runners
Example Sentences
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I have been fishing for cunners off the rocks, but with intolerably poor success.
From Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 2. by Hawthorne, Nathaniel
It was growing cloudy, and was much cooler,—the perfection of a day for fishing,—and we sat there diligently pulling in cunners, and talking a little once in a while.
From Deephaven and Selected Stories & Sketches by Jewett, Sarah Orne
"I was going out to Black Rock for cunners myself," said the cap'n.
From Deephaven and Selected Stories & Sketches by Jewett, Sarah Orne
Again at the spindle on Harding's Ledge you may catch cunners; perhaps a stray cod.
From Old Plymouth Trails by Packard, Winthrop
Down at Newport, R. I., they catch cunners and if you talk salt-water perch to them it is at your peril.
From Old Plymouth Trails by Packard, Winthrop
