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Photographs of shrimp boats and fishermen with their splendid catches of blues and whitings lined the walls from top to bottom.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

Pâris strikes the imagination by means of rebuses: an armchair garnished with clincher-nails will give "Clou, vis—Clovis"; and, as the sound of frying makes "ric, ric," whitings in a stove will recall "Chilperic."

From Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life by Flaubert, Gustave

I went to captain whitings and nothing remarkable hapned. the 12.

From The Military Journals of Two Private Soldiers, 1758-1775 With Numerous Illustrative Notes by Tomlinson, Abraham

Salmon trout, as it is usually called, haddocks, or large whitings are carved in the same way.

From Routledge's Manual of Etiquette by Routledge, George

Thus do antiquaries, like whitings, prey upon each other, illustrating their own proverb, Mercantia non vuol ni amici ni parenti.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 367, May 1846 by Various