The orca was by no means hungry so soon after the feast which she had made on the giant ray, but the succulent morsel of the squid was a temptation not to be resisted.
Such attention as she could spare from the baby charms of her calf was given to searching the transparent deeps below her, where lurked the big squid and sluggish, bottom-feeding fish on which she habitually preyed.
But before she could reach him, the squid looked up and saw her.
The progress of the squid was backward; and he achieved it, not by moving his tentacles, but by sucking a volume of water into a great muscular sac beneath the tentacles and forcibly expelling it again.
The squid enveloped the jig with its tentacles and would be whisked aboard squirting sepia in protest.
Has a giant squid attacked us, as one did some time ago, and is he roiling up the water?
They were as black as sweeps when the flurry ended; but a pile of fresh squid lay on the deck, and the large cod thinks very well of a little shiny piece of squid tentacle at the tip of a clam-baited hook.
They were waked out of their bunks one black night by yells of "Squid O!
Hook squid, any squid which has the arms furnished with hooks, instead of suckers, as in the genera Enoploteuthis and Onychteuthis.
Defn: The clusters of gelatinous egg capsules of a squid (Loligo).
Any large cephalopod, as a large Octopus, or a giantsquid (Architeuthis).
Barrels and barrels of flapping squid and mackerel were emptied into the big motor boat anchored alongside of it.
There's apt to be a big catch of squidworth going to see, and I'll finish the story on the way.
Blackened by the fire, squid and crustacean were eaten without condiment, the tentacles being devoured as one eats celery.
With the main course were served dried squid and porpoise, and fresh flying-fish and bonito and shrimp.
How much do the squid cost when you buy them for bait?
Then he told them what he wanted it for--he wanted to send the giantsquid to the Royal Society in London.
Oh, this is the place where the fishermen gather, With oilskins and boots and Cape Anns battened down; All sizes and figures with squid lines and jiggers, They congregate here on the squid-jigging ground.
He's jiggin' one now, The very first squid on the squid-jiggin' ground.
There in the diffused glare from the search light and the illumination of their helmet lamps they saw, wrapped about the forward shaft opening a gigantic squid or devil fish.
Then the water about it suddenly grew black, and the boys and the professor were in dense darkness, for the squid had dyed the ocean with a dark liquid from the sack it carried for the purpose.
I presume you mean that a giant squid or cuttle fish has attacked us," spoke the professor.
The great wonder is how one small squid can lay so great a mass of eggs.
The egg masses of the squid are always to be found on the island during the months of May and June.
Atlantic pilot whales feed primarily on squid but also take cod and other fishes.
Sperm whales feed primarily on squid but may occasionally also take octopuses and a variety of fishes.
Saddleback dolphins feed on squid and on a variety of fishes, including anchovies, myctophids, and hake.
False killer whales feed primarily on squid and large fishes and are notorious for their habit of stealing fish from the lines of fishermen.
Atlantic spotted dolphins feed primarily on squid but may also take carangid fishes, small eels, herring, or anchovies.
If in danger, the squid pours an inky secretion, which is the sepia of commerce, into the siphon, and the secretion is swept out into the water in a cloud which spreads rapidly, to the confusion of any following enemy.
In a specimen of the giant squid which I handled and measured, the long arms were about thirty feet in length.
The tongue of the squid is a ribbon with teeth upon it.
The squid has a shell, but it is very small, and internal.
The squid has a siphon which terminates in a tube, opening beneath the head.
In swimming, the squid rarely if ever rests upon the bottom, but takes in water around the edge of the mantle and ejects it with more or less force from the siphon, and thus the squid is driven along, tail foremost.
Projecting forward are two long, slender arms, and eight shorter ones, which in the giant squid are from six to ten feet in length.
The typical squid or cuttlefish has a barrel-shaped body, and a tail resembling an arrowhead.
In a specimen six feet long, which I kept for an hour alive in a large tank, some idea of the strength of a squid could be obtained.
Squid live largely on small fishes which they catch with the tentacles, biting them with a pair of parrot-like jaws.
Perceiving, however, that the squid made no effort to follow, they got the better of their fright Then they lay on their oars to watch the monster.
He proposed to put Bobby ashore, and approach the squid alone; but Bobby would not listen.
The son was Bobby Lot, with whom, subsequently, Billy Topsail shared the adventure of the giant squid of Chain Tickle.
The squid had fastened one of its tentacles to the punt.
The squid were in the harbour, and the fish were taking the bait in lively fashion.
Bobby shuddered as he looked at the tiny squid in his hand, and thought of the dreadful possibilities in one a thousand times as big.
The squid lay below, and some twenty feet out from the rock.
That afternoon Billy put out in his leaky old punt to "jig" squid for bait.
Billy Topsail did not know what a cephalopod was; but he did know a squid when he saw its picture, for Ruddy Cove is a fishing harbour, and he had caught many a thousand for bait.
Bobby picked a squid from the heap in the bottom of the boat.
Some fishermen use squid for tuna bait, but I don't t'ink much of ze idea.
An' a squid has ten arms, but an octopus has jus' eight.
No mud," said the boatman, "zat's sepia ink ze squidhas squirted so as to hide.
Moving very slowly and beating the seaweed as they went, little by little the two drove the hosts of squid back through the kelp to a narrow bay, the water being turned to a muddy brownish-black by the discharge of the ink-bags.
Ze squid has got hold of ze bottom," said the boatman with a laugh.
The squid were of fair size, ranging from one to four feet in length, of which the body was about one-third.
The squid I've seen on the Atlantic coast don't often grow bigger than twelve inches.
Isn't that Squid Murphy over there in the corner, trying to disguise himself as a corner of that safe?
He cleared the roped guard and the two fallen hoods, landed lightly on the balls of his feet within a yard of Squid Murphy.
Delancy caught it with one arm and a belly and passed it back through the door to Squid Murphy who was standing just outside.
Crouching beside Squid Murphy, Delancy felt the heat of its barrel and saw the black periods that were bullet holes speckling the gray steel sides of the truck.
All of Delancy's star gunsels were there--Squid Murphy, Shiv and the rest.
His gloved fingers closed on Squid Murphy and the killer called Shiv simultaneously.
He was twisted around in the front seat, looking over the heads of Squid Murphy and the two other gunsels in the back seat.
That same hand shot out toward the bag of diamonds, lingered over its open mouth a moment before it clenched into a fist and hammered to the point of Squid Murphy's jaw.
It was all to no purpose, however, for Billy obstinately declared that he would make sure of the squid before the tide turned.
So when he found that to the lay mind a squid and a cephalopod were one and the same, save in size, he read the long article from beginning to end, doing the best he could with the strange, long words.
The squid had been caught in the shallow tickle when the tide, which ran swiftly at that point, was on the ebb.
Here, however, in plain print, was described the capture of a giant squid in a bay which lay beyond a point of land that Billy could see from the window.
Perceiving, however, that thesquid made no effort to follow, they got the better of their fright.
There was less light than before, but still sufficient to disclose the baleful eyes and writhing arms of the squid when the boat was yet a safe distance away.
Billy Topsail did not know what a cephalopod was; but he did know a squid when he saw its picture, for Ruddy Cove is a fishing harbor, and he had caught many a thousand for bait.
But it occurred to Bobby that they might land, and approach the squid from behind.
It is pointed out to-day just outside of Wailuanui, where a stone formation resembles the body of a squid and the arms, with one missing.
The squid also were speared by the skilful fishermen, and were eaten stewed, or salted and sun-dried and roasted on the coals.
Save me from the bloody virgin-eater, and I will catch the squid and beat the kapa for thee all my days.
They found the wreck about a mile north of Squid Beach, close against the face of the cliff.
Why bain't ye over to Squid Beach, standin' yer trick at look-out?
One part was given, or laid aside, for every man who had been to the Squid Rocks; two parts went to each of the men who had accompanied the skipper to the brig itself, and four were kept by the skipper.
The skipper hoped, in time (should the experiment prove successful at the mouth of the harbor), to rig the dangerous and productive archipelago off Squid Beach and Nolan's Cove with similar contrivances.
An hour later the bully threaded the rocks off Squid Beach.
Late in March a French brig, bound for St. Pierre, went ashore on the Squid Rocks to the north of Chance Along.
The dirtysquid bes as full o' gold an' riches as any marchant.
Now I'll jist shape me course 'round beyant the harbor an' see if they squid be up to any divilment or no.
After the snowy gale, during the day of still, bitter cold, relief parties went to Squid Beach and Nolan's Cove and brought in the half-frozen watchers.
About a mile and a half beyond the Squid Rocks they found a little sheltered cove that was no more than a pocket in the cliff.
The squid is caught by jigging up and down a lead weight filled with wire spikes and painted bright red.
It was soon solved by his reappearance with the vessel filled with the small salted squid (ika).
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "squid" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
