But, as a rule, only the fishermen's boats ran in and out between Porgy Point and Mullet Head.
When the boys came out to play, Georgy Porgy ran away.
The porgyis a short, deep, and compressed fish, rather elliptical in outline, its depth being nearly half of its length, and with the back elevated over the nape.
The general outline of the grass porgy is very similar to that of the saucer-eye and little-head porgies, though the back is not quite so elevated; the profile is unevenly curved, being quite convex in front of the eye.
THE GRASS PORGY (Calamus arctifrons) This pretty porgy was first described by Goode and Bean, in 1882, from Pensacola, Florida.
THE JOLT-HEAD PORGY (Calamus bajonado) This is the largest and most abundant of the porgies.
While catching porgies at a lively rate one day I asked my boatman, a Bahama negro, why the big porgy was called "jolt-head.
The porgy is mentioned, like the cunner, in deference to the ladies and the rising generation of anglers, to whom it is fair game on the summer excursions to the seashore.
When the boys came out to play, Georgy-porgy ran away.
I should think that some of the futile, laggard messenger-boy ghosts that one reads about nowadays would blush with shame before the wholesome raillery of the porgy fisherman.
The last state census accords to Pocock Island a population of 311, mostly engaged in theporgy fisheries.
To this day, they are a little sensitive upon the subject, feeling evidently that if the matter got abroad, it might injure the sale of the really excellent porgy oil which is the product of their sole manufacturing interest.
He has embarked in the porgy oil business, and his operations already rival that of Hodgeson, his old partner in the Mary Emmeline and the Prettyboat.
Then he fished the waters with a will; and it was but a scurvy remark of Flashy Joe, who said that "it was about an even chance whether he took porgy or porgy took him.
The average weight of the porgy of these banks may be set down at about a pound.
These, however, were readily removed, and Georgy Porgy fell to with excellent appetite.
And what does such a very small Georgy Porgy want so much money for?
I don't know yet," answered Georgy Porgy with a shake of his curls.
Georgy Porgyhad only time enough to give Puss the pie and pudding.
When the boys came out to play Georgy Porgy ran away And after him came a number of boys in hot pursuit.
It was lucky for me that Georgy Porgy happened to come my way.
The Chopa spina, or pinfish, Lagodon rhomboides, is a little porgywith notched incisors, exceedingly common on our South Atlantic coast.
Of these the bajonado or jolt-head porgy (Calamus bajonado) is largest, most common and dullest in color.
Very similar to the porgy is the famous red tai or akadai of Japan (Pagrus major), a fish so highly esteemed as to be, with the rising sun and the chrysanthemum, a sort of national emblem.
We stood on the deck and watched the porgy steamer come in and tie up, too late for that day's market.
Ten or a dozen Gloucester vessels were bunched together, and one porgy steamer--that is, built for porgy or menhaden fishing, but just now trying for mackerel like the rest of us.
And this other crowd--the porgy steamer's--did not have that look.
There's theporgy steamer's boat, too, after the same school.
We were coming up on the porgy steamer then and you should have seen his eyes when they looked from the rail to the deck of his vessel and from the deck again to aloft.
It was pretty well on to daybreak when the porgy steamer got up abreast of us and after a while worked by.
Where's the steam trawler, the porgy boat, we saw yesterday?
I remember the porgy steamer had cut in ahead and given their boat a long start for a school.
Noticing me he said, "There's that porgy steamer that we beat out for that school the other day overhauling us now.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "porgy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
