"Shrimp" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... ho-ho'd. "A shrimp! A sea-louse!" And he made to squash me between huge forefinger and thumb, either of which, Lingaard avers, was thicker than ...
— The Jacket (The Star-Rover) • Jack London
... used for catching fish in shallow waters, or for taking the shrimp, and a small fish like the white-bait, but they need not ...
— Journals Of Expeditions Of Discovery Into Central • Edward John Eyre
... immediately added my own voice to his pleadings, arguing that Cancale must certainly be on the sea. That, from my recollection of numerous water-colors and black-and-whites labeled in the catalogue, "Coast near Cancale," and the like, I was sure there must be the customary fish-girls, with shrimp-nets carried gracefully over one shoulder, to say nothing of brawny-chested fishermen with flat, rimless caps, having the usual little round button ...
— A Gentleman Vagabond and Some Others • F. Hopkinson Smith
... replied Mrs Jiniwin. 'When my poor husband, her dear father, was alive, if he had ever ventured a cross word to me, I'd have—' The good old lady did not finish the sentence, but she twisted off the head of a shrimp with a vindictiveness which seemed to imply that the action was in some degree a substitute for words. In this light it was clearly understood by the other party, who immediately replied with great approbation, ...
— The Old Curiosity Shop • Charles Dickens
... gladly out of the boat but little Franz, who, lying packed in his tub like a potted shrimp, had to be lifted ...
— Journeys Through Bookland V3 • Charles H. Sylvester
... have done for a felon instead of a fool, encircled her neck, and was weighted with innumerable lockets, which in size and inventive taste resembled a poached egg, and betrayed the insular goldsmith. A train three yards long completed this gorgeous figure. She had commenced life a shrimp-girl, and pushed a dredge before her, instead of pulling a silken besom after her. Another stately queen (with an "a") heated the atmosphere with a burnous of that color the French call flamme d'enfer, and cooled it with a green bonnet. A third ...
— The Woman-Hater • Charles Reade
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— McGuffey's Eclectic Spelling Book • W. H. McGuffey |
