Example Sentences

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These fish were the last of the season, and were thus undergoing the process of kippering.

From Malcolm by MacDonald, George

She hoped that her effort to take her mother’s place in the kippering shed would put a stop to the fisherwives’ opinion that she was “setting hersel’ up aboon them a’.”

From Christine A Fife Fisher Girl by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston

She 201 has seen the kippering done, ever since she wore ankle tights.”

From Christine A Fife Fisher Girl by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston

All the processes of gutting, curing, and kippering go on in grand style.

From Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland by Holmes, Daniel Turner

Then Norman went away, and Christine put back in its place the kippering suit, and took out her very prettiest selling suit.

From Christine A Fife Fisher Girl by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston