Old Shark did seem more like a shark than a trout as he paused within an inch of the fly and then sank back into the shadows from which he had come.
Old Shark was a sensation and Pat Haley began at once to freeze him in a block of ice.
They took old shark on their seventh trip to the ledge.
This ain't where Old Shark lives, but it's a darn' good place to show you how to lay a fly on the water.
Old Shark rose and Bud saw him, a great, dark shadow that left the shaded bank and rose into the clear water upstream from the leaning sycamore.
Bud knew he would never forget the battle that followed or the plucking of Old Shark from shallow water when Gramps had finally worked him there.
Down there Old Shark hangs out 'neath that sycamore trunk.
Ten minutes later he was glad that Gramps was so eager to fish for Old Shark that he thought of nothing else.
When Pat's finished and everybody who wants a look at Old Shark has had it, we'll send him down to the orphanage.
For Bud the fawn was outside the laws of nature, but with the taking of Old Shark he had learned the difference between sport for sport's sake and killing for killing's sake.
Saying aforehand what Old Shark will hit is like saying it will rain on the seventh of May two years from now.
But it was hopeless because after the conquest of Old Shark he had stopped wearing shoes.
But while the work won't end, Old Shark will if I lay another fly into him.
On looking downwards I saw a great shark in the water, almost within snapping distance of my legs.
A negro takes a large knife and diving under the shark cuts its bowels open.
As may be imagined, this report created a real panic among the painters, for I believe we all feared a shark more than an enemy armed to the teeth.
A shark somewhat reminds me of the torpedo of the present day, and in my humble opinion is much more dangerous.
If the water is deep the shark can go lower down than the man and so save himself, and if the nigger don't take care he will eat him; thus the black man never goes into deep water if he can help it, for he is always expecting a shark.
I hit him, I am sure," cried Roger, as the shark sank.
Without recollecting the shark they had seen in the morning, without thinking of any danger to himself, his ardent desire being to save his friend, he plunged overboard.
He had held a large hook overboard, with a bait, but no line, and a shark 7 feet long was caught and hauled on board.
We had caught a shark twelve feet long at the Poul that day, and the shark fairly divided my thoughts with Mrs. Lovyes.
You had caught a shark that day, and you told me of it.
Longitudinal section through the blastula of a shark (Pristiuris).
Head of a shark embryo (Pristiurus), one-third of an inch long, magnified twenty times.
Longitudinal section of the blastula of a shark (Pristiurus) at the beginning of gastrulation.
We sometimes find extraordinarily large eggs with strong envelopes in the case of other animals, such as fishes of the shark type.
This membrane is highly developed and of great service in some of our distant relations, such as fishes of the shark type and several other vertebrates; in us it is shrunken and useless.
This placenta of the shark was looked upon as legendary for a long time, until Johannes Muller proved it to be a fact in 1839.
Pandaguan was the first to invent a net for fishing at sea; and, the first time when he used it, he caught a shark and brought it on shore, thinking that it would not die.
So he floated on while the boom of the breakers grew ever nearer, companioned by his wild, fretful thoughts, till at length what he took to be a shark appeared quite close to him, and in the urgency of the moment he gave up wondering.
It proved to be only a piece of wood, but later on a real shark did come, for he saw its back fin.
Well," the man called Mac admitted, "I do hate to see a shark get away with anything but the hook.
The thought that a pork-faced old mortgage shark should get the ranch that had been his father's was bitter.
He was accompanied by two pilot-fish, whose attachment to the shark is wonderful.
My contemplations were interrupted by a sight that made the peaceful sleep rather doubtful--the dorsal fin of a shark peering above the surface as the ship glided by.
As for rhinodon, a gigantic shark of the Indian Ocean, he has been actually measured to a length of fifty feet, and is stated often to attain seventy.
Just so a dolphin looks externally very like a fish, in head and tail and form and movement; its flippers closely resemble fins; and nothing about it seems to differ very markedly from the outer aspect of a shark or a codfish.
To swallow an oyster is, in our own personal histories, so very different a thing from being swallowed by a shark that we can hardly realise at first the underlying fundamental identity of eating with mere coalescence.
They killed a hammer shark for his amusement by diving under the monster and stabbing him with knives.
A fathom deep, in the ship's shadow, some shark or other monster sailed slowly by in an envelope of spectral lustre.
It happened that a cross-eyed, ill-natured shark was trying to tempt a young whale to swim that stream from end to end.
The shark boasted that he had swum through the stream himself, but of course it was only real fishes that could do it.
It is at present called "The Shark and the Alligator," but may be altered with equal effect to "The Mayor and the Agitator.
I'll bet six live niggers to a dead 'coon, our genuine Yankee clippers will whip them into as bad a fix as a flying-fish with a gull at his head and a shark at his tail.
And presently the Shark said: "Why have you made the line fast to my tail?
But presently he dragged the Shark up on to the dry beach, and made butcher's meat of him.
Presently there came up a youngShark who exclaimed, "I'll have a meal off you this time at all events.
PART OF THE LOWER JAW OF A SHARK (Galeus) (from OWEN after ANDRE).
The remarkable velocity of this fish was surprising to me, who had never before seen a deep-sea shark in his native element.
Ichthyologists declare that these fish attend the shark for the purpose of preying upon the parasites that infest him.
I once had for a shipmate a man who swore hard and fast that he once found in a shark a ship's chronometer that was still ticking.
A running bowline was sent down the line that held him, and as the shark was hoisted over the side it was passed over his body and hauled taut round his tail, in order to control the movements of this his most formidable weapon.
In this the shark shows excellent taste and judgment, for the "salt junk" served out to seafarers is by no means a succulent or dainty dish.
I preserved them for many years as a souvenir of my first deep-sea voyage and of the first shark I had seen hooked.
The only people aboard the Rajah that ate shark for supper that night were the Captain and the spinner of this yarn.
Of course a sharkis one of the most ravenous and rapacious of fishes, and queer articles have undoubtedly been discovered in their stomachs.
In China, nobody objects to take the fin of a Shark, but in this country, when a Shark extends his fin to an honest man, it is always rejected with contempt.
If a sailor falls overboard, the Contiguous Shark considers it a casus belli, and immediately makes a pitch at the tar, with the intention of putting itself outside of him.
I laugh great deal, and tella him Japanee mans much prefer bird nest soup and shark fin.
The Bottle-Nose Shark is to be found in every harbor--generally in the vicinity of the Bar.
Royson did not resemble the type of land shark with which he was familiar.
Applying the rule of three to such a tooth as this would give a shark 120 feet long, bigger than most whales, to whom a man would be but a mouthful, just enough to whet his sharkship's appetite.
Now a tooth of this shark is an inch and a quarter long, while a tooth of the huge Megalodon is commonly three, often four, and not infrequently five inches long.
It takes five teeth of the blue shark to fill the same number of inches.
In the United States National Museum, the jaws of a twelve-foot blue shark are shown for comparison.
Contemporary with the great-toothed shark was another and closely related species that originated with him in Eocene times, and these two may possibly have had something to do with the extinction of Zeuglodon.
The shark was taken safely ashore and Sam, showing his prize under canvas, reaped another harvest, only not so large as in the case of the whale.
There was one wild, convulsive lashing of the tail, one final tremendous effort on the part of the shark to break away.
It was he came off and gave us warning that the Shark was coming round upon us the day Kennedy was done; and he told us how Kennedy had given the information.
He questioned her in an undertone, looking at Mannering--'A shark alongside, eh?
There were no white playmates, and he was not allowed to go near the lagoon, lest the shark get him or he eat of forbidden fruit.
The outlet through this swamp was so narrow that a shark which had found its way in when young had grown too large to return whence he came, and was the solitary and discontented inhabitant of the lagoon.
Just after his sixth birthday, however, several changes occurred in his life: Peter Lytton sent him a pony, his father killed the shark and gave him a boat, and he made the acquaintance of the Rev.
He had scampered up the hill to his mother's skirts as fast as his legs could carry him, nor visited the lagoon again until the shark was mouldering on its bed.
Money I know is a great temptation, and so is mate when trusted to a shark like him; but any way, may the Lord pardon the blackguard!
