Tunnies

Word TUNNIES
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Tuna.

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The word "tunnies" in example sentences

Migrant pelagic include tunnies Thunnus spp., smalltooth sawfish Pristis pectinata guitarfish Rhinobatos spp., and smooth hammerhead shark Sphyrna zygaena. ❋ Unknown (2009)

“But now the cast hath been made and the net hath been widely extended, And in the night the tunnies will dart through the moon-lighted waters.” ❋ Herodotus (2003)

About the time of hibernation a few tunnies or other hibernating fishes are caught while swimming about, in particularly warm localities and in exceptionally fine weather, or on nights of full moon; for the fishes are induced (by the warmth or the light) to emerge for a while from their lair in quest of food. ❋ Unknown (2002)

In the spring these tunnies get in motion and proceed towards the coast, coupling and breeding, and the females are now caught full of spawn. ❋ Unknown (2002)

The more weakly an animal is the greater hurry will it be in to migrate on account of extremes of temperature, either hot or cold; thus the mackerel migrates in advance of the tunnies, and the quail in advance of the cranes. ❋ Unknown (2002)

Pontus in autumn along with the young tunnies, and enter Pontus in the spring as pelamyds. ❋ Unknown (2002)

Vermilion-finned and with eyes of bossy gold, the tunnies went by in shoals, but he heeded them not. ❋ Unknown (1998)

The tunnies, torn and battered against submerged rocks, succumbed not long afterward, as did the squid. ❋ May, Julian, 1931- (1981)

And the tunnies themselves were chasing flying squid, and the squid in their turn had pursued a shoal of silver sardines that had been browsing upon the microscopic organisms of pelagic plankton. ❋ May, Julian, 1931- (1981)

But from intellectual feasts like that, I am doomed here to the most rigorous abstinence; and, to make up for it, I am forced to throw myself on the mullets, sardines, sprats, and tunnies, with the wines of Cyprus and ❋ Various (N/A)

Again we may read of the periodic migration of the tunnies, of the great net or 'madrague' in which they are captured, and of the watchmen, the θυννοσκοποι {thynnoskopoi}, the 'hooers' of our ancient ❋ Various (N/A)

Green, bursting figs, and tunnies steeped in brine -- ❋ Various (N/A)

PALERMO (284,000) and MESSINA (150,000), in Sicily, are the chief ports for the export of Italian fruits, and also of Italian fish (anchovies, tunnies, etc.). ❋ Various (N/A)

One day at San Pedro, where he angle for tunnies, he meets with ‘Thief of Bagdad’ company. ❋ Unknown (1928)

And that very moment, as the endless possibilities of things would have it, one, leaning on the rail, cried out that there were tunnies. ❋ Unknown (1922)

Green bursting figs, and tunnies steep'd in brine; ❋ Unknown (1919)

Finally they agreed to ask advice from the tunnies of the sea, and from the doves of the air; they also went to the earthquake, who said that it was necessary for them to marry, so that the world might be peopled. ❋ Various (1906)

Prodicus engages him and has a conference with him on the profound question of "whether the tunnies or the mullets are better to-day, or will there be fresh eels?" ❋ William Stearns Davis (1903)

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