Search Details

Word: flounderers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...port town of Lanes. The Vatican had recognized the Rightist State. Off the tables of Marshal Pietro Badoglio in Rome was generally expected a new plan of attack by which Madrid would be captured before cold weather set in. The Leftist offensive against Saragossa seemed flopping like a flounder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Victor | 9/13/1937 | See Source »

From the lowly flounder to the lordly broadbill swordfish, Angler Heilner loves them all. To each he devotes a chapter- weakfish, bluefish, striped and channel bass, sailfish, marlin, tuna, tarpon, and a definitive essay on the bonefish, wiliest of all-setting at the end of each chapter an extremely useful condensed guide for the handling of each species...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Ocean Cicerone | 4/12/1937 | See Source »

...mammal, discovered by Columbus; that the weakfish which spawn in Peconic Bay do so without issue, some cause aborting all their efforts north of the Delaware Capes though a primeval urge drives them still to run to Peconic in millions from their deep winter beds off Hatteras; that a flounder's eyes are on the right of his whale-smashed face, a fluke's on the left; that a hooked flounder will often jump like a trout; that muddying the bottom will bring flounders and flukes from fathoms around; that the bonefish grows up from its larval stage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Ocean Cicerone | 4/12/1937 | See Source »

...Columbia, S. C. fortnight ago Will Pickens White, an obscure piebald, pursed-mouthed Negro of 68, leaped from his bed yelling: "Jesus, my God, what is this!" Night before Will Pickens White had taken a bath. This morning his entire skin was as dead white as a flounder's belly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Whitened White | 12/7/1936 | See Source »

...Sensing the division in the Irish ranks, the "old fox" manages to split the leaders from Parnell by asserting that he cannot do anything for a cause which is captained by a notorious libertine. Parnell is cast out by his devoted helpers and the Irish cause is left to flounder in the confusion stirred by the divorce suit which O'Shea has instituted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 6/3/1936 | See Source »

Previous | 43 | 44 | 45 | 46 | 47 | 48 | 49 | 50 | 51 | 52 | 53 | 54 | 55 | 56 | 57 | Next