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There's Alderman Toad and his lady, 'Twas they gave the Clart and the Poort, And the poine-apples, turbots, and lobsters, To feast the Lord Liftinint's Coort.

From Ballads by Thackeray, William Makepeace

Tommy says that Gherkins wear turbots on their heads.

From Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, December 2, 1914 by Seaman, Owen, Sir

“Why, you don’t catch turbots here, and like this?”

From Menhardoc by Staniland, C.J.

I could see “schools” of small herring fry and broad round plaice, and huge turbots, and beautiful green mackerel, and great conger eels as large as boa-constrictors, all engaged in pursuits of pleasure or prey.

From The Boy Tar by Read, Edward

Soles, turbots, and other flatfish are, as is well known, unsymmetrical.

From Darwinism (1889) by Wallace, Alfred Russel