On one occasion as he was crossing, a monstrous conger eel curled itself about him, and the poor cook was in dire alarm.
Alimentary canal, isolated and in section, of Echelus conger, the conger eel.
It was in colour much like a conger eel, and the head, from the mouth being always open, appeared the largest part of the body.
In spite of Leguat's impression, I think it was only some species of conger eel.
It is an open question whether conger eels may not exist, in the ocean depths, of far greater dimensions than those of the largest individuals with which we are acquainted.
Mr. Baker appears to me to have distinctly established the point that the eel and conger are of different species; and from his zeal and activity, I hope the curious problem of the generation of these animals will be solved.
I attend a good deal to Natural History, and I think I have recognised in the Mediterranean a new species of eel, a sort of link between the conger and the muraena of the ancients.
I have no doubt Mr. Baker is right about the distinction between the conger and the common eel.
The water in eight fathoms was as pellucid as glass, and we could see the largeconger eels twisting about between the stones at the bottom, as well as other fish, of which we caught several.
My messmates were all young men, and generally speaking well informed, with the exception of the master, who was a countryman of mine, and desperately fond of doggerel verse as well as cray-fish and conger eels.
This Conger weighed only about sixty pounds: but some of the largest exceed even a hundredweight.
The voracity of the Conger Eel is very great, and it is one of the most powerful enemies with which the fishermen of the British islands have to contend.
I quite astonished myself by my own eloquence, which grew more impassioned as I proceeded, and noticed that the oldconger seemed deeply impressed.
Earlier in the day, I came to a little arrangement (quite a little business affair, by the way) with an old lady conger eel I have known for many years, and it happened in this way.
At the conclusion of my appeal the conger drew in a deep breath and replied:--"Well, I never!
Presently the whale came along, having been hunting for the conger all over the place.
Bravo, good resolution," cried I, and then in moving terms I explained the situation and urged him to take the blue pointlet back to its mother on receiving it from the conger eel.
And Mr. Conger looked as though he might have smiled at his own illustration if he could have spared the time.
He had spent the preceding day at Perritaut, whither Mr. Conger had gone to appear in a case as counsel for Plausaby, for the county-seat had recently returned to its old abode.
And Mr. Conger paused and scrutinized his client closely.
What pleasure he would have in beating Conger some day!
But there was one thing Mr. Conger did understand and care for, and that was success.
And so, when the meek and studious man whom Conger used for a partner called on him, he answered all his questions, and offered no objection to the assumption of the quiet man that Mr. Conger would carry on the case in his own fashion.
Then Mr. Conger smote his knee again, and said "Now!
And Mr. Conger was about leaving the cell when, as if a new thought had occurred to him, he turned back and sat down again and said: "There is one other course open to you.
Here Charlton shuddered, and Mr. Conger was pleased to see that his words took effect.
His imprisonment had already taught him how dear liberty was, and, within half an hour after Conger left him, a great change came over him.
Behind the blaze, with his eye to a crack, Colonel Conger saw Wilkes Booth standing upright upon a crutch.
The last instructions given by Colonel Baker to Colonel Conger and Lieutenant Baker were: 'Don't shoot Booth, but take him alive.
Professor MacMillan was on his way to Fort Conger and it was with much surprise, on arriving there, that he found that Dr.
Upon this young actor's memory would be forever seared the information that the conger eel lays fifteen million eggs at one time and that the inhabitants of Upper Burmah have quaint native pastimes.
Even the prodigal fecundity of the conger eel left him cold.
All the generals made up their minds that the Legations had been captured and the whole lot of you massacred, and it was not until a despatch came down from Conger about ten days before we started, that they really woke up in earnest.
Mr. Conger was allowed to send out a message in cypher.
The conger got entangled in the net; and Digby's first impulse, as his head came above water, was to grapple hold of the fish.
Digby, in his eagerness, leaned over so far with the net that, just as he had got the conger into it, he lost his balance, and in he went heels over head.
The conger was wriggling about all the time, and Power was making every effort to keep his head away from Digby, whom the fish had apparently a strong wish to bite.
This he did most effectually, and a tremendous struggle commenced; the conger trying to bite Digby, and Digby determined not to let him go.
You've got to hit a congerbefore you can knock it down.
Then the congerdisappeared in the sea, but returned again, this time head first, and licked the saint's hand, who blessed it.
An exciting game is on record, but the sensations of the conger are unknown.
The conger wagged his tail, by way of saying he was tired and wanted to be off, so the saint slipped down quite easily--so easily that he found the earth hard when he touched bottom.
Now the conger is very fine and large, and abundant in its season, and the white scars down its sides are the marks of the saint's spurs, which tell the story of the climb.
Porpoises play a game in the sea something like hurling, only instead of a ball they throw a live conger into the air, and the one who catches dodges about until made to throw it up again, and so on, until time is called.
That's a good job, because I've only a bit of conger in the house, and that isn't cooked.
There is a brig on the Conger Rock," said Harry quickly, as if roused to a recollection of that which he had come to say.
Don't keep that piece of conger in this hot room all the morning," he said, pointing with his stick.
These results agree well with those obtained by Greely at Fort Conger and illustrated by a diagram upon p.
He viewed the conger eel and limpets with an avid eye, but waited for the chevalier and de Mauprat to sit.
Conger Eel is little appreciated in this country, although amongst the working class of our neighbors, more particularly the French, it is an article of great consumption.
Conger and two sergeants now entered, and taking up the body, they bore it in haste from the advancing flame, and laid it without upon the grass, all fresh with heavenly dew.
Colonel Conger pushed on immediately for Washington; the cortege was to follow.
Conger put his finger there, when the dying man attempted to cough, but only caused the blood at his perforated neck to flow more, lively.
He made once a motion which the quick eye of Conger understood to mean that his throat pained him.
In the interim Conger had also entered, and while the household and its invaders were thus in weird tableaux, a young man appeared, as if he had risen from the ground.
Behind the blaze, with his eye to a crack, Conger saw Wilkes Booth standing upright upon a crutch.
Conger and Baker kept ahead, riding up to farm-houses and questioning the inmates, pretending to be in search of the Maryland gentlemen belonging to the party.
The fellow began to talk of his innocence and plead so noisily that Conger threatened to gag him unless he ceased.
In the dead stillness, Baker dismounted and forced the outer gate; Conger kept close behind him, and the horsemen followed cautiously.
It should be explained perhaps that Conger was the name of a club of booksellers founded in 1715 for co-operation in the issuing of expensive works.
That book in the phrase of the Conger is best, which sells most; and if the demand for Quarles should be greater than for Pope, he would have the highest place on the rubric-post.
No; but that line'll hold any conger you can catch, and I've got the little chopper in the locker when he comes on board.
How delicious the baked hake was, and how luscious the conger pie!
Let go, and if it's a conger he'll slack the line and come swimming up to see what's the matter.
The Conger Eel of the United States which belongs to this family is often five feet or more in length, while the Conger Eel of Europe is very large, as thick as a man’s leg, and sometimes ten feet long.
My husband has often told Ida the story of your terrible fight with the conger eels, the first time that the party ever sallied forth from the Flying Fish.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "conger" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
