Example Sentences

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But, more than this, there were a score of large goldfishes swimming about in the tank, their brilliant scales reflecting back the light that came in from top and sides.

From Joe Strong, the Boy Fish or Marvelous Doings in a Big Tank by Barnum, Vance

The trees are covered with sugar-plums; and all the streams are full of goldfishes, which come when you whistle to them.

From The Big Nightcap Letters Being the Fifth Book of the Series by Fanny, Aunt

I dare say you have all seen goldfishes, shut up in crystal prisons, swimming their endless round in a quart or two of water.

From Happy Days for Boys and Girls by Various

In the pool at my feet the goldfishes drag their trains of brown Which cleave it into parts that ceaselessly mingle anew.

From Sandhya Songs of Twilight by Mukerji, Dhan Gopal

Here is the little pool where Wordsworth and Dora put the little goldfishes, that they might enjoy a greater liberty.

From The Lure of the Camera by Olcott, Charles S.