herring• Herring, herring! until you were sick to death of them.• Girls, caught by the arm, have snowrubbed into their hair like salt into a herring.• When a herring meets its end, it is usually in the mouth of a bigger fish or a in a net.• I., resident, as he sifted through a group of deadherring and scat on East Matunuck Beach.• A few dozen herring here or there; nobodytroubled: every child went home with a few dozen herring on a string.• One issue between these parties was whether the herringmealsuppliedcorresponded with the description.• The herring was never quite considered a member of the fish family.• Those herring fishing days are gone.