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"Plaice" Quotes from Famous Books

... Each flounder and plaice lay cold at his heart, As cold as his marble slab; And he thought he felt, in every part, ...

— The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood • Thomas Hood

... wears a cap of many frills, and swears just like a man. I'll yarn with hearty, hairy chaps who dance and leap and crack their heels; Who swallow cupfuls of cognac and never turn a hair; I'll watch the nut-brown boats come in with mullet, plaice and conger eels, The jeweled harvest of the sea they ...

— Ballads of a Bohemian • Robert W. Service

... of the young sole, like that of its relatives, the plaice, turbot, and flounder, takes the form of a crystal globe of a jelly-like material, in the centre of which lies a smaller globe containing the germ which will grow into the young fish, a little store of food material, and a small quantity of ...

— Chatterbox, 1906 • Various

... whispered to Mrs. Graham as he watched the dun-cows curling their bodies and the skate gasping in the air. He looked over the side of the trawler and saw baskets of dabs and plaice and some soles and turbot and a couple of crabs. A plaice flapped helplessly and fell off the heap in the basket on to the bottom of the boat, and one of the fishermen trod on it.... "They're all alive," Henry said, turning again ...

— Changing Winds - A Novel • St. John G. Ervine

... matrimony. It would be necessary to find a new parlour-maid, and all the trouble connected with that would not nearly be compensated for by being able to buy fish at a lower rate. That was the least that Withers could do for her, to insist that Mr. Hopkins should let her have dabs and plaice exceptionally cheap. And ought she to tell Withers that she had seen Mr. Hopkins ... no, that was impossible: she must write it, if she decided (for Withers' sake) ...

— Miss Mapp • Edward Frederic Benson

Words linked to "Plaice" : righteyed flounder, Pleuronectes, genus Pleuronectes, flounder, righteye flounder