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.
Giggles from a school of sculpins safe hidden somewhere lent further aggravation to the dilemma.
The fish began coming in lively, from little harbour pollock to sculpins with monster heads and attenuated bodies, and cunners, that stole the bait almost as fast as the boys could throw overboard.
We'll engage both of you at eighteen sculpins a week," answered Henry Burns.
Sculpins and lampreys give place to minnows, loaches, and chubs.
The rough prickles of the filefishes and some sculpins are not placoid, but are reduced or modified ctenoid scales, scales narrowed and reduced to prickles.
The chief genus of Atlantic sculpins is Myoxocephalus, containing large marine species, in structure much like the species of Cottus.
It has the ventral rays I, 5, although almost in all the other sculpins the rays are reduced to I, 3 or I, 4.
Vellitor centropomus of Japan is remarkable among sculpins for its compressed body and long snout.
In the Tamagawa are many fishes: shining minnows in the white ripples, dark catfishes in the pools and eddies, and little sculpins and gobies lurking under the stones.
Still more numerous and varied are the sculpins of the North Pacific, Myoxocephalus polyacanthocephalus being the best known and most widely diffused.
The genus Zesticelus contains small soft-bodied sculpins from the depths of the North Pacific.
The great family of Cottidæ or sculpins is one especially characteristic of the northern seas, where a great variety of species is found.
The Harpagiferidæ, naked, with the opercle armed with spines, and resemble sculpins even more closely than do the Nototheniidæ.
In sculpins of this type the liparids, or sea-snails, may have had their origin.
In addition to the polar cod, a few sculpins are also caught, and occasionally the two species of Lycodes (L.
At these cracks the natives frequently catch considerable numbers of Polar cod (Boreogadus saida) and small sculpins (Cottus quadricornis and C.
They seemed to catch more sculpins than anything else, and though sculpins were wonderful looking creatures they were not, Patsey explained, very good eating; flounders and eels were better.
They swim at a much greater depth than mackerel usually do, and, while I was busy with one line, the other had sunk some twelve or fifteen feet down where the sculpins dwelt.
Sculpins and flounders were caught and by this time the mist began lifting.
By the time the boys and girls returned from their bait fishing, with a lot of sculpins and flounders, the four traps were ready.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sculpins" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
