And of fat fish, the best are the different kinds of tunny, and the young of the tunny; for the old ones are larger and harsher to the taste; and above all, the Byzantine tunnies are so.
But not long ago, This man, if he could get a tunny's head, Thought he was eating tunnies whole, and eels.
The tunnies there Have gain'd the height of fame and palm of victory.
And Theodoridas says,-- The tunnies bend their furious course to Gades.
Phrynichus mentions it in his Muses; and Aristotle, in the fifth book of his treatise on the Parts of Animals, says the pelamydes and the tunnies breed in the Black Sea, but not anywhere else.
And Archestratus says-- Around the sacred and the spacious isle Of Samos you may see large tunnies caught.
Often, when the fishermen are busy in their boats, setting their nets for herring, a troupe of Tunnies will come along, and chase the herring in every direction, swallowing every unfortunate fellow that they can catch.
Among them we still meet with naked or microlepidal species, which in their abnormal form also remind us of the irregular Fishes, as the Tunnies and Haberdines or Stock-fish.
Here belong the proper Tunnies and Haberdines: all of them marine Fishes.
But it is taking a mean advantage of the poor tunnies to pray against them, for they have no religion.
Yes," said Peppino, "it is right to pray to win the battle, and we battle the tunnies so we may pray.
But do you think it is quite sportsmanlike to pray that many tunnies may be killed?
In many localities the shoals of tunnies show themselves in the spring, pursuing their way towards the east, and in the autumn we find them pursuing an opposite direction.
In the morning the tunnies are collected in a very narrow space, and at varying distances from the shore; and now the carnage commences.
The tunny-net consists of a combination of nets, which is quickly cast into the sea in order to head the tunnies at the moment of their passage.
The tunnies follow this alley, and, after passing from chamber to chamber, betake themselves at last to the body of the park.
The madrague is intended to arrest the shoals of tunnies at the moment when they abandon the shore in order to return to the open sea.
This net is hauled into shallow water by force of arms, and the smalltunnies are taken by the hand, the larger by hooks.
The tunnies thus enclosed in this garden, between the coast and the net, become agitated with terror.
In this second enclosure an opening is left, through which the tunnies have to pass.
We here came into a whole school of tunnies which afforded us great amusement.
For some time they sailed on prosperously, seeing many tunnies and gulls, and fell in with abundance of sea weeds, with which they were now well acquainted.
On the same evening, many large birds were seen, and flocks of small birds, all coming from the northward, and many tunnies were seen.
Port-Cros, about six or seven leagues from La Ciotat, was at this time of year thickly populated, inasmuch as the season for tunnies and sardines brought many fishermen there who made it a temporary home.
Well, we have been a long time doing nothing, but we must come across the tunnies soon.
Elsewhere, one of thetunnies would leap bodily into the air, his silvery side gleaming in the almost level rays of the rising sun.
The old man, who had, indeed, the experience of sixty years to draw from, was quite right in his prediction that they would find themselves among the tunnies at dawn.
The tunnies had got among a shoal of sardines, and were busy with the chase.
Prodicus engages him and has a conference with him on the profound question of "whether the tunnies or the mullets are better to-day, or will there be fresh eels?
The fishing craft just now pulling in with loads of shining tunnies caught near Ægina are of course merely broad open boats, with only a single dirty orange sail swinging in the lagging breeze.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tunnies" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
