Sentence examples for like a codfish from inspiring English sources

Another woman described him as possessing "a long colorless face that looked like a codfish crossed by a satyr".

I remember opening and closing my mouth like a codfish, and then bouncing up and down shouting: "Oh my God, yes, I'd love to.

Alice attends a garden party, accompanied by her rather less indulgent mother, played by Lindsay Duncan ("To me, a corset is like a codfish," says Alice. "Please," sighs Mama, "not today").. Facing marriage to an aristo- cratic bore, Alice escapes down a rabbit hole that here becomes a dark vortex of 3D debris.

His roommate at the Dirty Boardinghouse, for example, is said to look like "a bilious codfish attempting to swallow a cannon ball".

Columbus' reign of terror, as documented by noted historians, was so bloody, his legacy so unspeakably cruel, that Columbus makes a modern villain like Saddam Hussein look like a pale codfish.

Among the main events are housemade trenne pasta with a deeply flavored sauce of ground shell steak, Barolo wine, tomato and basil and a cannoli-like codfish cylinder atop a platform of black truffle risotto.

A codfish contains 1percenttotalal fat.

But I would hate to lose the opportunity to try smaller plates, like smoky grilled octopus with parsley and an olive purée ($8) or buttery brandade ($9), airy as a codfish soufflé.

"New York has always been a codfish town, I don't know why," he said.

A codfish stew was marked "mild" on the menu but lacked taste as well as heat.

The Bunraku puppet master received a Kokopelli figure, maple sugar, a drawing of a codfish, and chocolate.