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  • They struggled on for some hours and then floundered off through the roadside brush and lay shivering and exhausted on the cold ground and slept till day.†   (source)
  • He gave another stupendous heave and Nevilles robes tore all along the left seam — the small spun-glass ball dropped from his pocket and, before either of them could catch it, one of Neville's floundering feet kicked it: it flew some ten feet to their right and smashed on the step beneath them.†   (source)
  • I floundered to a halt.†   (source)
  • We are all floundering.†   (source)
  • "Uncle?" she says again, but he is leaving his study, floundering downstairs—are they in danger?†   (source)
  • Finny floundered with muddled honesty between me and my questioner.†   (source)
  • As he floundered across the furrows the attack was coming in.†   (source)
  • Without a degree, Langan floundered.†   (source)
  • The boar was floundering away from them.†   (source)
  • Postponement now speaks a floundering on my part; reprieve or pardon must cast doubt upon the guilt of them that died till now.†   (source)
  • "Oh … and, er … interesting rhythmic devices too," continued Arthur, "which seemed to counterpoint the … er … er …" he floundered.†   (source)
  • "But I'm not under fifteen," I said, floundering to produce my official-looking state-issued New York ID.†   (source)
  • I'm struggling, floundering, feeling like I'm drowning now, in the white light and the roaring.†   (source)
  • The four SS troopers who barged through the shop door floundered in the near darkness, colliding with delicate obstacles and each other.†   (source)
  • She was jolted out of her reverie and floundering for an answer.†   (source)
  • They floundered, struggling to stay above water.†   (source)
  • He floundered as he examined my smile, clearly not happy with my response.†   (source)
  • We floundered into the ice-cold water, got wet, and then squelched our way back to the classroom, freezing, dripping, already full of apprehension.†   (source)
  • When I went up to pull them over, floundering in the deep snow, they ignored me, tried to shrug away my hand.†   (source)
  • Nico and Will were floundering in the lake, apparently having been capsized in the middle of a canoe ride.†   (source)
  • He floundered for a year, feeling lost.†   (source)
  • I foresaw my life unfolding as an interminable stretch of nothingness and so I spent most of my childhood years on Tinos floundering, feeling like a stand-in for myself, a proxy, as though my real self resided elsewhere, waiting to unite someday with this dimmer, more hollow self.†   (source)
  • And again he was floundering in guilt.†   (source)
  • Bast floundered for a moment.†   (source)
  • When I learned how repulsive this disinterested violence was, that it was repulsive because it was disinterested, my shame floundered about for refuge.†   (source)
  • He floundered, forgetting all his training in that first instant of panic.†   (source)
  • The press, the stress, a floundering financial empire, dot, dot, dot, too much for him.†   (source)
  • They hated floundering around in the deep snow and balked constantly.†   (source)
  • At your age I was working hard, not floundering around in a fool's dream world.†   (source)
  • I saw him perhaps once or twice in the course of a year…"Shultz, floundering, switched the subject.†   (source)
  • Born in Sweet Water, lived in Chicago, survived in New York, brooded in Detroit, floundered in lots of places, arrived here late, after living in libraries around the country all those years because I liked being alone, liked matching up in books what I'd seen on the roads.†   (source)
  • He floundered forward and found that he was dragging himself through liquid mud.†   (source)
  • And when I did, Will would just keep his eyes level, no expression on his face, as I floundered on endlessly before finally sputtering to a stop.†   (source)
  • She realized that she had gone too far, that she was no longer playing kissing games with a child, but was floundering about in an autumnal passion, one that was dangerous and had no future, and she cut it off with one stroke.†   (source)
  • He floundered again.†   (source)
  • He was floundering in the river, about to go under, when he saw Zeus coming toward him.†   (source)
  • I floundered, not knowing what to do.†   (source)
  • I floundered, trying to put the instinct that so often whispered to me and goaded me to do, or not to do, things into words.†   (source)
  • So how is it that you came to be floundering without her, in the waters near my home?†   (source)
  • We watch them going through the deep fresh snow, Uncle floundering as he pulls Stephen behind him.†   (source)
  • For a moment the boy only gazed at him and then he started as if awakened from deep thought, and he floundered, as if he could not find the right words.†   (source)
  • Major Major floundered bewilderedly from one embarrassing catastrophe to another.†   (source)
  • I was soon floundering about in the deep waters of mathematics and Latin verbs, but it was the discipline that sank me.†   (source)
  • Looking up, I saw two of the white trustees moving swiftly across the platform to where Barbee floundered upon Dr. Bledsoe's legs.†   (source)
  • There was a splash from behind him and the girl of the Daphne clan floundered past, her white dress floating around her like a huge jellyfish.†   (source)
  • If not for them, I would have surely floundered, helpless.†   (source)
  • The oxen rolled their eyes, floundering, and mooed.†   (source)
  • It took his last floundering thrusts into her body to bring her back to reality.†   (source)
  • He wheeled backward and I floundered away, wheezing and hoping I wouldn't pass out.†   (source)
  • Triumphantly, he watched Janza floundering on weak, wobbly knees.†   (source)
  • However, his campaign floundered badly, and he was forced to drop out after securing just one delegate.†   (source)
  • She's floundering in the water, coughing, barely keeping herself afloat.†   (source)
  • You saw me struggle to retrieve my will from the power of the stranger whose shadow fell across the doorway and left me floundering and blundering in a maze I had never before encountered.†   (source)
  • With that the wretch floundered off into the flood.†   (source)
  • He floundered away to the far bank and Peter knew that Susan's arrow had struck on his helmet.†   (source)
  • It's like I'm floundering in black quicksand.†   (source)
  • The four guests, who had no idea how deep the water was, thought they were in danger of drowning in their heavy hunting clothes and started floundering and flailing at the water.†   (source)
  • This, combined with the knowledge of Sophie's imminent departure from the Pink Palace—and my consequent solitude there, floundering pennilessly around Flat-bush with the fragments of an uncompleted novel—gave me a real wrench of despair.†   (source)
  • Writers facing the problem of Texas find themselves floundering in generalities, and I am no exception.†   (source)
  • It was Peter, not Mary, who floundered into the field of conversation.†   (source)
  • BRADY (Floundering) I do not think about things that… I do not think about!†   (source)
  • But now, here came Gabriel, floundering and furious up the bank, and what she looked at, with an anger more violent than any she had felt before, was his nakedness.†   (source)
  • Whoever might look up at the ceiling for surcease would be floundered within a paper design stemming out of the chandelier, as complicated and as unavailing as a cut-out paper snowflake.†   (source)
  • The place was otherwise as flat as the flounders he'd heard about on the radio.   (source)
  • He climbed ecstatic mountains and floundered in the rocky darkness between the peaks.   (source)
    floundered = moved awkwardly on unsure footing
  • His mind floundered.   (source)
    floundered = had difficulty
  • horses floundered in the mud
  • He floundered, unable to pull himself over the raft wall.†   (source)
  • We just floundered on with bloody knees and elbows until they ordered us out of the water.†   (source)
  • He floundered too, but Arthur was ready again.†   (source)
  • "I mean," he floundered, "I think that's a great idea.†   (source)
  • "Like a play, you know," Kit floundered, confused by the increasing horror on both their faces.†   (source)
  • "I mean, it's not that I didn't enjoy It — Floundering up the street.†   (source)
  • We floundered to the beach and darn near fell into the surf.†   (source)
  • Louie would long remember sitting there with his eyes wide, his mind floundering.†   (source)
  • Then we turned and floundered back to the beach, formed up, and headed back to the BUD/S area.†   (source)
  • Milkman floundered for a word to describe the nagging he thought he was a victim of.†   (source)
  • I floundered around in my head, trying to remember how to close it.†   (source)
  • And though he did, perfectly, Lee was left floundering in the dark.†   (source)
  • Hungry Joe spilled forward into the room like a floundering frog.†   (source)
  • The vicious edge to her words left me floundering.†   (source)
  • 'I don't know,' Dobbs confessed with an air of floundering embarrassment.†   (source)
  • While Peter floundered into conversation, the women turned their attention to Mary.†   (source)
  • She floundered to keep her head up.†   (source)
  • He's floundering — images of quicksand come to mind — but he can't see how to extricate himself, not yet.†   (source)
  • Sarah came floundering through the snow in her father's footsteps and stood staring at him, her eyes bright under the woolen hood.†   (source)
  • He had trained the headlamp on the door and now he floundered through the snow, casting a long shadow in front of himself.†   (source)
  • He floundered out through the trees pulling up the fallen branches where they stuck out of the snow and by the time he had an armload and made his way back to the fire it had burned down to a nest of quaking embers.†   (source)
  • He struggled and floundered.†   (source)
  • I feel like I'm back in my dream, getting slurped into the dark, floundering like an insect stuck in a bowl of honey.†   (source)
  • He tramped from one of his snares to another, waiting every few moments for the dog who floundered happily behind him.†   (source)
  • He'd gotten so thin, no body fat on him at all, an hour and a half in the water was enough to do it, floundering around at those temperatures.†   (source)
  • I think of my mother floundering for a second in the air before dropping like a stone into the ocean; I think about the face of the girl who dropped from the laboratory roof all those years ago, her cheek turned against the pavement.†   (source)
  • I'd been shut up in my hotel for more than a week, afraid to telephone anybody or go out; and my heart scrambled and floundered at even the most innocent noises: elevator bell, rattle of the minibar cart, even church clocks tolling the hour, de Westertoren, Krijtberg, a dark edge to the clangor, an inwrought fairy-tale sense of doom.†   (source)
  • Right here I'd run, jumped, heaved, pushed 'em out, swum, floundered, and strived to within an inch of my life.†   (source)
  • The horse, a smallish, mud-colored animal with forelegs that didn't straighten all the way, spent nearly two seasons floundering in the lowest ranks of racing, misunderstood and mishandled.†   (source)
  • She's terrified that people will find out she's faking, bullshitting her way through life, pretending to have everything together when really she's just floundering like the rest of us.†   (source)
  • Eragon floundered for a moment before he caught hold of his thread of speech again and could say, "I know it would be hard to find Galbatorix's true name, but if all the elves and all the members of the Varden who know the ancient language searched for it, we could not help but succeed.†   (source)
  • She floundered.†   (source)
  • Using charmspeak wasn't easy when she was floundering in a whirlpool, but she got Achelous's attention.†   (source)
  • Expecting to be attacked at any moment, they scuttered and floundered through the undergrowth, finding here a doe and there one of their own rabbits and forcing them on.†   (source)
  • You sat with folded arms while evil strangers tilted the world from its course and crashed it beyond the edge of emptiness—you muttered, there is little that one man can do, you left us floundering in a blind future.†   (source)
  • Otis was floundering in the lake, trying to re-form, but from the arms down he looked like a puddle of burnt oatmeal.†   (source)
  • Toward his father— Keith was floundering, barely holding on…… Everything seemed to speed up and slow down at exactly the same time when she suddenly saw movement in the distance, a little ways upstream.†   (source)
  • Often they floundered, stepping or falling hands-first into waters as noisome as a cesspool, till they were slimed and fouled almost up to their necks and stank in one another's nostrils.†   (source)
  • As soon as he saw his companion fall, the other soldier, with a loud cry, jumped out of the boat on the far side, and lie also floundered through the water (which was apparently just in his depth) and disappeared into the woods of the mainland.†   (source)
  • I stood in the path holding my eye and trying to push back the day, but each time I floundered upon Dr. Bledsoe's decision.†   (source)
  • In 1935, when Seabiscuit was two and floundering in low-dollar claiming races, Baroni had contemplated purchasing him for a yard sale price, but shied away from those ugly forelegs.†   (source)
  • And the moan which escaped her lips as she floundered seemed to echo over the thin, romantic singing of the flute, which was a tribute to that beauty.†   (source)
  • I stumbled about in circles, blindly swinging the brief case, the image of a fiery comet's tail burning my smarting lids; turning and swinging blindly with brief case and leg chain and hearing the gallop begin as I floundered helplessly; and now moving straight into the full, naked force of the water, feeling its power like a blow, wet and thudding and cold, then through it and able partly to see just as another horse dashed up and through, a hunter taking a barrier, the rider slanting…†   (source)
  • Then I remember floundering along the wall and finding a large oak chair into which I all but collapsed.†   (source)
  • I released him, watching with a sinister fascination as he floundered, moving up the center aisle as if he plowed through snow.†   (source)
  • I did not like Batavia--the funny way the people talked, the bright red brick streets that a half-blind child could barely cross without falling, the stores where no one knew your name or, for that matter, cared, and in winter the snow drifts where sighted children squealed and played and blind children floundered and grimly pretended to laugh.†   (source)
  • I climbed up, slipping and floundering, lost the echoed light and found it again, a good little new-split stone with a piece of mica in it—not a fortune but a good thing to have.†   (source)
  • , but in reality she was on the verge of becoming emotionally unhelmed, no more in command of her destiny than a puppy that has been hurled floundering into a turbulent pool.†   (source)
  • She was stunningly pretty and meltingly pleasant, and as I watched her depart, moving with easy undulant grace across the thick carpet of the room—which for the first time I perceived in all of its paneled, hospitably warm, book-lined, unostentatious luxury—my heart gave a heave: Why, instead of the floundering, broke, unpublished writer that I was, couldn't I be an attractive, intelligent, well-paid Jewish urologist with a sexy wife?†   (source)
  • …slavery, to make slavery give up its most deeply buried and tormented secrets, which was every bit as necessary as the compulsion that drove me to write, as I had been writing today, about the inheritors of that institution who now in the 1940s floundered amid the insane apartheid of Tidewater Virginia—my beloved and bedeviled bourgeois New South family whose every move and gesture, I had begun to realize, were played out in the presence of a vast, brooding company of black witnesses,…†   (source)
  • For Heaven's sake, she prayed, let them sit still there and not come floundering out to talk to her.†   (source)
  • "Why," she floundered, "why—why, then we've got to raise three hundred, somehow."†   (source)
  • They floundered in the mud and dug their wheels down until finally the drivers cut off the motors and sat still, looking into the headlight beams.†   (source)
  • The dog did a somersault like a tossed pancake, lashed the air with its legs, and floundered on to its side, its body writhing in long convulsions.†   (source)
  • But I visualise my own efforts to keep up the conversation as the wild flounderings and scrapings of a skater who cannot skate.†   (source)
  • Even so, I floundered, staggered; but somehow I always groped my way back to that path where I felt a tinge of warmth from an unseen light.†   (source)
  • The Crittenden Resolution had been rejected, the border states had quashed his plan of compensated emancipation, his generals were still floundering, and he had already lost the support of great numbers of conservatives.†   (source)
  • The effort seemed to drain him of every ounce of strength, and even despite his efforts, he halted and floundered frequently.†   (source)
  • Conway's head struck the window, dazing him for the moment; a returning lurch sent him floundering between the two tiers of seats.†   (source)
  • In the darkness floundering in the cold water they had a difficult and very nasty job finding which were the right barrels.†   (source)
  • …on smooth stone, reflected in a dapple of light on painted ceilings; of a night at the Corombona palace such as Byron might have known, and another Byronic night fishing for scampi in the shallows of Chioggia, the phosphorescent wake of the little ship, the lantern swinging in the prow, and the net coming up full of weed and sand and floundering fishes; of melon and prosciutto on the balcony in the cool of the morning; of hot cheese sandwiches and champagne cocktails at Harry's bar.†   (source)
  • They floundered on foot some eight miles to a squatter's cabin, rented horses, and completed their journey by starlight.†   (source)
  • And the words he spoke were like staggering burdens he bore up a great steep where his own sighs battered him, where he floundered in his own tears.†   (source)
  • "But, Ashley," she began, floundering in a quagmire of bewilderment, "if you're afraid we'll starve, why—why— Oh, Ashley, we'll manage somehow!†   (source)
  • "Well," she floundered helplessly, "money does help, you know, Rhett, and God knows Frank didn't leave any too much.†   (source)
  • Scarlett floundered.†   (source)
  • I too had been groping and floundering, the while I thought I rode clear-eyed through the mystery.†   (source)
  • Her question pulled him up with a jerk, and he floundered.†   (source)
  • He was like a vessel, powerful and dangerous, but rolling and floundering without sail.†   (source)
  • Bosomer cursed harshly and floundered in the dust, trying to reach the gun with his left hand.†   (source)
  • He floundered about in darkness until he found the stairs.†   (source)
  • But even at risk of floundering in strange bogs, he could not keep out of an open controversy.†   (source)
  • It is something to have touched bottom anywhere in this bog in which we are floundering.†   (source)
  • "They--busted--me," he declared, huskily, then let go of Tacks, and floundered behind a rock.†   (source)
  • Hare essayed to walk also, soon tired, and floundered behind till Naab ordered him to ride again.†   (source)
  • Suddenly, in his bogged floundering in the laboratory, he touched solid earth.†   (source)
  • Suddenly it broke through, floundered to one side, and got away to firmer footing.†   (source)
  • At least she never floundered in such a pitiable way.†   (source)
  • People were struggling and floundering in the water about me.†   (source)
  • "It's natural enough you should be leaving us" he floundered on, following his thought.†   (source)
  • "I was shore sorry about—about that—" he floundered, in low voice.†   (source)
  • The manager floundered among a jumble of thoughts.†   (source)
  • The sore joints of the regiment creaked as it painfully floundered into position to repulse.†   (source)
  • He floundered back to the cabin and burst in, crying, "You old grouch, we got to stick together!"†   (source)
  • He wetted himself half-way to the knees before he floundered out to the firm crust.†   (source)
  • His thoughts seemed to be floundering about in his head.†   (source)
  • He floundered along an' crawled up at the end.†   (source)
  • And right in among those sharks was Queequeg; who often pushed them aside with his floundering feet.†   (source)
  • The only chance is that, since the best thing won't always do, floundering may answer for once."†   (source)
  • We are floundering about in mere barbarism.†   (source)
  • He floundered about with incredible fury.†   (source)
  • Soldiers floundering knee-deep in mud pushed the guns and wagons themselves.†   (source)
  • A little floundering across the sand, which was heavy, brought me to the door, and I went in.†   (source)
  • He is one of those who are floundering in a bog—decent enough fellow though he may be, otherwise.†   (source)
  • So Paul had a little battle with the creature, pitching poor Bill away from him, who, however, only floundered tumultuously back again, wild with joy.†   (source)
  • The moment they were through the doorway Cranly seized him rudely by the neck and shook him, saying: —You flaming floundering fool!†   (source)
  • Before he could shout three words, or make three steps, he would be floundering in a sea whitened awfully by the desperate struggles of human beings, clamorous with the distress of cries for help.†   (source)
  • They were soft and helpless, made much noise, and floundered around clumsily trying to accomplish by main strength what he accomplished by dexterity and cunning.†   (source)
  • Other regiments floundered up the bank.†   (source)
  • He saw no sign of a trail through the closely knit web of weeds and trees; it was easier to go along the shore, and Rainsford floundered along by the water.†   (source)
  • "It's bad enough to let these floundering yokels explode my little secret, without your cutting off with my books.†   (source)
  • He was two weeks learning to use his flippers; and all that while he floundered in and out of the water, and coughed and grunted and crawled up the beach and took catnaps on the sand, and went back again, until at last he found that he truly belonged to the water.†   (source)
  • Before eight a man came down to the beach in a blue bathrobe and with much preliminary application to his person of the chilly water, and much grunting and loud breathing, floundered a minute in the sea.†   (source)
  • For he was not like some eminent men, who give out that they will come, and then fail at the last moment, leaving the small fry floundering.†   (source)
  • Once well into the country, Paul dismissed the carriage and walked, floundering along the tracks, his mind a medley of irrelevant things.†   (source)
  • And it began half to walk and half swim down what appeared to be a narrow boxlike ditch that contained other floundering sheep.†   (source)
  • While all minds were struggling to right themselves, the boy still moved steadily forward, with high port and confident mien; he had never halted from the beginning; and while the tangled minds still floundered helplessly, he stepped upon the platform, and the mock-King ran with a glad face to meet him; and fell on his knees before him and said— "Oh, my lord the King, let poor Tom Canty be first to swear fealty to thee, and say, 'Put on thy crown and enter into thine own again!'†   (source)
  • With the last remnant of his strength he managed to stagger along behind till the train made another stop, when he floundered past the sleds to his own, where he stood alongside Sol-leks.†   (source)
  • Staggering along in Frome's wake I floundered toward it, and in the darkness almost fell into one of the deep drifts against the front of the house.†   (source)
  • He felt the confused titillation with which the lower organisms welcome the gratification of their needs, and all his senses floundered in a vague well-being, through which Miss Bart's personality was dimly but pleasantly perceptible.†   (source)
  • A natural fillip followed, the beetle went floundering into the aisle and lit on its back, and the hurt finger went into the boy's mouth.†   (source)
  • She dragged and floundered.†   (source)
  • We had just floundered and flopped round a bend, when I saw an islet, a mere grassy hummock of bright green, in the middle of the stream.†   (source)
  • The woman floundered about in the lower hall of the tenement house and finally stumbled up the stairs.†   (source)
  • When the sled started, he floundered in the soft snow alongside the beaten trail, attacking Sol-leks with his teeth, rushing against him and trying to thrust him off into the soft snow on the other side, striving to leap inside his traces and get between him and the sled, and all the while whining and yelping and crying with grief and pain.†   (source)
  • More noises came from a dusty tree, where brown birds creaked and floundered about looking for insects; another bird, the invisible coppersmith, had started his "ponk ponk."†   (source)
  • As he stood there, trying to form in words something to say to Pilchuck, a huge old buffalo bull, one of the many that had been mired in the sand, floundered and wallowed free, and waddled to the opposite shore.†   (source)
  • The mustangs and ponies floundered somewhat on the sand-bar and then parted the willows and appeared on a trail skirting the red wall.†   (source)
  • But for the present, if he clung to her, it was not in order to be dragged up, but to feel some one floundering in the depths with him: he wanted her to suffer with him, not to help him to suffer less.†   (source)
  • 'That's how it was—and the opportunity ran by his side, leaped over the gap, floundered in the mud …. still veiled.†   (source)
  • The night had turned cold, the stars had brightened icily, the rumble of the river had died away when Bolly's ringing trot suddenly changed to a noiseless floundering walk.†   (source)
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  • He offered up his famous specialty—grilled flounder stuffed with shrimp served on pimento-cheese grits—only a few times a year.   (source)
    flounder = a kind of fish
  • And that great shot of you holding that flounder on the boat!   (source)
  • The sand stirred around me, and a flounder darted from my feet.   (source)
  • Pompano, grouper, cobia; trout, mackerel, redfish, flounder, mullet; blue crabs and stone crabs.   (source)
  • Go to sleep, you good flounder!   (source)
  • "He's a big flounder," George said.   (source)
  • He stopped to talk to card-players in a social club and watched a woman buy a flounder in the market.   (source)
  • Later, he grabbed a flounder and used it to flavor one of Henry's sandwiches by running the fish over the bread.   (source)
  • Then hot dishes: fried whole flounder, and we always pushed the head to our dia's side of the plate.   (source)
  • Instead, we were limp and floppy like two wounded flounders.   (source)
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  • I swear I wouldn't give you kids a dead flounder for a pet.   (source)
  • Old platter-foot Doxology was daintily nibbling hay from the manger with lips like two flounders.   (source)
  • He bought three flounders from the man for a quarter.   (source)
  • And as for other fish common to the Atlantic and Mediterranean, I was unable to observe miralets, triggerfish, puffers, seahorses, jewelfish, trumpetfish, blennies, gray mullet, wrasse, smelt, flying fish, anchovies, sea bream, porgies, garfish, or any of the chief representatives of the order Pleuronecta, such as sole, flounder, plaice, dab, and brill, simply because of the dizzying speed with which the Nautilus hustled through these opulent waters.   (source)
  • We sang it to a flounder in the back lying in a low basket by itself, with its two button-eyes on the side of its head shifting around.   (source)
  • Grinning at the memory of his editor's expression, Jeremy flipped through various stations—rock, hip-hop, country, gospel— before settling on a local talk show that was interviewing two flounder fishermen who spoke passionately about the need to decrease the weight at which the fish could be harvested.   (source)
  • One of the tubs was already filled with enough mackerel and flounder to feed a waddling army of starving seals, and both men had removed their beer-soaked shirts and hung them on the rail to dry.   (source)
  • A goat and four rabbits were hung upside down in a window, trussed at the hind legs, less affectingly dead than the flounder in the market—dumb scuzzy fur with nothing to impart.   (source)
  • …let out thin cries, black rudderfish like those I've already discussed, blue dorados accented with gold and silver, rainbow–hued parrotfish that can rival the loveliest tropical birds in coloring, banded blennies with triangular heads, bluish flounder without scales, toadfish covered with a crosswise yellow band in the shape of a Τ, swarms of little freckled gobies stippled with brown spots, lungfish with silver heads and yellow tails, various specimens of salmon, mullet with slim…   (source)
  • …from malt, hath, by the early devotion of their votaries, been poured forth in great abundance, should any daring tongue with unhallowed license prophane, i.e., depreciate, the delicate fat Milton oyster, the plaice sound and firm, the flounder as much alive as when in the water, the shrimp as big as a prawn, the fine cod alive but a few hours ago, or any other of the various treasures which those water-deities who fish the sea and rivers have committed to the care of the nymphs,…   (source)
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