... Andre-Louis ate his herrings and black bread with a good appetite nevertheless... 
Rafael Sabatini 「Scaramouche」
...There is a very peculiar look on the rotten wood on the ground roundhere; to-night it has patches and flecks of iridescence like one seeson herrings or mackerel that have been kept too long...
Mary H. Kingsley 「Travels in West Africa」
... The dinner of the slaves consisted of a huge piece of ash cake, and a small piece of pork, or two salt herrings...
Frederick Douglass 「My Bondage and My Freedom」
...The slaves on our plantation were provided with very little meat In addition to the peck of corn or meal, they were allowed a little salt and a few herrings...
Austin Steward 「Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman」
...44, 107); and herrings when the net hasjust been drawn have been observed to do the same...
J. Emerson Tennent 「Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon」
...The finback does not confine itself entirely, or even chiefly, asstated by Blyth, to a diet of Cephalapoda, but is a fish-eater toboot, doing great damage to shoals of such fish as cod, herrings,&c...
Robert A. Sterndale 「Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon」
...Theyfeed on herrings, sprats, mollusca, worms, and small shell-fish,are very voracious, and have excellent digestions...
Various 「Natural History in Anecdote」
...The mackerel is one of the most voracious of all fishes; and when they get among a shoal of herrings, they make such havoc as frequently to drive it off the coast...
Samuel Griswold Goodrich 「Illustrative Anecdotes of the Animal Kingdom」
...About fifty years ago, the shoals of herrings came into Loch Urn, Scotland, in such amazing quantities, that, from the narrows to the head, about two miles, it was quite full...
Samuel Griswold Goodrich 「Illustrative Anecdotes of the Animal Kingdom」
...They laid siege to the convent, and forthree days Prior Hotoun and forty-six monks were shut upwith only six loaves and sixteen herrings...
J. E. Bygate 「Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Durham」
...and three ells of canvas for a shirt; hegave also to each of them a pair of shoes and a portion of red herrings...
W.D. Sweeting 「The Cathedral Church of Peterborough」
...The meteors cannot choose their own track, like the shoal of herrings,for they are compelled to follow the route which is prescribed to themby the sun...
Robert Stawell Ball 「The Story of the Heavens」
...We are told that there is no fearof the herrings becoming exhausted, for those the fishermen catch are asnothing compared to the profusion in which they abound in ocean...
Robert Stawell Ball 「The Story of the Heavens」
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