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Vermilion-finned and with eyes of bossy gold, the tunnies went by in shoals, but he heeded them not. 

From A House of Pomegranates by Wilde, Oscar

But it is taking a mean advantage of the poor tunnies to pray against them, for they have no religion.”

From Diversions in Sicily by Jones, Henry Festing

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

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.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 03 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time by Kerr, Robert

The lower holds four dishes, such as sucking forest-boars, venison, hares, tunnies, sturgeons, which you will find within; the upper three, eight each, but diminutive.

From Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection by Landor, Walter Savage