skipjacks

And, after they had prayed fervently to Him who had guarded them through all the perils of the deep, and now showered on them a supply of food almost from heaven, they set to work and collected all the fish they could see floating about on the surface of the sea, David saying that they were bonetas and skipjacks, and capital eating, as he stored them in the locker.

Picked up at Sea The Gold Miners of Minturne Creek

On counting them, which they had not done before, they found they had thirteen bonetas and skipjacks, beside the molly hawk, which they determined to eat while it was fresh; and then would have sufficient food, as the fish would keep perfectly when dried, for quite that number of days -- a lucky number as Jonathan said, as it was "a baker's dozen," and certainly not an even one.

Picked up at Sea The Gold Miners of Minturne Creek

At Fuentes d'Onoro the whole French cavalry cut him off -- him and his battery -- and he charged back clean through them; ay, lad, through 'em like a swathe, with his horses belly-down and the guns behind 'em bounding like skipjacks; not a gun taken, and scarce a gunner hurt.

Corporal Sam and Other Stories Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

Thousands of flying-fish were to be seen fluttering on either side of the vessel, while skipjacks and bonetas also showed themselves occasionally; and the dreaded shark, with his close attendant and valet the pilot-fish, was not an absentee, for he was continually cruising about astern on the constant look-out.

The Wreck of the Nancy Bell Cast Away on Kerguelen Land 1887

When he got there, and asked if the jolly-jist was stirring yet, one servant snorted, and another grunted, till Joe got rather maddish; but at last one of them skipjacks of fellows, that wear a little jacket like a lass's bedgown, said he would see.

The Squire of Sandal-Side A Pastoral Romance Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr 1875

'Joe caught another dolphin to-day; in his maw we found a flying-fish and two skipjacks.'

The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories Mark Twain 1872

"Property," and, behind him, the secret society of skipjacks and picaroons, the society of disorder, of prostitution, and of theft, -- that is Bonaparte himself as the original author; and the history of the

Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte Karl Marx 1850

The sharks, skipjacks, dolphins, and bonetas which were caught were counted by hundreds, for they literally sailed through a sea of fish.

Our Sailors Gallant Deeds of the British Navy during Victoria's Reign William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

There were bonettas, and dolphins, and skipjacks without number, all affording sport and very pleasant provender; while the seaman's arch-enemies, the sharks, cruised round them as if they had made up their minds that they were to become their prey.

The Three Midshipmen William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

I saw also some bonetas, and some skipjacks, a fish about 8 inches long, broad, and sizable, not much unlike a roach; which our seamen call so from their leaping about.

A Voyage to New Holland William Dampier 1683