tunnies
- plural of tunny.
Example Sentences
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Every spring shall be coming always the tunnies, but if to don’t bless the sea, then to be coming few tunnies; if to bless the sea then to be coming plenty many tunnies.”
From Diversions in Sicily by Jones, Henry Festing
On the same evening, many large birds were seen, and flocks of small birds, all coming from the northward, and many tunnies were seen.
And in the end, he may find his honorarium for a day’s hard pleading to be a leg of pork, a jar of tunnies, or a few flasks of cheap wine.
From Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius by Dill, Samuel
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.
From A Day in Old Athens; a Picture of Athenian Life by Davis, William Stearns
And the intestines of this fish are highly extolled, as Eubulus also tells us, in his Ionian,— And after this the luscious intestines Of roasted tunnies sail'd upon the table.
From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us
