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There one may also capture blue-fish, white-fish, sheepheads and pompanos; all delicious, the pompanos being the most highly-prized and esteemed, and most expensive, of America's many fine table fishes.

From Ranching, Sport and Travel by Carson, Thomas

The yellow-tail belongs to the family Carangidæ, the same to which belong the pompanos, and is one of the gamiest of sea fishes.

From Game Birds and Game Fishes of the Pacific Coast by Payne, Harry Thom

What you've been saying—about butter and pompanos and wall-paper and my den and all that?

From A Damsel in Distress by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)