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Example sentences for "fishes"

Lexicographically close words:
fisheries; fisherman; fishermen; fishers; fishery; fishhook; fishhooks; fishing; fishings; fishlike
  1. Which being done, the Emperours maiestie and certaine of his noble men went to the Metropolitane his house to dinner, where of delicate fishes and good drinks there was no lacke.

  2. There are also a fishes teeth, which fish is called a Morsse.

  3. A whole tank of it stands on a table covered with a cloth; and lemons like blunted fishes blob in the yellow water.

  4. The tiny ones that clung wriggled like fishes caught on a line.

  5. And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and every fowl of the air, and upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea, into your hand are they delivered.

  6. O hunters of the forests and snarers of the fishes of the streams!

  7. The food of this Guillemot is largely composed of the fry of the herring and the coal-fish, but other small fishes are eaten, as are crustaceans, and various marine insects.

  8. Upon our coasts its food consists principally of small fishes and crustaceans.

  9. The Cormorant, however, never fishes like the Gannets and the Terns, by a headlong plunge from the sky.

  10. The food of the Razorbill is largely composed of fry, especially of the herring, but many other small fishes are captured, together with crustaceans and other small marine creatures.

  11. I've been looking out and expecting loaves and fishes long enough.

  12. You and sister Tessie are big enough to be good while in the tub without toys," so Tottie was the only one in the house who made believe that the bathtub was the big ocean and her little toy silver fishes real live ones!

  13. After this Tottie wanted to take a bath all the time, for Mother bought some toy fishes and Tottie didn't have to make believe very hard.

  14. Perhaps the little fishes thought she was a big fat giantess.

  15. Cooks could make artificial birds and fishes in default of the real ones.

  16. An order of fishes including a vast number of freshwater species such as the carp, loach, chub, etc.

  17. The etheostomoids are small and often bright-colored fishes inhabiting the fresh waters of North America.

  18. They contain, besides plants and numerous invertebrates, the bony portions of many large and remarkable fishes of extinct groups.

  19. The fishes which swam there glided about me like birds in the air.

  20. Then he told her of storm and of calm, of strange fishes in the deep beneath them, and of what the divers had seen there.

  21. The large amber windows were open, and the fish swam in, just as the swallows fly into our houses when we open the windows; only the fishes swam up to the princesses, ate out of their hands, and allowed themselves to be stroked.

  22. Custant has sent us a present of a magnificent tench which he caught this morning, much to the chagrin of Bianconi, who fishes all day long, and never catches anything.

  23. That's their stock-in-trade; and just you wait and see if you dinna get the ploughshares and the fishes afore the month's out.

  24. Ilka ane o' thae young ministers has a sermon about looms for weaving congregations, and a second about beating swords into ploughshares for country places, and another on the great catch of fishes for fishing villages.

  25. Miles, and to the fishes of Michigan, and contain inquiries about gulls and eggs.

  26. I begun to think the miracle of loaves and fishes was comin' to pass again.

  27. When I saw the fishes out in your yard I thought about it and I thought I would come in and see if you had the right kind.

  28. It was at the Sandwich Isles that the greatest number of fishes and Crustacea were collected: of the former the greatest variety, and the most remarkable, were kept in the fish preserves of the royal family.

  29. All these crinoids were like star-fishes on stalks, and of the existing forms, Pentacrinus still passes the whole of its life, and Comatula its youth, in a stalked condition.

  30. The last class of vertebrates is, as we have seen, constituted by the fishes, which are fishes properly so called.

  31. But there are many animals which are familiarly and improperly spoken of as "Fishes," but which are even more below true fishes than whales and porpoises are above them.

  32. They are fishes of parasitic habits and of relatively inferior structure.

  33. A mystical interpretation was also given to the loaves and fishes multiplied by Christ for the feeding of the multitude, as indicating the sevenfold gifts of the Spirit and the dispensations of the law and the gospel.

  34. Through the calm, clear water Hiawatha saw the fishes swimming to and fro.

  35. When the morning broke there could be seen through the clear waters of the Sognefjord the corpses of slain chieftains lying outstretched on the bottom, while the fishes swam around them.

  36. So little, however, is the want of this understood, that, of the thousands of stuffed fishes exhibited in the Fisheries Exhibition, I looked in vain for one with unshrivelled lips or orbital ridges.

  37. That all this was practicable is now proved by the present state of the Leicester Museum, provisionally finished in its general zoological collections so far as the birds and fishes are concerned.

  38. Cases for fishes are best glazed by "sprung" or semi-convex glass for the fronts, which often does away with the necessity for glass ends, and gives also a more artistic and finished appearance.

  39. This formula appears to be one of the non-alcoholic preservatives most suited for fishes in preparation jars.

  40. The fins of fishes may be repaired with thin tissue paper, or, if finless by accident--"ware cat!

  41. The skin of fishes also, which, when dry, shrinks away above the eye and around the mouth and lips, should have these parts replaced by wax before colouring, in the manner practised on the new specimens in the Leicester Museum.

  42. Beautiful models of the thicker-skinned fishes maybe made by this method, but rapidity of execution is a sine quâ non.

  43. Having been enabled to give him some eyes of rare animals and fishes (whales and sharks), he showed me the process which is now fully explained in the following extract from the British Medical Journal of Jan.

  44. Large fishes must have small cuts made in the walls of the abdomen to allow the fluid to properly penetrate.

  45. Fishes are now and then mounted in halves, should one side be very badly mangled; the effect is not very good, however, and should not be resorted to but in extreme cases.


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