First, her husband making off, leaving a good business-a very good business here, as a master of a lot of herring boats, with a share in one of the big curing houses where the bloaters are the best to be had in the trade.
"Little Miss Joy"
Emma Marshall
In answer to the loud summons, a red-faced little man opened the door and let out into the night a smell of bloaters and tea-the smell that pervades all Farlingford at six o'clock in the evening.
"The Last Hope"
Henry Seton Merriman
There was a lovely smell o' hot tea from a tin he 'ad in one 'and, and a lovelier smell still from a plate o' bread and butter and bloaters in the other.
"Short Cruises"
W.W. Jacobs