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  • The Tigers hunted down and consumed the other fish in the tank then turned on each other (even the red-finned shark).

    Why Your Kid Needs an Aquarium 2009

  • The Tigers hunted down and consumed the other fish in the tank then turned on each other (even the red-finned shark).

    Why Your Kid Needs an Aquarium 2009

  • By the next afternoon the four - stage, red-finned rocket stood poised on its concrete launching platform inside a light metal scaffolding.

    Golden State 2010

  • Endemic fish include the red-finned blue eye (Scaturiginichthys vermeilipinnis), which is restricted to two springs in the Edgbaston complex of the eastern downs.

    Mitchell grass downs 2007

  • Once as we strolled on the bank of the creek gazing at the lazy, red-finned fish among the swaying weeds, her wandering eyes detected a neat circular bore in the trunk of a huge silky oak.

    Tropic Days 2003

  • Once as we strolled on the bank of the creek gazing at the lazy, red-finned fish among the swaying weeds, her wandering eyes detected a neat circular bore in the trunk of a huge silky oak.

    Tropic Days 1887

  • The door opened, and in stumbled Ethered, bearing a heavy basket of great fish, which he cast on the floor -- lean green and golden pike, and red-finned roach, in a glittering, flapping heap.

    King Alfred's Viking A Story of the First English Fleet 1884

  • The corks which we used as floats were perpetually tipping, bobbing, and disappearing, and then the red-finned perch would fly out on to dry land.

    Angling Sketches Andrew Lang 1878

  • One another's beauty through the visage into the character was newly perceived and worshipped; and the beauties of pastoral Thames, the temple of peace, hardly noticed in the passing of the day -- taken as air to the breather; until some chip of the scene, round which an emotion had curled, was vivid foreground and gateway to shrouded romance: it might be the stream's white face browning into willow-droopers, or a wagtail on a water-lily leaf, or the fore-horse of an up-river barge at strain of legs, a red-finned perch hung a foot above the pebbles in sun-veined depths, a kingfisher on the scud under alders, the forest of the bankside weeds.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

  • One another's beauty through the visage into the character was newly perceived and worshipped; and the beauties of pastoral Thames, the temple of peace, hardly noticed in the passing of the day -- taken as air to the breather; until some chip of the scene, round which an emotion had curled, was vivid foreground and gateway to shrouded romance: it might be the stream's white face browning into willow-droopers, or a wagtail on a water-lily leaf, or the fore-horse of an up-river barge at strain of legs, a red-finned perch hung a foot above the pebbles in sun-veined depths, a kingfisher on the scud under alders, the forest of the bankside weeds.

    Lord Ormont and His Aminta — Volume 5 George Meredith 1868

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