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Example sentences for "fishmonger"

Lexicographically close words:
fishhooks; fishing; fishings; fishlike; fishman; fishmongers; fishpole; fishpond; fishponds; fishtail
  1. The fishmonger catches sight of the lobster dangling from your hand, and, believing you have stolen it, follows with a loud cry of "Stop thief!

  2. And the glorious fishmonger still leaves his offerings at my door.

  3. The fishmonger (talk of statues to heroes!

  4. The astounded fishmonger could not get away from this.

  5. The fishmonger jumped from the ground in his rage.

  6. The cook and the butcher as often lose their credit by meat being dressed too fresh, as the fishmonger does by fish that has been kept too long.

  7. Once for all, take care your vegetables are fresh: for as the fishmonger often suffers for the sins of the cook, so the cook often gets undeservedly blamed instead of the green-grocer.

  8. It is the business of the fishmonger to clean them, &c.

  9. The aldermen for the first time included a fishmonger in 1291.

  10. And then, having made his fishmonger say all the vile things about Montaigu that he can think of, Erasmus, true to his nature, begins to hedge.

  11. A salt-fishmonger in such a sour college?

  12. As I am the best Man in the World to keep my own Counsel, and my Land-lord the Fishmonger not knowing my Name, this Accident of my Life was never discovered to this very Day.

  13. Fishmonger in the Strand, he shall be very well rewarded for his Pains.

  14. The fishmonger had lately started on himself and was doing well.

  15. Having discussed the weather and the potato-disease, he explained that his sister Mary, whom Lizzie would remember, had married a fishmonger in Dundee.

  16. The fishmonger led off by placing a five-pound note in the plate, and the packed audience breathed so hard that the plate-holder's responsibility began to weigh upon his spirits.

  17. Our fishmonger is run away this night and hath stolne a boate of his neighbors.

  18. We sould 10 fardelles rotten cuttelfish to our fishmonger for 7 tais 8 mas, to tak fish for howse in payment.

  19. I rushed through the crowd; and whether the blow which I had lent the fishmonger operated upon their courage and humanity, I cannot tell, but they made way for me.

  20. The fishmonger spoke of calling for the police.

  21. An epicurean fishmonger of the name of Samuel Tull performed this operation on fishes, to render them more delicate.

  22. Lady Fishmonger Ellington, was it not, Osborne?

  23. One of the men seated at the table, however, was a fishmonger who, before entering the public house of the Rue de Chaffaut, had been to stable his horse at Labarre's.

  24. This fishmonger had been a member half an hour previously of the group which surrounded Jacquin Labarre, and had himself related his disagreeable encounter of the morning to the people at the Cross of Colbas.

  25. Now, when he met him, the man, who then seemed already extremely weary, had requested him to take him on his crupper; to which the fishmonger had made no reply except by redoubling his gait.

  26. There was a fishmonger not long ago, Who asked four whole drachmas for his tench.

  27. For he has given many different laws, And now he introduces this new statute, A golden statute, that no fishmonger Should sell his fish while sitting, but that all Shall stand all day i' the market.

  28. I found a man, An honest fishmonger of pickled fish, Of whom I bought a huge fish ready scaled, Cheap at a drachma, for two oboli.

  29. And Alexis, in his Rich Heiress, mentions a certain fishmonger by name, Micio.

  30. The old fishmonger himself, seated snug and sly at his desk in the corner of the room, watchful as the dragon that guarded the golden apples of the Hesperides, would only give credit to good and approved signatures.

  31. The fishmonger knew a good salmon by its appearance; he had also a keen respect for the man who had ancestors and ancestral estates.

  32. To be under the shadow of the fishmonger was greatness itself.

  33. In France, anybody could eat fish, of any and all kinds; but every fishmonger was obliged to obtain permission from the king to sell it.

  34. He obtained one weighing four or six pounds, for which the fishmonger asked only £60.

  35. My knock at the door was answered by the fishmonger himself.


  36. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fishmonger" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.