The few species of flying gurnard are much alike, ranging widely in the tropical seas, and having a slight power of flight.
Petalopteryx syriacus, an extinct flying gurnard found in the Cretaceous of Mount Lebanon, is an ally of Cephalacanthus.
By Parkhurst there is a pleasant way to Gurnard Bay, the nearest bathing-place on the coast.
The northern shore, with its muddy flats and crumbling banks, has no attraction for the many, till the sands ofGurnard Bay bring us round to the far stretched esplanade of Cowes.
Its bathing is not everywhere safe in the currents of the Solent; and to pick out a sandy oasis on the rough beach one must go eastward towards Gurnard Bay.
In the environs of Cowes are several other genteel residences: MOOR-HOUSE is distinguished by its Gothic pinnacles and commanding station: and near Gurnard Bay is a pretty retired seat, appropriately called WOOD-VALE.
In the time of King Charles II, woods were so extensive, that it is recorded, a squirrel might have run on the tops of the trees from Gurnard to Carisbrooke, and in several other parts for leagues together.
Anglers of our time have proved that Tench croak like frogs; Herrings cry like mice; Gurnards grunt like hogs; and some say the Gurnard makes a noise like a cuckoo, from which he takes one of his country names.
Deslongchamps has published, in the "Transactions of the Linnaean Society of Normandy," 1842, a curious account of the movements of the gurnard at the bottom of the sea.
A gurnard, as the European red gurnard (Trigla pini).
The result is to bring up the Bembridge limestone at various points along the north shore, where it forms conspicuous ledges--Hamstead Ledge at the mouth of the Newtown river, ledges in Thorness Bay, and Gurnard Ledge.
The gray gurnard (Trigla gurnardus), so called on account of the creaking noise it makes after being taken.
A name given to the crooner, crowner, or gray gurnard (Trigla gurnardus).
A name for the yellow gurnard among the northern fishermen.
After giving a number of names, Mr. Norman proceeds: “And lastly, the parasite from the Common Gurnard is a species new to Britain.
Here is the manner in which he once caught Bloch’s Gurnard (Trigla Blochii).
Large numbers of various species of Gurnard are brought in by our trawlers and sell readily, especially the Sapphirine Gurnard, or Tub-fish (T.
Whiting, haddock, and gurnard come up with rapidity, varied by an occasional cod, skate, or bream.
Mackerel is what you hope for; gurnard you will put up with; pollack will not be caught in any numbers so far from the shore.
In the British seas the commonest species is the Grey Gurnard (Trigla gurnardus), a silvery-grey fish, more or less clouded with brown and speckled with black.
Whilst in the water, the colours of the Red Gurnard are almost inconceivably brilliant and beautiful, particularly in the broad glare of sunshine, as they then vary, in the most pleasing manner, with every motion of the fish.
The Red Gurnard has fins and body of a bright red colour; and the head is large, and covered with strong bony plates.
The Grey Gurnard (Trigla gurnardus) usually measures from one to two feet in length.
Angra des Ruives in English isGurnard Bay, and this name was given to it by the Portuguese because of the quantity of this fish found there.
Gurnard wheeled and fixed me critically with his eye-glass.
But that was precisely it--it would "shake out some of the supporters," and give Gurnard his patent excuse.
Gurnard has pretty well nobbled their old party press, so they've got to begin all over again.
I was so moved by one thing and another that I hardly noticed that Gurnard had come into the room.
In that way she might very well talk allegorically of herself as in alliance with Gurnard against Fox and Churchill.
We fight for our own hands," she answered, "I shall throw Gurnard over when he's pulled the chestnuts out of the fire.
Mr. Gurnard may differ from me in points, but don't you see?
You may even tell him, if you like, what I and Gurnard are going to do.
Gurnard was quite hidden from me by table ornaments; the Duc de Mersch glowed with light and talked voluminously, as if he had for years and years been starved of human society.
I wondered vaguely what the devil Mr. Gurnard could have to say in the matter, and then Miss Granger herself came into the room.
You will remember that, in those days, Gurnard was only the dark horse of the ministry.
Mr. Gurnard was said to recommend it for financial reasons, the Duc to be eager, Churchill to hang back unaccountably.
It is a matter of a chess-board; and Gurnard is the only piece that remains.
As for Fox and Gurnard and Churchill, the Foreign Minister, who really was a sympathetic character and did stand for political probity, she might be uttering allegorical truths, but I was not interested in them.
I saw the three figures go through the attitudes of conversation--she very animated, de Mersch grotesquely empressé, Gurnard undisguisedly saturnine.
And while the gurnard has no less than six of these pro-legs, the American land fish has only a single pair with which to accomplish his arduous journeys.
The Perlon or Sapharine Gurnard is a large species, handsomely marked with green and blue hues.
The Red Gurnard is commonly found in the Mediterranean.
The buoy was reached, and the line once more hauled aboard, this time with a grey gurnard on the first hook.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gurnard" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
