What is "pollock"

Usage examples of "pollock".

A pleasant land it is in sooth of murmuring waters, fishful streams where sport the gurnard, the plaice, the roach, the halibut, the gibbed haddock, the grilse, the dab, the brill, the flounder, the pollock, the mixed coarse fish generally and other denizens of the aqueous kingdom too numerous to be enumerated.

Shadow think of Jackson Pollock, because it was less problematic to think of Jackson Pollock than to accept the alternative.

Index is a restorationist, specializing in the paintings of Jackson Pollock.

Pollock regaled them with the story of her miracle cure for tinnitus, but Sally was too busy grabbing her bag and jacket.

But Labanotation was merely a Jackson Pollock jumble of arcane hieroglyphics to her today, instead of the careful representation of eurhythmics she had studied four years to perfect.

It had been so overfished during the last century that it was now closed by international treaty to allow the native marine species, especially pollock, to repopulate.

Waterhouse, considering him to be comparatively safe here, and within the pale of Freetown influence, left him and went back with the expedition to Gbemma, and Pollock became very friendly with Perea, the only resident white trader at Sulyma-so friendly, indeed, that he went about with him everywhere.

Pollock and Perea played Nap-the only game they had in common-and Pollock got into debt.

Pollock, staring gloomily at the greasy cards that Perea was putting on the table.

In the evening, as Pollock and Perea were playing cards, the Mendi rough came in through the doorway, carrying something in a blood-soaked piece of native cloth.

He told Perea of the business as though it was a jest Pollock and the Porroh Man 21 -a jest to be told with white lips.

Overcoming his aversion to handling the thing, he went down to the river mouth and threw it into the sea-water, but by some miracle it escaped the crocodiles, and was cast up by the tide on the mud a little way up the river, to be found by an intelligent Arab half-breed, and offered for sale to Pollock and Perea as a curiosity, just on the edge of night.

However, he made Shakespeare, the Freetown halfbreed, come up to his own end of the canoe and tell him about Porroh, which Shakespeare, failing in his attempts to leave Pollock alone, presently did with considerable freedom and gusto.

He had been prevented, not by any tactics that she and Caley Bard employed but rather by the behaviour of Dr Natouche himself who skilfully avoided giving Pollock any chance to exhibit ill-will.

Dr Natouche had offered no opportunity for Mr Pollock to insult him and Mr Pollock had retired, as Caley Bard pointed out to Troy, upon a grumpy alliance with the Hewsons with whom he could be observed in ridiculously furtive conference, presumably about racial relations.