It suddenly spread finny hands that were large and wide.

The finny part of her flukes became small shoes.

Violins and celos are finny things, because they have a 'personality'.

The Shadow began to wave his extended hands with a fishlike, finny motion.

The thing that The Shadow saw was making too timely a trip to he some finny creature of the lake.

"The Wall Street and finny varieties both."

To the finny people's king.

"Night fishers summoning the finny ones," he hazarded.

His eyes were fishlike, as they stared straight ahead, and his mouth had an expression that also suited a finny creature.

"By the way, before I left Monaco Bay, I sent our finny friends to see what they could find out."

The bearded and finny Gnorri swam down there, flitting shadows that worked unceasingly on their submarine labyrinths.

"Animals" is a reminder that human beings share the world with four-legged and finny creatures - and, by implication, with winged ones.

She heard Barker say, "If Mr. Ryan and his friends are so concerned about their finny friends, maybe we can arrange dinner together later."

First went a bent-over, bearded fellow, bearing upon his back by its finny tail a great silver tunny as long-bodied as he and even thicker.

For I saw that finny goblin Hidden in the abyss untrod; And I knew there can be laughter On the secret face of God.

With choreography and texts by Ms. Carlson and a cast of dancers and four-legged and finny creatures, "Animals" remains an eloquent creation.

However, "Parents" refuses to leave well enough alone, adopting a ponderous tone as it hints none too delicately that cannibalism is its characters' secret vice (as if driving finny cars weren't bad enough).

Below the time-clock as it sped high over the wavelets, Crow and de Marigny could make out the coral-like labyrinths of the bearded and finny Gnorri, industrious dwellers in crystal depths.

Even before the second Criterion Theater opened in 1936, the rooftop was given over to Wrigley's spearman, surrounded by "finny freaks in a riot of light," as The New York Times put it.

It was the music of the trees and the lesser plants, of the insects and spiders, of the furred and finny creatures that dwelt in the leaves, on the ground, in the earth, or in the cold streams and unstoppable rivers.

In the years just after World War II, Mr. Brown's discoveries made bathroom fixtures and kitchen utensils silvery and put the gloss on the bumpers of the finny automotive monsters Detroit turned out in the 1950's and early 60's.

Mr. Thiesing's pieces deal with the finny inhabitants of the streams and reservoirs, which, he said, serve as a living barometer of the system's health - and also provide a source of recreation for hundreds of fly casters and anglers who prowl the water supply each year.