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After a minute marked by tense silence, two breams emerged from the hole.

From National Geographic • Mar. 16, 2018

Since arriving in the Solomon Islands, we have found biofluorescence in lineages in which it never has been reported before, including breams and flatheads.

From New York Times • Jul. 6, 2012

At its edge was the flutter of ospreys feasting on the barbels and breams of the Jordan, which as they enter, die.

From Mary Magdalen by Saltus, Edgar

Their chief fish are bonitos, snooks, cavallies, breams, and mullets; and they have abundance of sea-tortoises; and the island has many harbours, creeks, and rivers.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 10 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

There were cod, breams, silver-fish, and other kinds whose names they did not know, or which I have forgotten.

From Two Years Before the Mast by Dana, Richard Henry