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The tunny-fish generally runs from fifty to one hundred weight; but some of them are much larger.
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Then we pursued them with our lance-point in their loins as one hunts the tunny-fish; they fled and we stung them in the jaw and in the eyes, so that even now the barbarians tell each other that there is nothing in the world more to be feared than the Attic wasp.
The Wasps 2000
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When I have devoured a good hot tunny-fish and drunk on top of it a great jar of unmixed wine.
The Knights 2000
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As a furious torrent you have overthrown our city; your outcries have deafened Athens and, posted upon a high rock, you have lain in wait for the tribute moneys as the fisherman does for the tunny-fish.
The Knights 2000
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And as she sang, all the tunny-fish came in from the deep to listen to her, and the young Fisherman threw his nets round them and caught them, and others he took with a spear.
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And as she sang, all the tunny-fish came in from the deep to listen to her, and the young Fisherman threw his nets round them and caught them, and others he took with a spear.
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It had been hunting tunny-fish in the Atlantic, oblivious to any danger.
The Golden Torc May, Julian, 1931- 1981
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When I have devoured a good hot tunny-fish and drunk on top of it a great jar of unmixed wine, I hold up the Generals of Pylos to public scorn.
The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1 446? BC-385? BC Aristophanes
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As a furious torrent you have overthrown our city; your outcries have deafened Athens and, posted upon a high rock, you have lain in wait for the tribute moneys as the fisherman does for the tunny-fish.
The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1 446? BC-385? BC Aristophanes
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Then we pursued them with our lance point in their loins as one hunts the tunny-fish; they fled and we stung them in the jaw and in the eyes, so that even now the barbarians tell each other that there is nothing in the world more to be feared than the Attic wasp.
The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2 446? BC-385? BC Aristophanes
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