shoals

Large ships also lack the ability to operate close the the shore and in shoals or deltas when necessary, as well as not having providing the tactical ability to flush out smaller crafts.

Matthew Yglesias » A Piece of the Action 2010

Marilyn sez, "In an experiment at the U. of Padua last year, female mosquito fish preferred to join shoals that were larger by just one fish, 'preferring shoals of four fish rather than three fish, and consistently preferring shoals of three fish over those containing just two.'"

Boing Boing 2008

Throughout the following century, revolutionaries of all stripes would be buffeted against the twin shoals of optimism and disillusionment.

Archive 2007-11-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2007

Throughout the following century, revolutionaries of all stripes would be buffeted against the twin shoals of optimism and disillusionment.

The long grave already dug Matthew Guerrieri 2007

Vegetation creeps rapidly over the ravaged environs, and strangest of all, fish in shoals unnumbered find their way mysteriously into the new pool, doubtless through subterranean channels, making it a paradise for the angler.

The Mystery at Number Six 1922

Fishes go in shoals, bees in swarms, cattle in herds, and the normal man is gregarious.

Janey Canuck in the West Emily Ferguson 1910

As I approached Cape Town, my many friends came out in shoals to meet us, and I was received in the metropolis of the Cape by every public demonstration of affection – ever so gratifying to the soldier who has worked hard to serve his country – from the noble Governor, Sir Benjamin D'Urban, to the mendicant.

The Autobiography of Liuetenant-General Sir Harry Smith, Baronet of Aliwal on the Sutlej, G. C. B. 1903

Some they take up as with the hook, one by one; others in shoals, as in a "net" and "drag" or enclosing net. therefore -- because of their successes. they rejoice -- They glory in their crimes because attended with success

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

Nay, the fishes of the sea shall be taken away, or gathered together, that they may go away in shoals to some other coast, and then the fishing trade will be worth nothing.

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721

Some they take up with the angle (v. 15), one by one; others they catch in shoals, and by wholesale, in their net, and gather them in their drag, their enclosing net.

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721