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Example sentences for "sculpin"

Lexicographically close words:
scullion; scullions; sculls; sculp; sculped; sculpins; sculpteurs; sculptor; sculptors; sculptress
  1. Sculpin of New York, sole child and heiress of a Yankee who had made millions out of Chewing Gum, chose to forget her position as the wife of a British Peer, and mother of his children, by Jove!

  2. Look in on us after the interment, when Mrs. Sculpin has had time to get accustomed to her mourning.

  3. The way he does this is to cut a little notch in one end of the block with his "sculpin chisel" and make a groove from this across the block.

  4. When we come ashore we had eighteen dogfish, four sculpin and a skate, and Stumpton was the happiest loon in Ostable County.

  5. The other would-be gunners and fishermen were satisfied to slam shot after sandpeeps, or hook a stray sculpin or a hake.

  6. Delighted at this full and unexpected escape from guilt and its consequences, the sculpin embraced his fellow-sculpins with such ecstasy that he fell off from his seat, upon the floor.

  7. How that Sculpin was a-gulpin’ of his tea!

  8. How that Sculpin was a-gulpin’ of his tea!

  9. And the Scallop gave a wallop as they handed him a collop And the Sculpin was a-gulpin’ of his tea,—deary me!

  10. Few of them knew him well; there was only Joe Brazybone, Sculpin Joe, who from babyhood had been his humble and loving servant, and who still clung to him, until that strange affair of the marriage.

  11. Damon, "we had plenty of friendly Injins to do that, and it used to make me laugh to see the yallow raskals sculpin their kin; that's what I call dog eat dog.

  12. As we look at these two, we must own that noblesse oblige in a sense sweeter than we knew, and be glad when young Sculpin invites us to see the family portraits.

  13. So, if Minim Sculpin is a bad young man, he not only shames himself, but he disgraces that illustrious line of ancestors, whose characters are known.

  14. But genius and power are so imperial and universal, that when Minim Sculpin falls, we are grieved not only for him, but for that eternal truth and beauty which appeared in the valor of Sir Shark, and the loveliness of Lady Dorothy.

  15. All that Minim Sculpin does by his own talent is the more radiantly set and ornamented by the family fame.

  16. Sculpin came with his neat little medicine-box under his arm.

  17. Sculpin smiled a smile which seemed to suggest that Dr.

  18. Sculpin counted three grains of white sand into one shell, and three grains of yellow sand into the other shell, with great care.

  19. A sculpin is a specialized fish having many unusual phases of development, as is also a swordfish, which has a highly peculiar structure in the snout.

  20. The little sculpin, or grubby, of the New England coast is Myoxocephalus æneus, and the larger eighteen-spined sculpin is Myoxocephalus octodecimspinosus.

  21. Myoxocephalus bubalis is the European fatherlasher, or proach; the European sculpin is Myoxocephalus scorpius.

  22. In Ascelichthys (rhodorus), a pretty sculpin of the rock-pools of the Oregon region, the ventral fins are wholly lost.

  23. The very similar daddy sculpin of New England is Myoxocephalus grœnlandicus.

  24. Oncocottus quadricornis is the long-horned sculpin of the Arctic Europe, entering the lakes of Russia and British America.

  25. Rheopresbe fujiyamæ is a large river sculpin in Japan.

  26. The Rhamphocottidæ consist of a single little sculpin with a large bony and singularly formed head, found on the Pacific Coast from Sitka to Monterey.

  27. I hope they will think enough of themselves to keep away from my hook this morning," said Kate, philosophically, "and the sculpin too.

  28. Ye see the miser'ble sculpin thought I'd never stop to open the goods, an' it was a chance I did, mind ye!

  29. We looked down the hatchway into the hold, and could see the flounders and sculpin swimming about lazily, and once in a while a little pollock scooted down among them impertinently and then disappeared.

  30. Then I unhappily caught so large a sculpin that it was like pulling up an open umbrella, and after I had thrown him into the hold to keep company with the flounder, our usual good luck seemed to desert us.

  31. If he will, put Sculpin through a course of sprouts, and larn 'im better'n to hook log-chains.

  32. Said affair was between Captain Bastabol Bean, owner and occupant of Sculpin Point, and Mrs. Stashia Buckett, the unlamenting relict of the late Hosea Buckett.

  33. It was about noon that a stable-boy delivered Barnacles at Sculpin Point.

  34. But the lines held up his head and kept his nose pointing straight for the little beach on Sculpin Point, perhaps a quarter of a mile distant.

  35. For the first hour she reiterated, between vast sobs, that Captain Bean was a soulless wretch, that she would never set foot on Sculpin Point, and that she would die there on the sofa rather than ride in such an outlandish rig.

  36. Besides, if I go to Sculpin Point I shall want to come to the village once in a while.

  37. Barnacles was experienced, but a vehicle such as this amphibious product of Sculpin Point he had never before seen.

  38. Barnacles tightened the traces, the sprit-sail did its share, and in an amazingly short time the odd vehicle was spinning toward Sculpin Point at a ten-knot gait.

  39. Sure enough, not fifty yards ahead, the Shell Road turned sharply away from the edge of the beach to make a detour by which Sculpin Point was cut off.

  40. I'll sail over in the dory Monday afternoon," said he, "and take you back with me to Sculpin Point.

  41. He was confidential friend, advising philosopher, and mate of Sculpin Point.


  42. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sculpin" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.