gurnards

If you are buying gurnards and don't want anchovies, the huckster next door, who is selling the latter, at once exclaims, "That is a man whose kitchen savours of tyranny!"

The Wasps 2000

If you are buying gurnards and don't want anchovies, the huckster next door, who is selling the latter, at once exclaims, "That is a man, whose kitchen savours of tyranny!"

The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2 446? BC-385? BC Aristophanes

The young forms of many fish, as for instance of conger, flying gurnards, and some flatfish, are pelagic and have colourless blood, and pale, transparent, gelatinous or cartilaginous skeletons.

Thomas Henry Huxley; A Sketch Of His Life And Work 1904

The young forms of many fish, as for instance of conger, flying gurnards, and some flatfish, are pelagic and have colourless blood, and pale, transparent, gelatinous or cartilaginous skeletons.

Thomas Henry Huxley A Sketch Of His Life And Work Mitchell, P Chalmers 1900

Mr. Couch, of Polperro in Cornwall, was equally versed in the true backboned fishes; and to him Edward sent any doubtful midges, or gurnards, or gobies, or whiffs.

Biographies of Working Men Grant Allen 1873

Mr. Couch, of Polperro in Cornwall, was equally versed in the true backboned fishes; and to him Edward sent any doubtful midges, or gurnards, or gobies, or whiffs.

Biographies of Working Men Grant Allen 1873

Exhibitions, most adult persons above the age of twenty-one years must have observed the gurnards themselves crawling along suspiciously by their aid at the bottom of a tank at the Crystal Palace or the polyonymous South Kensington building.

Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science Grant Allen 1873

I don't know whether the flying gurnards are good eating or not; but the silvery flying fish are caught for market (sad desecration of the poetry of nature!) in the

Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science Grant Allen 1873

Another group of very interesting fish out of water are the flying gurnards, common enough in the Mediterranean and the tropical Atlantic.

Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science Grant Allen 1873

"Oh, he shall have it if he likes," cried Will, as the turbot was thrown into the basket to set the skate flapping, and the gurnards curling their heads round towards their tails like cleaned whiting, and a regular scuffle took place.

Menhardoc George Manville Fenn 1870