tunny

How To Use tunny In A Sentence

• The king called a tunny and commanded him to take the fisherman on his back and deposit him on a rock near the shore, where the other fishers could see and rescue him. The Science of Fairy Tales An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology
• Little William and Lalee alone examined the two beautiful creatures thus brought within their reach; while Snowball and the sailor, rapidly readjusting the baits upon their hooks, that had been slightly disarranged by the teeth of the _tunnies_, -- for the albacore is a species of tunny fish, -- once more flung them forth. The Ocean Waifs A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea
• The countless tiny, clear eggs produced by the little tunny drift on the currents and are sometimes concentrated in a relatively small patch of ocean. Giant sharks swarm in waters off Mexico
• The word commonly rendered whales (cetos vel cete) might in my judgment be not improperly translated thynnus or tunny fish, as corresponding with the Hebrew word thaninim. Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1
• After this masterpiece with its tunny fish salads and 'steak risotto' gets knocked down he'll be in Scotland, 'for the melancholia'.
• The most esteemed part of the tunny is the underneath, or "panse. Brittany & Its Byways
• A FISH called a tunny, being pursued by a dolphin, and driven with great violence, not minding which way he went, was thrown by the force of the waves upon a rock, and left there. Original Acrostics on all the States and Presidents of the United States, and Various Other Subjects, Religious, Political, and Personal
• In those days the North Sea was full of tunny - the giant tuna - that were in gorging on shoals of herring and mackerel.
• It sounded absolutely thrilling, totally adrenaline pumping and so, even if I've never held a tunny rod in my own hands, at least those in my family have.
• Some fishes are exclusively carnivorous, as the cartilaginous genus, the conger, the channa or Serranus, the tunny, the bass, the synodon or Dentex, the amia, the sea-perch, and the muraena. The History of Animals