The rest of the day is called afternoon; the very sound of which fine old Saxon word conveys a feeling of the lee bulwarks and a nap; a summer sea--soft breezes creeping over it; dreamy dolphinsgliding in the distance.
Dolphins were sporting and flashing around it, and one white bird was hovering over the top of the pole.
Thus a temple or a house is represented by a column, or two columns supporting a pediment, a wood or grove by a single tree, water by two dolphins swimming in the lower part of the design, and so on.
Besides the ornaments above mentioned the patterns on the cornices include palmettes and floral scrolls, dolphins and Gryphons.
Then she began to hear the words all about her, and she found that the little sea green man, and the fishes, small and great, and the dolphins and the old constable sword fish were all singing the same song, each in his own way.
A base Wallon, to win the Dolphins grace, Thrust Talbot with a Speare into the Back, Whom all France, with their chiefe assembled strength, Durst not presume to looke once in the face Bedf.
Herald, conduct me to the Dolphins Tent, To know who hath obtain'd the glory of the day Char.
Harke, harke, the Dolphins drumme, a warning bell, Sings heauy Musicke to thy timorous soule, And mine shall ring thy dire departure out.
And so the conflict being ended and all the fishing sport done, the dolphins fall to spoil and eat those which they killed in the first shock and encounter.
Audubon's remarks about the habits of dolphins are especially interesting, and will be read with pleasure by everybody who cares for 'the sea and all that in them is.
Dolphins abound in the Gulf of Mexico and the neighbouring seas, and are constantly to be seen chasing flying fish, which are their food.
Howbeit, be the wind in what quarter soever, the dolphins resort thither flock-meal, sooner than a man would think, for to assist them in their fishing.
Indeed, the stories to which dolphinsgive rise are many and strange.
The dolphins were probably ornaments attached to some piece of furniture.
The three blood red stars were now blotted out of the reconstruction calendar; like the painted dolphins in the circus at Antioch, they had been taken down one by one.
Two more like the painted dolphins in the circus at Antioch remained to be taken down, one by one.
That Dolphins are crooked, is not only affirmed by the hand of the Painter, but commonly conceived their natural and proper figure; which is not only the opinion of our times, but seems the belief of elder times before us.
And answerably hereto may we behold them differently bowed in medalls, and the Dolphins of Tarus and Fulius do make another flexure from that of Commodus and Agrippa.
Both dolphins and dugongs occur in the Red Sea, porpoises and dolphins in the Mediterranean; so that the "Mosaic writer" may well have been acquainted with them.
Neptune poured water from a shell which he held in his hand, and the dolphins spouted great streams.
It was a rather imposing fountain, with a Neptune in bronze riding a seahorse, with nymphs on dolphins in attendance.
By dolphins now The woods are tenanted, who furious smite The boughs, and shake the strong oak by their blows.
There must then be contests between dolphins and sharks, contests in which the dolphins are worsted, in spite of their superiority.
But Araros in his Campylion has used the word =karida= with the penultima circumflexed and long-- The strangely bent carides did leap forth Like dolphins into the rope-woven vessel.
One of the Dolphins replied, "We would far rather be destroyed in our battle with each other than admit any interference from you in our affairs.
May't please your Maiestie to giue vs leaue Freely to render what we haue in charge: Or shall we sparingly shew you farre off The Dolphins meaning, and our Embassie King.
We are no Tyrant, but a Christian King, Vnto whose grace our passion is as subiect As is our wretches fettred in our prisons, Therefore with franke and with vncurbed plainnesse, Tell vs theDolphins minde Amb.
Then he sets me to draft out a pair of iron gates, to take, as he said, the taste of my naughtydolphins out of my mouth.
Send those dolphins along and I'll mail you a check.
Roald told the story of the dolphins and said: "The price that the architect thought was too high was three hundred and sixty dollars.
The room was empty, totally bare, itsdolphins frisking alone in their placid sea.
They rounded the last curving steps, and the ornate vista of the queen's bedroom spread before them, its blue dolphins cavorting in their pastel sea.
The frescoes over the alabaster arches showed bold blue dolphins pirouetting in a pastel sea dotted with starfish and sea urchins.
Those dolphins that enter the mouth of the Nile, did not escape the observation of the ancients.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dolphins" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
