A large fish pound used for the capture of the tunny in the Mediterranean; also applied to the seines used for the same purpose.
I will cast off my coat of skins, and into yonder waves I will spring, where the fisher Olpis watches for the tunny shoals, and even if I die not, surely thy pleasure will have been done.
From the cliffs and their seat among the bright red berries on the arbutus shrubs, his shepherds flute to each other, as they watch the tunny fishers cruising far below, while the echo floats upwards of the sailors' song.
Put in also a fresh tunny about as large as an egg, to which you must add a charlotte minced.
Mix the tunny and the roes together, and put the whole in a kettle with a portion of good butter, and keep it on the fire until the butter has melted.
The tunny on finding himself held, makes off in a bee-line at a mile a minute.
VEAL WITH TUNNY (Vitello tonnato) Take two pounds of meat without bones, remove the fat and tendons, then lard it with two anchovies.
He then turned to the Tunny and said to him in a voice full of emotion: "My friend, you have saved my papa's life.
I am a poor Tunnywho was swallowed by the Dog-Fish at the same time that you were.
Neither do I want to be digested," added the Tunny; "but I am enough of a philosopher to console myself by thinking that when one is born a Tunny it is more dignified to die in the water than in oil.
The Tunny put his head out of the water and Pinocchio, kneeling on the ground, kissed him tenderly on the mouth.
Nothing is comparable to the fresh tunny thrown into a hot frying-pan, and sprinkled with vinegar and salt.
Fishing forTunny at Madrigue, on the Coast of Provence.
The flesh of thetunny is much esteemed, being firm and wholesome.
The tunnyis greatly celebrated among the Greeks and other inhabitants on the shores of the Mediterranean, of the Propontus, and the Black Sea.
The most esteemed part of the tunny is the underneath, or "panse.
The boats go as far as Spain, to the coast of Catalonia, for the tunny fishery, which extends from August to the beginning of October.
The greater number of the population of Belle Isle are employed in the fisheries; of these the sardine and the tunny are the chief.
On the coast the people gain their living in great measure from the fisheries, tunny and sardines being caught in considerable quantities.
Many of the inhabitants are engaged in the carrying trade, while the fisheries on the coast are also actively prosecuted, tunny and anchovies being caught in great numbers.
Perhaps they have Signor Vescovo down in the sea and make a procession with tunny priests very well dressed, and bells and banners and incense and singing, and to pray against the death and the boiling in oil, and to escape to be eaten.
The tunny is also caught in abundance near this part of the coast; and Vernet has introduced the fishery, from a lack of picturesque circumstances, into one of his sea-ports, painted by royal order.
Tunny fish can be obtained in cans, the best quality being the French brands.
The tunny fishery is of some importance to the Sardes.
How much fat and protein does canned salmon and tunny contain (see U.
When the Tunny saw that his enemy was doomed like himself, he said, "I don't mind having to die now: for I see that he who is the cause of my death is about to share the same fate.
A fish called a Tunny being pursued by a Dolphin, and driven with great violence, not minding which way he went, was thrown by the force of the waves upon a rock, and left there.
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