Shiners can swim like lightning; and they too ought to be grateful to the man for stopping those bombs!
And again the shiners were off up and down the river, flecking the surface of the water with the wakes they left.
And up and down the river the shiners darted, streaking the surface with tiny black wakes, so fast did they move.
But a little ray, who was a very bright and clever little fish, spoke up and said: "Get theshiners to carry a message!
In vain theshiners darted up and down the river calling in more and more rays to battle.
A school of shiners happened to be just going by; and the rays sent them off with a message to all the rays along the river: "Sting the she-panther if she tries to cross!
Others kept afloat, and the shiners went down the Yabebiri with them, all the way to the Parana, having a great feast off panther meat, and jumping and hopping along the top of the water to express their delight.
And meanwhile the shiners came streaming up and down past the island, raising new recruits and ready to give the word when the panthers appeared.
Though the shiners swam very, very fast, they were barely in time.
The absence of this species in Flint Hills streams of the Big Blue River Basin is unexplained; redfin shiners occur commonly in southern tributaries of the Kansas River both upstream and downstream from the mouth of the Big Blue River.
Common shiners were most abundant in middle sections of the clear, gravelly creeks.
Red shinerswere the most widespread species taken in my survey, occurring in all habitats, and in all kinds of streams.
The red shiners moved rapidly at the surface of the water, with one male (rarely two or more) following one female.
I never made out why Clyde took to me that way, as he surely did, and left me his shiners as sure as he could, and gave me what chance he could for getting away, or so I fancied.
And, too, there prevails a strong desire for an evening gathering now and then, at which the young shiners may be instructed how to grow.
Just let the shiners slide in, it don't matter a tenpence where ye got 'em.
The honourable sheriff will gives titles-that functionary being present signifies his willingness-and every man purchasing is expected to have his shiners ready, so that he can plunk down cash in ten days.
Did you see with what an air he poured the shiners in?
C-11 most shiners were found in the shallower part of a large pool.
Sand shiners seemed to be abundant in the Arkansas River, rare in the Walnut River and absent from other streams surveyed.
Immediately below the west end of the dam, plains shiners were so concentrated that fifty or more were taken in one haul of a four-foot nylon net.
The largest relative number of bigeye shiners was taken at C-11 in a clear stream described in the discussion of Notropis rubellus.
At G-16, next downstream, this species was joined by large numbers of black bullheads and a few redfin shiners and red shiners.
The kinds and numbers of shiners (Notropis) taken at different points along Grouse Creek seem significant.
The sucker-mouthed minnow and black bullhead showed some movement--less than such mobile species as red shiners and channel catfish, but more than the sedentary group.
In Kansas, red shinersbreed in May, June, and July.
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.
This they bait with cracker crumbs and now and then pull it eagerly to the surface, often with many shiners in it.
Do you believe that she is actually Dumont's daughter, and that the shinershave really been stolen?
You say her father and someshiners have disappeared in London.
You've heern talk of Jesus Who set poor shiners free.
Jesus set poor shiners free, Way down in de valley, Who will rise and go with me?
They had a very pleasant hour hooking shiners and chub, and an occasional perch that looked at a distance like a trout.
Next morning, Marjorie carried off one of this pair by the name of Jim to look for crawfish and shinersin the creek.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shiners" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
