fish-market

"It's no problem," said close family friend Sharon Bellamy-Thompson, a Barbados fish-market operator, to US magazine.

Mike Alvear: Rihanna the Floormat 2009

The prose of the fish-market stories is as graceful and unadorned as a Shaker chair, and its incantatory rhythms are as soothing as old hymns.

The Paragon Of Reporters 2008

"I read 'Ulysses' in college and never got over it," says Mitchell of James Joyce, and the fish-market tales teem with images of death and regeneration.

The Paragon Of Reporters 2008

They assembled in Paris in two localities, near the fish-market, in a wine-shop called Corinthe, of which more will be heard later on, and near the Pantheon in a little cafe in the Rue Saint – Michel called the Cafe

Les Miserables 2008

There was something of that boy in Poquelin, the son of the fish-market; Beaumarchais had something of it.

Les Miserables 2008

"When I was young, the advice I was given by my elders and my betters was 'give it up,'" recalled Sir Michael, the son of a Cockney fish-market porter and charwoman, who was born Maurice Micklewhite and got the inspiration for his stage name from a movie theater marquee advertising "The Caine Mutiny."

Michael Caine, Working Actor 2007

Take a view of Paris, and observe the contrast between that quarter of it where the fish-market (Halles) is situated, the St. Pierre-aux-bœufs, the streets Brisemiche and Pet-au-diable and the beauty and splendor of the Louvre and the Tuileries.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

I have executed the mandates of bishops, which has never been the case with you; I have abused philosophers in the language of the fish-market, while you have protected, imitated, or equalled them;

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

They had a queen named Carolina, a handsome, intelligent woman, with whom I made great friends; and also a captain, who had a daughter so like me that when I used to go to the fish-market at first they used to chaff me, thinking she had dressed up like a lady for fun.

The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton 2006

There was a fish-market not so very far from his home, and there, on his way to see his father at the bank, or conducting his brothers on after-school expeditions, he liked to look at a certain tank in front of one store where were kept odd specimens of sea-life brought in by the Delaware Bay fishermen.

The Financier 2004