"Codfish" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... said Preston. "They are a mean set—fit for nothing but to eat codfish and scrape. I wish you had nothing ...
— Daisy • Elizabeth Wetherell
... sprinkling a layer of grated cheese upon each layer of macaroni. Pour in the sauce and sprinkle the top with cheese. Cook until the sauce bubbles up through the cheese and the top is brown. To give variety, finely-minced ham, boiled codfish, or any cold meat may be used instead of ...
— Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Household Science in Rural Schools • Ministry of Education Ontario
... cried, sitting up and looking in a trice quite spry and wide- awake. "I know what you are doing! You are admiring me, and wondering what work of nature I most resemble. I can see it in your face. And you came to the conclusion that it was a codfish! No quibbles, please! Tell me the truth. That was just exactly ...
— Tom and Some Other Girls - A Public School Story • Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey
... pre-eminence which it has since lost. It stood second only to London as a British port. A group of wealthy merchants carried on from Bristol a lively trade with Iceland and the northern ports of Europe. The town was the chief centre for an important trade in codfish. Days of fasting were generally observed at that time; on these the eating of meat was forbidden by the church, and fish was consequently in great demand. The merchants of Bristol were keen traders, and were always ...
— The Dawn of Canadian History: A Chronicle of Aboriginal Canada • Stephen Leacock
... this queer-looking affair—its flapper (as it is called), the same fundamental elements as the fore-leg of the Horse or the Dog, or the Ape or Man; and here you will notice a very curious thing,—the hinder limbs are absent. Now, let us make another jump. Let us go to the Codfish: here you see is the forearm, in this large pectoral fin—carrying your mind's eye onward from the flapper of the Porpoise. And here you have the hinder limbs restored in the shape of these ventral fins. If I ...
— Lectures and Essays • T.H. Huxley
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