"Bream" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... when we could not catch any ourselves with hook and line; and there was not a proper place near us where we could draw a net. The fish which they brought us were either sardines, or what resembled them much; a small kind of bream; ...
— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 16 • Robert Kerr
... him go?" said Master Silas. "Presently we shall have neither deer nor dog, neither hare nor coney, neither swan nor heron; every carp from pool, every bream from brook, will be groped for. The marble monuments in the church will no longer protect the leaden coffins; and if there be any ring of gold on the finger of knight or dame, it will be torn away with as little ruth ...
— Citation and Examination of William Shakspeare • Walter Savage Landor
... trim the boat to the wind through narrow channels in weather in which Jean would hardly venture to do it himself: and the way in which the fish took his bait made Jean sometimes cross himself, as he counted over the shining boat-load of bream and cod, and mutter in his guttural Breton speech, "'Tis the blessed St. Yvon aids him." Everybody liked him in the village, and he took a kind of lead among the other lads, but, whether it was the grave ...
— A Loose End and Other Stories • S. Elizabeth Hall
... can be easily reproduced. When he was at table with Eustache Blanchet, Prelati, Gilles de Sille, all his trusted companions, in the great room, the plates and the ewers filled with water of medlar, rose, and melilote for washing the hands, were placed on credences. Gilles ate beef-, salmon-, and bream-pies; levert-and squab-tarts; roast heron, stork, crane, peacock, bustard, and swan; venison in verjuice; Nantes lampreys; salads of briony, hops, beard of judas, mallow; vehement dishes seasoned with marjoram and mace, coriander and sage, peony and rosemary, basil and hyssop, ...
— La-bas • J. K. Huysmans
... muskola. Bray (ass) bleki. Bray (to pound) pisti. Brazen bronza. Breach brecxo. Bread pano. Bread (unleavened) maco. Breadth largxeco. Break rompi. Break off disrompi. Break, to pieces frakasi. Breakfast matenmangxi. Bream bramo. Breast brusto. Breast mamo. Breath elspirajxo. Breathe spiri. Breathe (heavily) stertori. Breathing spirado. Breech (of gun) sxargujo. Breeches pantalono. Breed (race) raso. Breeze venteto. Brevity ...
— English-Esperanto Dictionary • John Charles O'Connor and Charles Frederic Hayes
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