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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Russian Rambles] Reference

Our sterlet was nearly two feet long, and may have cost twenty or thirty dollars.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865] Reference

This day investigation dropped; reconsidered verdict states poisoning to have been by sterlet caviar.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Genius] Reference

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 weight) of the value of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers] Reference

The bones are of a very glutinous nature, and can be easily masticated, while the taste of a sterlet is something between that of a barbel and a perch, the muddy flavour of the former predominating.    From Wordnik.com.  [Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers] Reference

Now we came to some fishing-huts, which were constructed on the frozen river, the traffic in the finny tribe which takes place in this part of Russia being very great, the Volga producing the sterlet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers] Reference

Here's tender bream, pluck, a bit of sterlet here!.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Survey of Russian Literature, with Selections] Reference

"This one is, I think, a sterlet," said Chateau-Renaud.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Count of Monte Cristo] Reference

Their sterlet is even better than the Hermitage at Moscow.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hushed Up! A Mystery of London] Reference

Fortunately, the catch of sterlet at this stand had been good.    From Wordnik.com.  [Russian Rambles] Reference

They swear by him, they offer him to you as they would a dish of choice sterlet.    From Wordnik.com.  [War and Peace] Reference

The sterlet is expensive in regions where the cook-book flourishes, and the other fish are merely.    From Wordnik.com.  [Russian Rambles] Reference

At supper they served sterlet, chicken rissoles, and stewed fruit; the wines were expensive French wines.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories] Reference

It was lucky that we had purchased fish at our breakfast-place, as no sterlet had been caught at this camp.    From Wordnik.com.  [Russian Rambles] Reference

A favourite fish among the higher classes is the sterlet, a sort of sturgeon; soup is made of it, but it is very expensive.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fred Markham in Russia The Boy Travellers in the Land of the Czar] Reference

There was nothing very valuable in it, though there was variety enough, and we were deceived, for a moment, by several false sterlet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Russian Rambles] Reference

"Baptistin," said the count, "have the other fish brought in -- the sterlet and the lamprey which came in the other casks, and which are yet alive.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Count of Monte Cristo] Reference

I remember one particularly delicious concoction was composed of fresh sterlet and sour cabbage, with white grapes on top, baked to a brown crispness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Russian Rambles] Reference

Switzerland, and lobsters sent from England, by the same means used by the count to bring the lampreys from Lake Fusaro, and the sterlet from the Volga.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Count of Monte Cristo] Reference

Fresh caviar is in perfection there, as also the sterlet or young sturgeon; the latter is caught in the Danube, and is a most dainty and much prized fish.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gourmet's Guide to Europe] Reference

Almer drank red wine and ate with relish some sort of bird served with truffles, and ordered a matelote of eelpouts and a sterlet with its tail in its mouth.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Schoolmaster] Reference

I have sometimes, when living as an honoured guest in a rich merchant's house, found it difficult to obtain anything simpler than sterlet, sturgeon, and champagne.    From Wordnik.com.  [Russia] Reference

With the second course, a gigantic sterlet (at sight of which Ilya Rostov blushed with self-conscious pleasure), the footmen began popping corks and filling the champagne glasses.    From Wordnik.com.  [War and Peace] Reference

Of the other sturgeon species commonly used to produce caviar, the sterlet is listed as vulnerable, while the Persian sturgeon and stellar sturgeon are both critically endangered.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Scientist - Online News] Reference

The Volga is not only an important highway for goods and passengers, but also an inexhaustible fish preserve; indeed the sturgeon and sterlet fisheries constitute its greatest wealth.    From Wordnik.com.  [From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People] Reference

We made acquaintance with some of his democratic manners during a truly unique picnic, arranged by our charming hosts expressly to convince us that the famous sterlet merited its reputation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Russian Rambles] Reference

After these may be placed the sturgeon and sterlet of the Caspian, the silurus of the Sea of Aral, the Aleppo eel, and the palla, a small but excellent fish, which is captured in the Indus during the flood season.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 5. (of 7): Persia The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations.] Reference

"He forgets all about finishing the reisak, and goes to chasing sterlet!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beauty and the Beast, and Tales of Home] Reference

Here is a bream; there a lump of sterlet.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Talking Beasts] Reference

"amber sterlet soup.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Russian Rambles] Reference