Come, look alive, I don't want to flounder about in the water till night time.
Just the night before she had slapped his face with a flounder to teach him not to neglect going to work.
The proprietors of the News made a tremendous splash with his name; but they only created a quagmire for themselves to flounder in.
Then the Flounder came swimming to him and said, "Well what does she want, then?
Now and then we had to flank a slough, or flounder through a quicksand, and sundown still found us pushing along through these bottoms, though we had made fully thirty miles since morning.
The Hassayampa itself flows through a wild and rocky canon, with high precipitous walls on either side; and it was soon apparent, that our only alternative was either to flounder through its quicksands, or retrace our steps to Maricopa Wells.
Adoi theflounder shelled avree for his meriben "Mandy's the krallis of you sar!
Then the flounder shouted for his life, "I'm the king of you all!
Then the flounder came swimming up, and said, "Now then, what does she want?
And the flounder said to him, "Fisherman, listen to me; let me go, I am not a real fish but an enchanted prince.
Then he put him back into the clear water, and the flounder sank to the bottom, leaving a long streak of blood behind him.
We want one," said the wife; "go along with you; the flounder can give us one.
At last down went the line to the bottom of the water, and when he drew it up he found a great flounderon the hook.
The flounder is partial to sheltered coves and quiet bays, preferring bottoms of sand or mud, though sometimes it is found in rocky situations.
We should flounder hopelessly, like the animals, did we not keep ourselves afloat and direct our course by these intellectual devices.
Every few steps he would plunge off into the deep snow, and flounder around again until he had regained the solid footing.
They were determined men who were handling this nasty job, and with set mouths and intense grimness they watched the victim flounder about and then give up in despair.
But dark mists of confusion obscured the light he sought--mists of confusion and seeming impossibility through which he must grope and flounder his way.
Remove the filets from a medium sized flounder and cut each filet in two.
I then proceeded to bone one in the following way: Take a sharp knife and split the flounder right down the middle of the back, then run the knife carefully between the flesh and bones going toward the edge.
To one large flounder put a quart of water, and if you are going to jelly oysters put in their liquor and a little salt.
A flounder is shaped just as if he had been run over by an Atlantic avenue truck.
When the flounder sees food that he wants he falls upon it and holds it down with ease while he devours it.
Didn't they have to flounder in order to arrive at '48 when they floundered much more, but so as to arrive at what should be?
Instead of continuing along the highroad which was broad and beautiful, like a triumphal way, they stray off by little sidepaths and flounder in mud holes.
Never a night he was out spearing flounder but he must choose his place off Enok's shore and beach, and spear such flounder as had been nearest Enok's hand.
The sense in which it was used by me is plain from the context; at least, it would be plain to any one but a fisher for faults, predisposed to carp at some things, to dab at others, and to flounder in all.
Each flounder and plaice lay cold at his heart, As cold as his marble slab; And he thought he felt, in every part, The pincers of scalded crab.
In comparing certain geographical races of Plaice and Flounder the facts seem to suggest that differences of habitat may have something to do with the development of the scales.
Both Plaice and Flounders in the Baltic are much more spiny than in the North Sea, although in the Flounderno sexual difference in this respect has been noted.
The Flounder does not occur in the Arctic, but on the west coast of North America occurs a local form called P.
Freshness of water again will not explain the difference of the structure and distribution of scales in Flounder and Plaice, considering the variety of squamation in fishes confined to fresh water.
A flounder looks like a fish which was originally symmetrical, but which had come to lie flat on its side upon the bottom, whereupon the eye underneath had left its original place to appear on the upper surface.
If this be true, and if in its development a flounder must review its mode of evolution as a species, the young fish ought to be symmetrical; and it actually is.
The flounder was noted as a variant of the fish theme which seemed to be a descendant of a symmetrical ancestor because its structural plan was like that of other bony fishes.
But poor Unfortunate Flounder was too slow, and he felt Little White Fox's sharp teeth close down on him.
But Unfortunate Flounder goes floating around on one side all the time, and looks more like a dead leaf than any member of the fish family.
But just then Unfortunate Flounder learned what an unhappy thing it was to be slow.
They were Unfortunate Flounderand Mr. Salmon Trout.
It frightened Little White Fox so badly that he dropped Unfortunate Flounder back into the river and looked around.
If he makes a misstep, he is precipitated ludicrously into feathery depths through which he must flounder to the nearest timber horse before he can remount.
It amused Dyer to withhold the timely word, so leaving the jobber to flounder between his easy nature and his sense of what should be done.
