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Definition of Goldfishes
1. goldfish [n] - See also: goldfish
Lexicographical Neighbors of Goldfishes
Literary usage of Goldfishes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Third Reading-book by Eben Harlow Davis (1890)
"THE THREE goldfishes. A good man once had three goldfishes, —the prettiest little
fishes in the world. He kept them in a clear pond, and took great pleasure ..."
2. The ... [first-fourth] Reading-book by Eben Harlow Davis (1890)
"THE THREE goldfishes. A good man once had three goldfishes, —the prettiest little
fishes in the world. He kept them in a clear pond, and took great pleasure ..."
3. Lowell Leaflets: Poems and Prose Passages from the Works of James Russell by James Russell Lowell, Josephine E. Hodgdon (1896)
"... HOW I CONSULTED THE ORACLE OF THE goldfishes. WHAT know we of the world immense
Beyond the narrow ring of sense ? What should we know, who lounge about ..."