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  • “No, not exactly,” I tell her, eying a shady-looking character named Bob Stockfish, wanted for armed robbery in fourteen states.

    Ten Miles Past Normal Frances O’Roark Dowell 2011

  • During that time, we were working with John Stockfish, who had played with Gordon Lightfoot, and Croce used to play back-up guitar on some of those tracks.

    Mike Ragogna: From Jim Croce to MTM: A Conversation with Producer, Singer & Songwriter Tommy West Mike Ragogna 2011

  • “No, not exactly,” I tell her, eying a shady-looking character named Bob Stockfish, wanted for armed robbery in fourteen states.

    Ten Miles Past Normal Frances O’Roark Dowell 2011

  • During that time, we were working with John Stockfish, who had played with Gordon Lightfoot, and Croce used to play back-up guitar on some of those tracks.

    Mike Ragogna: From Jim Croce to MTM: A Conversation with Producer, Singer & Songwriter Tommy West Mike Ragogna 2011

  • One example is tocco, which is a rich ragù, or “Stockfish air-dried cod with broad beans”—the chief components are combined with potato, garlic, oil, and salt to make a simple, succulent warm salad.

    Delizia! John Dickie 2008

  • Stockfish Perhaps the best known dried fish in the West is the Scandinavian stock-fish, which traditionally has been cod, ling, or their relatives, freeze-dried for several weeks on rocky beaches along the cold, windy coasts of Norway, Iceland, and Sweden.

    On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004

  • Stockfish Perhaps the best known dried fish in the West is the Scandinavian stock-fish, which traditionally has been cod, ling, or their relatives, freeze-dried for several weeks on rocky beaches along the cold, windy coasts of Norway, Iceland, and Sweden.

    On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004

  • Of the commodious Stockfish of Island and keeping of the Sea namely the Narrow sea, with an incident of the keeping of Caleis.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • Don Stockfish, soul of a mortar, stone of a date, more obstinate and obdurate than a clown asked a favour when he has his mind made up, if I fall upon you I'll tear your eyes out!

    Don Quixote 2002

  • Next day the news brought the other tribes out, with the Stockfish under a general called Slimer on the right, the Tunnyheads on the left, and the Crabhands in the centre; the Tritonomendetes stayed at home, preferring neutrality.

    Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 02 of Samosata Lucian 1894

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