The sharks and rays form about one seventh of our own fish fauna.
Sharks appear on all parts of the coast, and instances continually occur of persons being seized by them whilst bathing even in the harbours of Trincomalie and Colombo.
They are easily distinguished from the sharks by their broad and flat body, the pectoral fins being expanded like wings on each side of the trunk.
He shouted thus not only for that object, but to keep any sharks which might be inclined to seize us at a distance.
I did as he directed me, but the thought of the horrid sharks I had seen swimming about the vessel, almost paralysed my senses, and every moment I expected to find myself seized by the cruel jaws of one of them.
In the last months of his life he was with difficulty restrained from wading into the river, where sharks were seen, in order to prove to the missionary, Moore, that his person was sacred to them.
Sharks do not seem to have been so common as in the old Atlantic, but it swarmed with large predaceous forms related to the salmon and saury.
While lying on the bottom of the cretaceous sea, the carcass had been dragged hither and thither by the sharks and other rapacious animals, and the parts of the skeleton were displaced and gathered into a small area.
The Hawaiians worshiped individual sharks as demigods, in the belief that the souls of the departed at death, or even before death, sometimes entered and took possession of them, and that they at times resumed human form.
In the conflict that rose the Ewa sharks joined with their human relatives and friends on land to put an end to Miko-lo-lóu.
They came and came, and still kept coming, until it seemed that the whole Pacific was giving up the sharks of the ages gone by to join in the bloody carnival.
Several prisoners having avoided the "bloodhound zone" by swimming, the prison authorities adopted the gruesome but effective expedient of feeding the sharks at that point several times a day.
The sailors called it a pilot-fish, and they informed me that sharks are very seldom without one or two, and that they appear to direct them where to go; this last must be mere conjecture.
They walked on till they toppled into the sea, and the sharks did'nt refuse them, though they prefer a nigger to any thing else.
One who, or that which, has an appetite for human flesh; specifically, one of certain large sharks (esp.
To the sharks and bloodsuckers of seaport towns; to the tawdry sisterhood that spun their nets for Jack ashore; to those women that wheedled the seaman's last cent, and laughed to see him starving in the streets.
Wherever there's a carcass there's sharks to eat it, though you may have sailed a week and not seen a fin; and human sharks have the longest scent of any, especially when they have the law on their side and courts of justice behind them.
However, being quite as polite as Jack, he did not contradict him, but took a huge pinch of snuff, wishing from the bottom of his heart that the ground sharks had taken Jack before he had hoisted that confounded green petticoat.
If the sharks leave an inch of him, bring it to me.
Quite time enough to inquire into the matter after the villain is comfortably sewed up in a hammock with a thirty-pound shot at his heels, and sent to the bottom of the sea for the sharks and crabs to devour.
I was ignorant at the time, however, that there were sharks in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, else I should have been more cautious.
The sea persisted in flinging them upon her bit of sand, and she persisted, until her strength failed, in thrusting them back into the sea where the sharks tore at them and devoured them.
The custom of the woolly-heads of burying their dead in the sea did not tend to discourage the sharks from making the adjacent waters a hangout.
Then small fish-sharks began to bite, and after losing a hook apiece, we hauled in and waited for the sharks to go their way.
But it was mercy thrown away, for the sharks got the three of them.
Also, we made it a rule to take an additional several each time they hove the dead over to the sharks that swarmed about us.
A short length of line was trailing from the rope handle; and I knew that I was good for a day, at least, if the sharks did not return.
The skin of various small sharks and other fishes when having small, rough, bony scales.
In most fishes there is a single opening on each side, but in the sharks and rays there are five, or more, on each side.
It sometimes becomes forty feet in length, being one of the largest sharks known; but it has small simple teeth, and is not dangerous.
An order of elasmobranchs including the sharks and rays; the Plagiostomi.
They adhere firmly to sharks and other large fishes and to vessels by this curious sucker, letting go at will.
But though on shore, at Liverpool, poor Jack finds more sharks than at sea, he himself is by no means exempt from practices, that do not savor of a rigid morality; at least according to law.
Accidents with sharks are of rare occurrence: the noise of 1000 divers on the water at once seeming to scare the animals.
Ultimately the sharks steered clear of any black man who had a knife suspended round his neck.
I would signal to the sharks by opening and washing out a few of the largest fish at the boat's head, sometimes adding bait chopped small to serve for what Australian fishermen call Berley.
I have successively tried the effect of curing skins of sharks in brine, in alcohol, and in the salt-and-alum bath, but the result is always the same.
Simple as it may appear, and really is, the above processes may be applied with slight modifications to even the largest scale fishes, and to the sharks and saw-fishes.
His scale fishes and sharkswere very life-like, but his rays and ray-like Rhinobati were somewhat faulty.
There have been some heroic incidents arising from attacks by sharks on human beings.
Sharks are quite the most dangerous foes of man in Australia.
Sharks are common on the Australian coast, but they will not venture into the broken water of surf beaches.
But this must not be understood in the sense that the existing Amphioxus, or the sharks or amphibia of to-day, can give us any idea of the external appearance of these remote stem-forms.
These ancient cartilaginous fishes agree in most points of structure with the real sharks (Figures 2.
The first and oldest group is the sub-class of the Selachii or primitive fishes; the best-known representatives of which to-day are the orders of the sharks and rays (Figures 2.
It is also found in modified form in some of the actualsharks and pikes.
Well-preserved impressions of other sharks are found in the Jurassic schist, such as of the angel-fish (Squatina, Figure 2.
Among the extinct earliersharks of the Tertiary period there were some twice as large as the biggest living fishes; Carcharodon was more than 100 feet long.
The bodies of the dead were thrown overboard without ceremony, and soon attracted great schools of the fierce sharks that abound in the waters of the tropics.
That very night he came from the hold, crawled stealthily across the deck, and dropped into the water, regardless of the sharks that abound in those tropic seas.
One after another disappeared in the same way; for the sharks had tasted blood, and were not to be appeased.
Well, sir, I've seen some tremendous sharks about in the clear water; and I don't think any one could get any distance without having some of the brutes after him.
Can't make out whether you two got to shore, or were chopped up by thesharks out yonder.
They helped us very kindly and would not let us drink all the iced water we wanted and sent us in to bathe in a place surrounded by piles to keep out the sharks and by a roof to shelter one from the sun.
It had its humorous side and it was very funny, especially as it never turned out otherwise, to see the men scamper when the sharks came in.
The night the Governor asked Somers to dinner and did not ask us we waited up for him and then hung him out over the side of the boat above the sharks until he swore he would never go away from us again.
They walked on till they toppled into the sea, and the sharks didn't refuse them, though they prefer a nigger to anything else.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sharks" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
