Small herring processed like a sardine

Usage examples of sprat.

In 1663, Sprat was nominated for membership in the Royal Society with the provision that he would write a history of the Society to help it defend itself against its religious detractors.

With this assertion Sprat, expressing a view common among scientists of his day, established the methodological guidelines for replacing the preternatural realm of demons, spirits, and angels with the modern scientific theoretical realm of quarks, virtual particles, and superstrings.

We can only speculate as to whether Sprat was aware of the ease with which he moved from the statement that miracles exist everywhere to the assertion that miracles exist nowhere.

With respect to the Devil, Sprat, again assuming an authority that is normally granted only to supernatural revelation, assured his readers that Christianity is secure, so the Devil is no longer a threat.

With his theological defense of the mechanical philosophy, Sprat appears to be one of the pioneering theologians of this new sect.

He felt like a sex-drunk, harebrained adolescent again, like the spotty boy who had tumbled Amy Sprat in the heather so long ago.

She had her faults, Amy Sprat, but she was as tough as a veteran warhorse.

Shall we just say that you are the sprat with which I mean to catch a mackerel, as I think the saying goes?

Mansoul swallowed it without chewing, as if it had been a sprat in the mouth of a whale.

A man could not be jealous of a woman whom he regarded as a mere tool, a sprat to catch a mackerel, as the saying had it.

Albrecht Amsel was known as a wholesale purchaser of fresh-water fish as well as deep-sea fish: chests of the lightest pinewood, golden yellow and packed full of smoked flounder, smoked eel, sprats both loose and bundled, lampreys, codfish roe, and strongly or subtly smoked Vistula salmon, with the inscription: A.

Sprat claimed that experimental philosophers are satisfied with a plain believing, or unquestioning faith, requiring no empirical evidence or experiential confirmation.

But every dragon know that one in three sprats from a leatherback and green mating will be freemartin.

The sprats count also, however, and every week now telegrams were reaching England from Lord Kitchener which showed that from three to five hundred more burghers had fallen into our hands.

She started in at breakfast on canned sardines, two hours later, unless there happened to be customers in the shop, she would dig into a case of Bohnsack sprats, for lunch she would demand fried flounder or codfish with mustard sauce, and in the afternoon there she was again with her can opener: eels in jelly, rollmops, baked herring, and if Matzerath refused to fry or boil more fish for supper, she would waste no breath in arguing, but would quietly leave the table and come back from the shop with a chunk of smoked eel.