed on the table. From Wordnik.com. [Willis the Pilot] Reference
The Black Sea supplies turbot, mackerel, &c.; dolphins and flying fish may sometimes be seen. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference
Greenland turbot, Rheinhardtius hippoglossoides, of the eastern Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands. From Wordnik.com. [Fisheries and aquaculture in the North Pacific (Bering Sea)] Reference
The turbot and sablefish we catch are bottom dwellers that live in depths from 250 to 450 fathoms. From Wordnik.com. [Pirates In Tuxedos] Reference
The buttons (things of use in this garment) describe the figure and proportions of a large turbot. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, July 17, 1841] Reference
But then we are back to fish with turbot and chamomile and then an utter fantasy of six frozen flavors. From Wordnik.com. [Savoring a 25-Course Meal] Reference
It abounds on parts of the British coast, and is only less favoured for the table than the turbot itself. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"] Reference
The modern Roman, on his own side of Italy, has few turbot, but very good ones are still taken off Ancona, in the. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844] Reference
But we do not notice the turbot, sole, and many other varieties, which became familiar in the next generation or so. From Wordnik.com. [Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine] Reference
Rossini, in company with Pastafrollo, is now busily occupied in endeavoring to discover a new way of dressing turbot. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851] Reference
Yellowfin sole and Greenland turbot catches have been dropping, concurrently with declines in fur seals and seabirds. From Wordnik.com. [Impacts of global warming in Alaska] Reference
And out jumped a great turbot with his ugly eyes and mouth all awry, and flopped away along the bottom, knocking poor. From Wordnik.com. [The Water Babies] Reference
In recent decades, landings of turbot, migratory pelagics, and anadromous species, especially sturgeon, have declined. From Wordnik.com. [Black Sea large marine ecosystem] Reference
Hickle, who has a whelk-barrow in the Borough, brought me a whole turbot which had soaked through its newspaper wrapping. From Wordnik.com. [Leonie of the Jungle] Reference
The subject is limitless because we have the estuaries, the artificial production of mussels, of turbot, who knows what else. From Wordnik.com. [Castro Interviewed on Relations With Asturias] Reference
Also sometimes middling turbot, with whiting, codling and large flounders; the small fish, as above, they sell in the country. From Wordnik.com. [A Tour through the Eastern Counties of England, 1722] Reference
Daily the seal went out to fish, and after providing for his own wants, frequently brought in a salmon or turbot to his master. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 574, November 3, 1832 Title] Reference
Industrial foreign trawlers were fishing for turbot, a resource also used by local fishermen in Newfoundland, a Canadian province. From Wordnik.com. [Global Environment Outlook (GEO-4)~ Chapter 7] Reference
According to his philosophy, if he did have a turbot, why should he not have it with all its perfections about it — fins and all?. From Wordnik.com. [Castle Richmond] Reference
The garnishes for boiled fish are: for turbot, fried smelts; for other boiled fish, parsley, sliced beets, lemon or sliced boiled egg. From Wordnik.com. [The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) The Whole Comprising a Comprehensive Cyclopedia of Information for the Home] Reference
Domitian one day convoked the senate, to know in what fish-kettle they should cook a monstrous turbot, which had been presented to him. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 530, January 21, 1832] Reference
Cold turbot or any other delicate fish will do equally well or a small turret of whipped cream, slightly salted, should be piled on top. From Wordnik.com. [The Belgian Cookbook] Reference
Oh, what floods of turtle-soup, what tons of turbot and lobster-sauce must have been sacrificed to make those sinners properly miserable. From Wordnik.com. [George Cruikshank] Reference
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