sprat

They are more usually known by their common name, sprats.

Me and the sprats can take care of things here."

Or did you pick up these two sprats along the way?"

"He's been disturbing our poor sprats for some time with his singing."

"Mother was fine then, and the sprats were fine too."

Fear of him keeps the older sprats in line.

Doctor South did not reply, and the servant brought in some grilled sprats.

Also, small herrings may be used instead of sprats.

Your vibrations disturb our sprats, as I said, and they shoot off in all directions.

Fishing for sprats could be a relatively worthless business.

Monks scattered like sprats as the elderly man began to shriek.

"You've got to bait with something bigger than sprats to catch a whale, Ned."

There were plenty of sprats and adults to watch him, but he took little notice of them.

Yet numerous younger sprats swam with a gang too.

Sometimes the little tin contains Norwegian "anchovies," which are sprats.

In the following December large numbers were taken together with sprats at Torquay.

Eye steps up so close behind her, she can smell the smoked sprats the old woman gnawed for dinner.

Like most forage fishes, sprats are highly active small oily fish.

Never forget the sprats that get those.

Suppose that half are sprats, all right?

Until the time should arrive when he might angle for whales, he was prepared to catch sprats.

Didn't you augurs send sprats to Scylla in the old days?"

And all the time the girl's steaming stale sprats in an open vat - you can imagine the stink.

Silk snapped, "What chance would these sprats have- without your palaestra?"

The recipe is often mistranslated into English, with anchovies being substituted for sprats.