FOLLIOTT. Here is a very fine salmon before me: and May is the very point nomme to have salmon in perfection. There is a fine turbot close by, and there is much to be said in his behalf: but salmon in May is the king of fish.英文原著 · 《Crotchet Castle》
Fish also are plentiful, such as fresh cod, plaice, flounders, soles, whitings, smelts, sturgeon, oysters, lobsters, crabs, shrimps, mackerel, and herrings in the season; but it must be confessed that salmon, turbot, and some other sea-fish are dear, as well as fresh-water fish.英文原著 · 《London in 1731》
To do that required a man whose acquaintance with the deep was limited to a view of it from an upper window at Margate or Scarborough. Even frequent dinners of turbot and whitebait at the sign of The Ship and Turtle will not en- able one to write sea poetry. Considering the actual facts, there is some- thing weird in the statement,英文原著 · 《Ponkapog Papers》
The sweet sounds they followed, The gasping cod swallow'd-- 'Twas wonderful, really; And turbot and flounder, 'Mid fish that were rounder, Just caper'd as gaily.英文原著 · 《The Lilac Fairy Book》
In like manner I am a fender-fisherman. With my shins toasting before a roaring fire, and with Judge Methuen at my side, I love to exploit the joys and the glories of angling. The Judge is ``a brother of the angle,'' as all will allow who have heard him tell Father Prout's story of the bishop and the turbots or heard him sing--英文原著 · 《The Love Affairs Of A Bibliomaniac》