carp

Split the carp if large; cut it in large pieces, and salt it.

When of a good size, as in Holland, they are a remarkably fine fresh-water fish, though not so delicate as carp or tench.

Had he learned to carp at the rich, and to make honesty the excuse for all penury?

I was making a sketch of beeches and to pass the time she fed the carp.

I told him I was going away; I had fed the carp for the last time.

The rigorous metaphysician will please not begin to carp at our definition.

But what if they carp at that which in close-shut mind they long for?

Again the line tightened and again the carp turned to the shore.

Carp is the chief stock; but tench and perch, eels and pike are raised.

She is gaping after love like a carp after water on a kitchen-table.