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the sprats
noun
Any of various small, herring-like, marine fish in the genus , in the family Clupeidae.
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My correspondent also mentions the abundance of gannets, doubtless following the sprats.
Once every few years the sprats come into Slade harbour, a shoal of shimmering silver pulsing between the dock walls.
Stafford Scott, a longstanding community activist in Tottenham, said of the tactics of Trident: "They allow sharks to have guns in our community, and when the sharks pass the guns to the sprats, they arrest the sprats and lock them up.
Those nauseated 37 years ago by the "groovy" lyrics (mostly by Stephen Schwartz, author of the rock musical "Godspell" with John-Michael Tebelak) are unlikely to have changed their minds about lines like: "God said: Let there be sprats to gobble the gnats so that the sprats may nourish the rats, making them fat, fine food for the cats," and so on, ending with, "And it was good!
There would be no conflict for the Sprats to overcome or to share with kids or for kids to learn from.
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Since the sprat's fin is closer to the tail, the sprat will hang with its head lower.
"Watch this," he said, and dumped the sprat into the tank.
The sprat is taken in some quantities in the most northern parts, such as in the northern Adriatic.
We travelled farther down the road, the sprat jostling behind us, and eventually stopped at an aquarium called Kelly Tarlton's Antarctic Encounter and Underwater World.
Once, trying on his Halloween outfit, he roared, "I'm a lion gazdume!" His mother is not pleased with the sprat.
The prosecution has a "tame" witness, a Merrill Lynch broker involved in the transactions at issue, clearly designated the sprat to catch the celebrity mackerel.
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