Who, with white fingers for her comb, Sleeks her blue hair, and from its curls Showers slimminnows and pale pearls, And hollow music of the foam.
When he looked down and saw how the water was so nearly gone from them that the trout and the minnows had hardly enough in which to live, he was so surprised that he kept saying over and over to himself: "Fo' the lan's sake!
There was just a little, teeny, weeny stream of water trickling down the middle of it, with here and there a tiny pool in which frightened trout and minnows were crowded.
One of the most interesting of sights is to see one of the schools of minnows that fairly abound in Lake Tahoe.
He eyed a school of minnows that were swimming in the shoals and looked again at his bobber.
While he had been thinking of Oregon, the bass must have started feeding for the minnows were more alert now.
The minnows in the shallow edges of the pool were quiet, therefore nothing had been chasing them for a while and it was Joe's guess that the fish wouldn't bite well today.
If the bass were feeding, the minnows would be more nervous and alert.
In the minnows and suckers horny excrescences are also developed on head, body, or fins, to be lost after the deposition of the spawn.
When the fishing is over the ayu are preserved, the ring is taken off from the bird's neck, and the zako or minnows are thrown to him for his share.
This is the purpose of the sword-shaped anal fin in many top-minnows (Paeciliidae), the fin itself being placed in advance of its usual position.
In the sharks and rays the parasites occur mainly in the gall-ducts, in the minnows within the gill cavity and epidermis, and in the higher fishes mainly but not exclusively in the same regions.
In the little pools frightened minnows were darting about.
By this time, the Laughing Brook had stopped laughing, and down in the Smiling Pool there was hardly water enough for the minnows to feel safe a minute.
The minnows and suckers are ever preyed upon by sunfishes, bass and the like, and to escape them evidently sought retreat in the alkaline water, which was too much disliked by their enemies for them to follow.
In its mountain streams we find such fishes as the trout, darters, minnows and suckers.
After wandering on for some time, he found a quiet pool dammed in by stones, and here he dipped for the minnows that darted about in the clear brown water.
We can catch minnows and sail our boats from here now," said young Franklin as he looked with pride on the triumphs of his plan.
This caused him to build the little wharf in the soft marsh whence the boys might catch minnows and sail their boats.
The boy picks out the chubs and minnows and throws them to one bird and then another.
In the Tamagawa are many fishes: shining minnowsin the white ripples, dark catfishes in the pools and eddies, and little sculpins and gobies lurking under the stones.
The mud-minnows are small, sluggish, carnivorous fishes living in the mud at the bottom of cold, clear streams and ponds.
Nothing is more common than to find a small bluefish of six or eight inches in length under a school of minnows making continual dashes and captures among them.
If you do that and are very quiet, the Minnows will swim to where you are, the Mud Turtles will waddle out on the logs in the sunshine, and you may even see a Crayfish walking backward along the sand.
The Minnows didn't hurt the Tadpoles, but they made fun of them, and even the smallest Minnow would swim away if a Tadpole tried to play with him.
So if you will try to be just as good Minnows as you can, we will let the little Bullheads and Suckers do their own growing up.
All but one of the youngMinnows swam quickly away to do as she had told them to.
The Minnows said they could not bear the looks of the Adders--they had such ugly mouths and such quick motions.
She slept a long time, and then the whole school of young Minnows came to look for her.
He had the beautiful scarlet coloring on the under part of his body which Father Minnows wear in the summer-time.
Remember that if you pick up a Turtle or catch Minnows in a net, you must not leave the Turtle on his back or keep any water-breathing people, like the Minnows, in the air.
You know there are some questions which fishes cannot answer, and some which Oxen cannot answer, and some which nobody can answer; and when the Mother Minnow told the young Minnows what she did, she had nothing more to tell.
But there are some young Minnows who never will be satisfied, and who tease, and tease, and tease, and tease.
I have seen a small boy with an earthworm at the end of a piece of thread pull out thirty to forty minnows in as many minutes.
What are the scientific names of those minnows which have any?
Do you mean to say that the twelve banded minnows which I sent are undescribed, or only one?
We followed them up and down until they finally seemed to pay little attention to us, and how interesting it was to watch them diving in the water for bugs and minnows to satisfy their hunger!
Several times we saw them bring their prey, small minnows or mollusca, to the surface and swallow it.
Surely this stately bird should not be exterminated; its chief diet is minnows and small fry, fish rejected by the angler except for use as bait.
Even then the liver diet must be varied by feeding minnows from September until the bass goes into winter quarters.
Minnows left in the pond all winter will breed and so furnish fry on which the young bass can feed the next summer.
To his dismay he found the pool already occupied by the blue heron family who were wading about upon their long, stilt-like legs for minnows or crawfish.
He skirted a deep ravine, then crossed the brook where he paused to dip his black snout into the bubbles, scattering a shoal of silvery minnows leaping and playing in the water.
Between twelve and eighteen years the interests of a boy are general ones, and reach from the catching of tadpoles and minnows to finding God in the stars.
The common method of capturing minnows is to use a sweep net, but it takes several people to handle one properly and for our own use the drop net method will probably supply us with all the bait that we need.
Illustration: An excellent device for catching minnows] The simplest way to catch minnows is with a drop net.
In trolling with them it will make but little difference whether dead or alive, but for still fishing the minnows must not only be alive, but, to attract the fish, lively as well.
And as for fishing for minnows ourselves, my dear boy, we should have been less bewildered if you had asked us to fish for a mermaid!
Well, but amongst these minnow- fishers there was one who fished with an air that made the minnows look larger than salmons.
I think the little boy is right after his own way: it was to fish for minnows that he came out, poor child, not to hear about iguanodons and water-kelpies.
All the time she was changing she was thinking: "I only hope thoseminnows are still there.
The summer sojourners, too, had come to have a great love for the happy, carefree Tillie, who caught their minnows and helped to launch their boats.
The minnows were there still, flashing in the sunlight.
Seems a shame," said Florence, as she helped scoop the minnows into one of the waiting buckets.
Bluff had discovered a place where minnows were very plentiful, and hence they could be assured of a good haul at any time, with but little exertion.
The Mind of a Minnow To find solid ground on which to base an appreciation of the behaviour of fishes, it is necessary to experiment, and we may refer to Miss Gertrude White's interesting work on American minnows and sticklebacks.
The mud-minnows did not show that they perceived either packet, though they swam close by them; the sticklebacks were intrigued at once.
In the course of a few lessons, both minnows and sticklebacks learned to associate particular colours with food, and other associations were also formed.
Because of these evil circumstances the best adaptation was to laugh the whole thing off and say that someone had soused someone else with a pailful of water in which a few "very young" minnows had been caught up.
I think, myself, that they were minnowsand sticklebacks.
When the bottle is tolerably full, a pull at the string brings bottle and Minnows to land.
Trolling in the Tees is not much practised; the difficulty of procuring Minnowsat the precise time when wanted, is I suppose the reason.
Put your Minnows for trolling in tin cases, with partitions for each Minnow with a little bran in each, this method keeps them nice and fresh.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "minnows" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
