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  • Each morning, I would go down to the Jupiter Inlet jetty and chat up the local fish-heads.

    HAVE YOU SEEN MY COUNTRY LATELY? JERRY DOYLE 2010

  • And why is Chan beating on 10 year-old fish-heads?

    The Karate Kid Remake Movie Trailer; Looks Surprisingly Watchable | /Film 2009

  • Hekekiyan Bey had the fish-heads counted in one public garden and found 70,000.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • And when we got hungry, we wanted food that reminded us of home, not the fish-heads and strange fruits of the Chinaman.

    The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection Dozois, Gardner 2006

  • That would explain why the Panathenian Way was so full of fish-heads, fish guts, crab claws, prawn shells, and cuttlefish.

    See Delphi and Die Davis, Lindsey 2005

  • I'd gone from covert to clandestine when I'd shed my identity as Clive Gage, journalist, and adopted the identity of Petr Lein, engineer, and if I now pushed those papers among the tea-leaves and tin cans and fish-heads of the nearest rubbish dump I would technically be operating in hazard: without papers and without any chance of surviving if a single militiaman checked me in the street.

    Northlight Hall, Adam, 1920- 1985

  • The butter eluded me for some time: but eventually I tracked it down in the meat-safe, which also contained some cakes on an enamel plate, and a bowl of cooked fish-heads thoughtfully ticketed cat'lest, I suppose, I should be tempted to eat them myself.

    Crime On the Coast Carr, John Dickson 1984

  • Nothing common or unclean was visible, -- no heaps of fish-heads, served up on clam-shells, and garnished with bean-pods, potato-skins, and corn-husks; no pigs in sight, nor in the air, -- not even a cow to imperil the neatness of the place.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866 Various

  • And there came a little short woman, who made ready a soup out of fish-bones and fish-heads and crusts of bread and turnip-stalks, and brought him the worst of the servants 'beer to quench his thirst with.

    Finnish Legends for English Children R. Eivind

  • Remove fish-heads and herbs, then strain the stock, and set aside until needed.

    Dishes & Beverages of the Old South Martha McCulloch-Williams

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