"Smoked herring" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... region round about Woodbridge had been literally deluged with a spring downpour. Otter Creek had swollen to twice its normal size, springs were gushing from most unheard-of places and rivulets were racing down hillsides that usually were, to quote Nipper Knapp, "dry as a smoked herring." ...
— The Boy Scout Fire Fighters • Irving Crump
... illustrate the force of imagination, ranging through all the grades of mental action, from the lofty visions of good men who dream of seeing heaven opened to them, and all its ineffable glories and delights, down to the low comedy conceit of the fellow who put a smoked herring into the tail of his coat ...
— The Humbugs of the World • P. T. Barnum
... the family were gathered round the fire-place, where a huge kettle was boiling, containing "sillsallat," or smoked herring, ...
— The Waif of the "Cynthia" • Andre Laurie and Jules Verne |
