carps
Example Sentences
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No different than some of these guys in the middle of our lineup, the Carps and Smoaks.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 29, 2011
But it is thought that all Carps are not bred by generation; but that some breed other ways, as some Pikes do.
From The Compleat Angler by Walton, Izaak
When your Fish are thus purify'd, dress your Carps after the following manner: To Stew Carps or Tench.
From The Country Housewife and Lady's Director in the Management of a House, and the Delights and Profits of a Farm by Bradley, Richard
The physicians make the galls and stones in the heads of Carps to be very medicinable.
From The Compleat Angler by Walton, Izaak
Walpurga was sitting at her distaff and telling the prince in the cradle the story of the King of the Carps, who swims about at the bottom of the lake.
From On the Heights A Novel by Auerbach, Berthold
