All collections of the rosyface shiner were in the Big Caney River system, but at only four stations in this system was it common.
In Big Caney River the longear sunfish shared dominance with the redfin shiner (Notropis umbratilis) at almost every station.
The shiner was not found in any stream west of the Big Caney system in my collections.
Widespread occurrence of the bigeye shiner in this area seems surprising.
This shiner was most abundant in shallow, flowing water in the Arkansas River; in backwaters, where Gambusia affinis prevailed, N.
This isolated record for the golden shiner consisted of nine specimens collected on June 6 in Timber Creek, a tributary of the Walnut River.
The red shiner was taken in every stream surveyed.
In the Arkansas River the red shiner consistently made up 20 per cent to 25 per cent of the catch.
The redfin shiner flourished in all the streams surveyed except the Arkansas and Walnut Rivers.
In the Arkansas River smaller relative numbers of this shiner were obtained.
At station W-1 the plains shinerconstituted 20 per cent of the fish taken.
Highest concentrations of the bluntface shiner were found close to the mouths of two tributaries of Big Caney River: Rock Creek and Otter Creek.
The red-finned shiner is also probably a mobile species.
The red-finned shiner occurs most often in pools but is also taken in other areas, is pelagic, and probably is a mobile species.
The decrease in abundance of the red shiner may be partially due to an increase in the numbers of other species that are well adapted to conditions of permanent flow.
Notropis stramineus# (Cope) Sand Shiner The sand shiner was taken rarely in the Neosho and commonly in the Marais des Cygnes in 1952.
The red shiner is pelagic in habit and occurs primarily in pools, though it frequently inhabits adjacent riffles.
Therefore, it is not surprising to find the red shiner in widely varying positions of relative and absolute abundance.
I don't believe that Shinerever had a sleigh-ride in his life--Never; not once.
I wonder whatShiner would say if he could see 'em.
I only found him last night, and tried to persuade him to join the Lily with me, but he'd still a shiner or two in his locker, and he couldn't make up his mind to come till the last had gone.
The shiner or red-fin has much larger scales than the chub.
While the shiner is not the largest, it is almost everywhere one of the most abundant brook fishes.
While they were dressing, Fred almost got in a fight with Shiner because the latter called him "Ginger.
He soon had the truth out of Sparrow and Shiner about the long-forgotten fight in "bloody corner.
It was true that such chaps as Pee Wee, and the Mouser, as well as Shiner and Howell Purdy, were rather skeptical about the value of membership in the school secret society.
Shiner and Harry Moore have the beds on your other side.
Fred was yelling his battle-cry like a crazy boy, and Shiner and Sparrow were scarcely less excited.
Shiner and Sparrow had been as mum as Fred and Bobby.
Howell Purdy and Shiner were set, one on either side of the doorway, where they whispered to those who passed: "Poguey fight in the gym at nine.
Fred managed to untangle his own line, and in doing so he shook the shiner out of the branches.
Shiner came to him and whispered, at bedtime, that there would be a chance to "pull off" the fight the next noontime after dinner.
The shiner dropped off the hook and rested in a crotch of the branch.
Be ready," and Shiner went off whistling, evidently feeling his importance in the matter.
He andShiner and Mouser proceeded along the beach.
Shiner had whispered his bright idea to Bobby and some of the others.
He struck the floor before he was half awake and landed in his bare feet upon a set of "jacks" that Shiner had conveniently dropped on the rug.
Don't see much to get excited about," remarked Shiner disappointedly.
Shiner had been invited to go for an automobile ride by a friend of his family, who was staying for a few days at Rockledge.
Golden Shiner proceeded to fill his minnow bucket with lively minnows, using for the purpose an umbrella-like folding net.
But the Shiner was equal to "his tricks and his manners," and soon had him in the landing-net.
Golden Shiner was not slow to perceive the force of the Doctor's arguments and held his peace.
The Doctor, lightly equipped with only rod, fly-book, and creel, sometimes relieved the Shiner by toting his minnow bucket or minnow net.
From a hilltop you can see a fish leap in almost any part; for not a pickerel or shiner picks an insect from this smooth surface but it manifestly disturbs the equilibrium of the whole lake.
Those village worms are quite too large; a shiner may make a meal off one without finding the skewer.
Shiner in full stride made a swift grab for his rider's left leg, and his rider with equal swiftness kicked him joyously in the nose.
He shifted his saddle to Dolly, a pet little gray mare; not because Shiner was tired, but because there was a hard ride in store for him on the morrow.
When Sheila insisted that she must go, Casey saddled Dolly for Clyde and Shiner for himself.
With a furious curse and a jerk of the bit he wheeled Shiner around, drawing his automatic belt gun.
Finding no answer to the question, he wheeledShiner and headed for home.
Well, Shiner gave in first; he couldn't keep his eyes open any longer.
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Shiner didn't mean that you was to pay it right down," said Ben, quickly.
It's jest as Shiner says," replied Ben, rubbing the end of his nose thoughtfully, as if he believed that gave him more of an air of wisdom.
Me an' Shiner have been livin' round this way ever since we can remember, an' I reckon we always lived so.
Then Shinerjumps up an' dances just as long as he can, an' down comes the curtain.
Yer can sell papers like Shiner does, or yer can get a box, an' go inter the same bizness I'm in.
I snagged one of the little fish and found him to be a beautiful, silvery, flat-sided shiner of unknown species to me.
With a bait like a ballyhoo or a shiner I could get ten bites to one with mullet.
On the other hook the shineris a little, silvery, soft-scaled fellow so gentle that he will come up to the pond side and eat cracker crumbs out of your hand.
Yet for pickerel fishing through the ice the shiner is the king of bait and fortunate indeed are those fishermen who can obtain enough shiners to afford to use them lavishly.
Darting downhill to Shiner came the old and the new of the regiment he had known for years and swore by to the end--Nolan, its oldest sergeant when discharged; Graham, its youngest subaltern when so recently commissioned.
Oh, wonderful things were told of old Shinerand his ranch!
One more look at Shiner and then Shiner settled it.
In those days Shiner dwelt close under the sheltering wing of a sympathetic garrison.
The trembling young Slav at the blacksmith-shop, the blue-lipped boy in the office, and sorely wounded old Shiner were out of the fight.
It is a recorded fact that old Shiner got well of his wound after many long weeks, and his brave boy in much shorter time, and that both were handsomely rewarded.
And Shiner had simply answered: "I've a boy shot and dying at Silver Shield.
Some truth there may have been in some of these tales, yet Shinerhad been a strangely useful man.
The guards at the office burst into a cheer as the two came staggering up to the level, with poor Shiner groaning between them, and then quick work and hot was needed, for the mob came fierce on their trail.
With a leg broken just above the knee, poor Shiner went down, and without so much as a word, with only one glance into each other's eyes, Long Nolan and Geordie swooped down to the rescue.
Minckley and Cross (1959) describe the habitat of the Topeka shiner as pools of clear upland tributaries with slight flow.
We found the Topeka shiner in such habitat in Deer Creek, Strowbridge Creek and Burys Creek.
The sand shinerwas most common in two environments: (1) near the mouth of the Wakarusa where abundance of the species may be attributed to the close proximity of a large population of N.
In our survey the redfin shiner was the most abundant species at several stations, especially at those in the lower and middle portions of tributaries to the mainstream.
The red shiner was ubiquitous, and was the dominant species at a majority of stations.
The plains shiner shows little tendency to move far upstream from the Kansas River, where it is abundant.
To my knowledge, this is the first published record of the ghostshiner from the Kansas River Basin.
The plains shiner occurred only in the lower part of the main stream of the Big Blue River.
Two of the officers took Shiner Gregg to a police station, while another accompanied the boys to the hotel, where he satisfied himself that they had told the truth, and made Merriwell and Hodge promise to appear against Gregg.
It is the confession of Shiner Gregg," said Frank.
One of the gang was captured, a fellow known asShiner Gregg.
Dick, in his consternation at finding Shiner present, was at a loss how to proceed, and retired under a tree to collect his thoughts.
So Mr. Shiner resumed his old position in Geoffrey's brain by mere flux of time.
Why, Shinerwould never take a bold step like that, unless she'd been a little made up to, and had taken it kindly.
On the other hand, she had driven him about the house like a quiet dog or cat, said Shiner cared for her, and seemed anxious that Mr. Maybold should do the same.
Tis my belief that though Shiner fired the bullets, the parson made 'em," said Mr. Penny.
I don't think you should conclude that, because Mr. Shinerwants a different music, he has any ill-feeling for you.
Dick, fearing to lose ground in Fancy's good opinion, retained his coat like the rest of the thinner men; and Mr. Shiner did the same from superior knowledge.
Perhaps Mr. Shiner does," said Dick, in the tone of a slightly injured man.
Not that I see what business Shiner has to take upon himself to teach you anything.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shiner" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: bruise; fish; mouse
