In fact, at that moment she saw her hero stage driver shooting out tobacco squids at the innocent granolithic, which showed no target because so many other contributors had preceded the stage driver.
Like the Sepia, squids also possess the ink-sac, whence they have sometimes been called pen and ink fish, and in German both Sepia and squid and their allies are known as Tinten-fische.
The squids have generally softer and more watery tissues than the Sepia, but the former term is not in general use, and the distinction not generally understood.
In April 1875 one of these large squids occurred off Boffin's Island on the Irish coast.
The calamaries or squids of our British Seas seize their prey in the same manner as Sepia, and the description of one will suffice for both.
When swimming, thesesquids propel themselves backwards by the out-rush of a stream of water from a tube pointed in a direction contrary to that in which the animal is proceeding.
For them it is necessary for accuracy of natation that their soft, and in the squids long bodies, should be supported by such a framework as they possess.
Other accounts probably refer to the giantsquids (Architeuthis).
Note: Some of these squids are very abundant on the Atlantic coast of North America, and are used in large quantities for bait, especially in the cod fishery.
Small squids preserved in alcohol or formalin can be had of all dealers in biological supplies (see p.
The Cete are all predaceous, fish, pelagic crustaceans, and especially squids and cuttlefishes forming their principal food.
In the belemnites and their descendants, the squids and cuttlefish, the cephalopods made the radical change from external to the internal shell.
Like thesquids and cuttlefish, of which it was the prototype, it had an internal calcareous shell.
They appear abundantly in the Mesozoic, but are there represented principally by an extinct group of squids (Belemnites and their allies, Figs.
The Cuttle-fishes and Squids and their allies are, in the modern seas, a most important group (Fig.
Twice, as it happened, snaky, monstrous arms flung themselves up and heaved at the flattop as if the giant squidshoped to overturn even an aircraft carrier by their weight.
Squids alone, among the invertebrates, have eyes like those of land beasts.
In such cases it was assumed that the squids had been attacked at the bottom of the sea and had followed the whale to the surface when it came up in need of air.
There were reports of sections of tentacles four feet thick, implying a startling total size, all of which proved that the whales had been at the bottom of the ocean, where such gigantic squids can be found.
They'd send up giant squids to do battle with men, as men once sent elephants against the Macedonian army.
For instance, how do you suppose they controlled those squids down below?
Whalers, in the old days, had found snouts ofsquids and undigested sections of squids' tentacles in the stomachs of harpooned sperm whales.
The squids have come rushing in, and they bite at those jiggers like a terrier after a rat.
When the squids get those spiked weights in their mouths and are being hauled aboard--look out!
In Norway and Sweden the people have a legend of a peculiar sea-monster, called the Kraken, which was probably founded on some of the enormous squids discovered during the past thirty years.
These squid, when caught, are used for bait, a single fishing smack being known to use as many as eighty thousand squids in a single season.
These large squids are not as common as the smaller ones and they are rarely captured.
Only a few squids come on board to be cooked for breakfast," answered Willy.
Súbad run sa núkus, This is the time the squids are biting.
Some of these squids are very abundant on the Atlantic coast of North America, and are used in large quantities for bait, especially in the cod fishery.
But although Bobby Lot and Billy Topsail kept a sharp lookout for giantsquids wherever they went, they were not rewarded.
As autumn drew near they found other things to think of; the big squids passed out of mind altogether.
The large squids live in the deep sea, and most of the specimens known have been taken from the deep fjords of Newfoundland, which appears to be a favorite locality for them.
In the six and seven footsquids taken at Santa Catalina the stomachs were filled with seaweed, showing that at least some of these animals are vegetarians.
The squids range in size from gigantic specimens seventy or more feet in length to the minute Cranchia, which is luminous at times.
In place of the calcareous cuttlebone of the sepia the squids have their bodies stiffened by an internal strip of chitinous substance called the "pen.
They themselves are devoured by whales, seals, and many kinds of fishes; and enormous quantities of squids of various species are annually collected by fishermen for use as bait in the Newfoundland fisheries.
These suckers in some squids are strengthened by a horny rim, or by recurved hooks, or by both.
Carcasses of these gigantic squids are occasionally cast on the shores of Labrador and Greenland.
Sperm-whales killed by man often eject great quantities of thesquids in their death throes, showing this food to be almost their exclusive diet.
The fishermen of Canada and New England take advantage of this habit and capture great quantities of squids by placing bright lights in the bows of their boats and then rowing toward shore, thus driving the squids out of the water.
The right claimed by American fishing-schooners to purchase squids in Newfoundland has helped to keep alive the quarrel between Canadian and American fishermen, which has vexed their respective governments for many years.
The squids enter the weirs for the purpose of capturing the young mackerel which are caught in these traps.
On bright moonlight nights squids often go ashore in vast numbers, and perish within a few inches of their native element, which they seem to be unable to regain.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "squids" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
