All 50 Uses of
carp
in
Bless Me, Ultima
Uses with a meaning too common or too rare to warrant foucs:
- Stay and sleep to the doves cou-rou while we cross the mighty River of the Carp to build our father's castle in the hills.†
Chpt 2
- The brown waters of the River of the Carp wound their way southward to the orchards of my uncles.†
Chpt 3
- We are the giants who are dying ....We have seen the land of the golden carp ....Then there was a loud crashing of branches behind me and I turned and saw the three dark figures looming over me.†
Chpt 7
- Have you ever fished for the carp of the river?†
Chpt 9
- The river was full of big, brown carp.†
Chpt 9
- It was called the River of the Carp.†
Chpt 9
- Everybody knew it was bad luck to fish for the big carp that the summer floods washed downstream.†
Chpt 9
- The waters would subside very fast and in places the water would be so low that, as the carp swam back upstream, the backs of the fish would raise a furrow in the water.†
Chpt 9
- Sometimes the townspeople came to stand on the bridge and watch the struggle as the carp splashed their way back to the pools from which the flood had uprooted them.†
Chpt 9
- Some of the town kids, not knowing it was bad luck to catch the carp, would scoop them out of the low waters and toss the fish upon the sand bars.†
Chpt 9
- There the poor carp would flop until they dried out and died, then later the crows would swoop down and eat them.†
Chpt 9
- Some people in town would even buy the carp for a nickel and eat the fish!†
Chpt 9
- It was a beautiful sight to behold, the struggle of the carp to regain his abode before the river dried to a trickle and trapped him in strange pools of water.†
Chpt 9
- What was beautiful about it was that you knew that against all the odds some of the carp made it back and raised their families, because every year the drama was repeated.†
Chpt 9
- "No," I answered, "I do not fish for carp.†
Chpt 9
- There was only one thing that was withheld from them, and that was the fish called the carp.†
Chpt 9
- To stay alive they finally caught the carp of the river and ate them.†
Chpt 9
- Instead, they turned the people into carp and made them live forever in the waters of the river—" The setting sun glistened on the brown waters of the river and turned them to bronze.†
Chpt 9
- "Do you know about the golden carp?" he asked in a whisper.†
Chpt 9
- When the gods had turned the people into carp, the one kind god who loved the people grew very sad.†
Chpt 9
- So he went to the other gods and told them that he chose to be turned into a carp and swim in the river where he could take care of his people.†
Chpt 9
- "The golden carp," I said to myself, "a new god?"†
Chpt 9
- Is the golden carp still here?†
Chpt 9
- If the golden carp was a god, who was the man on the cross?†
Chpt 9
- This summer Cico will find you and take you to the golden carp—" And with a swish of branches he disappeared into the dusk.†
Chpt 9
- I wondered if she knew about the golden carp.†
Chpt 9
- The story of the golden carp continued to haunt my dreams.†
Chpt 10
- My only other avenue to the golden carp would be Cico, so every day I fished along the river, and watched and waited.†
Chpt 10
- I guess it was then that he decided to trust me with the secret of the golden carp.†
Chpt 11
- "Samuel told you about the golden carp," he said.†
Chpt 11
- "Have you ever fished for carp?" he asked.†
Chpt 11
- "Do you want to see the golden carp?" he whispered.†
Chpt 11
- "Do you believe the golden carp is a god?" he asked.†
Chpt 11
- I was sorry because now he would not take me to see the golden carp.†
Chpt 11
- Swear by the cross of the church that you will never hunt or kill a carp.†
Chpt 11
- I was excited about seeing the magical golden carp.†
Chpt 11
- "The golden carp will be swimming down the creek today," Cico whispered.†
Chpt 11
- I forgot about seeing the golden carp.†
Chpt 11
- Does he know about the golden carp?†
Chpt 11
- "The magic people all know about the coming day of the golden carp," Cico answered.†
Chpt 11
- The golden carp will be swimming soon—" We slipped out of the coolness of the garden into the hot, dusty street.†
Chpt 11
- Does the gang know about the golden carp?†
Chpt 11
- The golden carp will come through there.†
Chpt 11
- "The golden carp will scare him up," Cico whispered.†
Chpt 11
- But the real king is the golden carp, Tony.†
Chpt 11
- We sat for a long time, waiting for the golden carp.†
Chpt 11
- Then the golden carp came.†
Chpt 11
- I had expected to see a carp the size of a river carp, perhaps a little bigger and slightly orange instead of brown.†
Chpt 11
- I had expected to see a carp the size of a river carp, perhaps a little bigger and slightly orange instead of brown.†
Chpt 11
- "Behold the golden carp, Lord of the waters—" I turned and saw Cico standing, his spear held across his chest as if in acknowledgement of the presence of a ruler.†
Chpt 11
Definitions:
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(1)
(carp as in: carped incessantly) to repeatedly complain -- typically about unimportant things
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(2)
(meaning too common or rare to warrant focus) More commonly, carp is used as a noun to describe a common freshwater fish.