It was not so long as the swordfish he had lately swallowed, but it was thick and massive-looking; and it was blunt at the ends, unlike any fish he had ever seen.
And once in awhile a shark or swordfish would rush down, as a hawk swoops from the upper sky, to harry their array.
He nevertheless remembered, that about this time, having approached Swordfish Beach, attracted by an unusual noise there, he had seen it covered with soldiers and sailors, doubtless Spaniards.
Notwithstanding his piratical sentiments, the captain of the Swordfishhas not designed to precede exile by confiscation.
He thought he distinguished a multitude of barques and canoes furrowing the surface of the waters; not far from Swordfish Beach, the flotilla enters a little cove running up into the mountains.
The best member of the crew of the brig Swordfish came away when I did.
But the swordfish shook his head, and said he could not think of any one who would answer the description.
Accordingly they bade a friendly farewell to the swordfish and his daughter, and continued their voyage.
A couple of days after this they met the swordfishand his daughter.
The swordfish greeted them kindly, and invited them to come down and make him a visit.
These much resemble swordfish in form and habits, and they have been known to strike boats in the same way.
The swordfish undergoes great change in the process of development, the very young having the head armed with rough spines and in nowise resembling the adult.
An oldswordfish fisherman told Mr. Blackford that his vessel had been struck twenty times.
The pugnacity of the swordfish has become a byword.
The swordfish follows the schools of mackerel to the New England coasts.
The swordfish swims near the surface, allowing its dorsal fin to appear, as also the upper lobe of the caudal.
They are excellent as food, similar to the swordfish in this as in many other respects.
The snout in the swordfish is still longer, more perfectly consolidated, and a still more effective weapon of attack.
He dressed himself with more than usual care, and walked down to the wharf where the Swordfish was moored.
He had no sooner reached the deck of the Swordfish than he asked for the young person who had just been put on board.
The two young men who had met in so unexpected a manner on board the ship Swordfish had been reasonably discreet in relating their adventures.
In theswordfish and its relatives, the sailfish and the spearfish, the bones of the anterior part of the head are grown together, making an efficient organ of attack.
Jimson, who has been working on swordfish for some time, is anxious to try and capture a large specimen and is going out with a swordfish sloop next week.
But if you wanted to find out all the strange habits of fishes," continued his friend, as the schooner ran into New Bedford harbor, "it would take more time than one swordfish trip would give you.
The captain walked aft, saw that everything was clear on deck, then stepped forward and walked out on the bowsprit to the 'pulpit,' the characteristic feature of a swordfish schooner.
Once again, as before, that great mass of dynamic energy hurled itself at the boat, but twenty yards away there came a sudden check and the swordfish dived.
Plenty of people had their own favorites, the white shark and the killer whale among others, but when it came to a sort of informal vote, the swordfish was chosen almost unanimously.
You knew that the swordfish was the Monarch of all the Fish?
But there was no resistance, the keg revolved as the sword struck it, and the swordfish shot into the air.
At dinner Colin turned the conversation to swordfish and their ways.
There was no advantage in going aloft, however, until toward noon, when, the water being still, the swordfish come up to sun themselves.
But the resistance that the barrel full of air at the end of the long line gave was great and even the powerful swordfish could not tow it for long.
At the same instant the keg around which the line had been wound was thrown overboard, and the water flew up like a fine jet from the rapid revolutions of the barrel as the swordfish sped away with the line.
But the club reports that the swordfish steak, of which it partook as per Mr. Clarke's suggestion, did not appeal so strongly to its taste.
Swordfish steak, we feel, is probably a taste acquired by long and diligent application.
The Colonel discoursed learnedly on the superior sport of muskellunge- fishing, which prompted Bryce to enter into a description of going after swordfish among the islands of the Santa Barbara channel.
Pleasant Cove again, and the Corner House girls became quite used to the methods of the fishermen and the tactics of the swordfish on being struck.
I suppose theswordfish shy at the motorboats just like the horses shy at automobiles!
A swordfish has been known to thrust its weapon through the bottom of a boat and break it off in its struggles to get free.
A motorboat engine would scare every swordfish within a league of the Banks--so he says.
The only time he ever went out in a double-ender as fur as the swordfish banks, he was so sick they had ter bring him ashore on a stretcher!
Dave growled and veered the Swordfisharound toward the shadow of the undersea craft.
As though by mutual agreement all three in the navigation room glanced down out of the porthole at the disc of frothy white water that marked where the Fairey Swordfish had met her end.
Well, some trick, is all I've got to say," Dave grunted and climbed the Swordfish slightly for a better look.
And speaking of Standers, he's sure going to tear out his hair when he doesn't get this Fairey Swordfish back.
Even as he saw what the exploding shell from the mysterious submarine's gun had done, he slammed on opposite control hard and slowly got the Swordfish back onto even keel.
It had obviously crash-dived once the Swordfish had been hit.
When the girls had eaten a hearty meal of fried swordfish steak, baked potatoes, blueberry pie, and coffee, and had settled themselves in their rooms, they were for the most part ready for a good long sleep.
Her clam chowder, swordfish steaks, and home-fried chicken were famous.
The swordfishwere wonderful creatures--some of them apparently ten feet in length, with an ivory spear six or eight feet long projecting from their noses.
Jack remembered having heard once of a swordfish attacking a ship, which seemed strange indeed; but as they are often in the habit of attacking whales, perhaps it mistook the ship for one.
This swordfish ran against the vessel with such force that it drove its sword quite through the thick planks; and when the ship arrived in harbour, long afterwards, the sword was found still sticking in it!
We had gone one morning about the southern cape, and were harpooning swordfish and the gigantic sunfish when a commotion a thousand feet away brought shouts of warning from my companions.
Far off in the path of the flambeau rays I saw the swordfish leaping as they pursued small fish or gamboled for sheer joy in the luminous air.
Wearying of the spear, we trolled for swordfish with hook and line, or used the baitless hook to entice the sportful albicore, or dolphin, whose curving black bodies splashed the sea about us.
Suddenly half a dozen of the swordfish began jumping about us, as if stirred to anger by our torch.
You flew that Fairey Swordfish to occupied France and returned in a Messerschmitt to trail Air Marshal Manners down from London.
That Swordfish plane was assigned to one Flight Lieutenant Barker who has been at this Base for the last six months.
It was not enough, though, for the mysterious Swordfish pilot to know that the Fulmar was crippled and going down.
Then how in the world were you able to steal that Fairey Swordfish plane and follow us down to that rendezvous area for the raider and her wolf-pack of U-boats?
Whether it was Freddy's convincing argument, or whether it was the fact that the Swordfish was no longer a perfect target, Dave didn't really know.
Before Dave could pick up sufficient speed to do any fast maneuvering the Swordfish came ripping in again with its guns spewing out jetting streams of flame.
That bum in that Fairey Swordfish proved that to me.
All my fault for not letting you get that blasted Fairey Swordfish when you had him cold.
The Fairey Swordfish had Seventy-Four markings, you know.
It also knew that a Fairey Swordfishwas going to shoot us down.
Because, why should that Fairey Swordfish suddenly start popping up into our lives?
But that enemy's eyes, with their enormous bulging surface and the jetty background to their lenses, could see clearly where the jewel-like eyes of the young swordfish could make out nothing.
So swift was the swordfish (he was a kind of giant mackerel, with all the mackerel's grace and fire and nimbleness) that he seemed to be everywhere at once.
The huge concussions drove the swordfish from the surface, and for a minute or two he swam around her in a wide circle, about twenty feet down, trying to get the hang of these queer tactics.
The swordfish carries his sword not in his tail, but on the tip of his snout more like a bayonet than a sword.
He had no concern to those swordfish when there was tender and delicious squid to be had; for the Inkmaker, you know, was just a kind of big squid, or cuttlefish.
The Babe shuddered again, and wished that the beautiful swordfish would swim away as quickly as possible from the slimy horror.
Only the swordfish paid no attention to that tremendous and desperate cry.
Whatever has been putting swordfishinto your head?
The swordfish now made off, possibly alarmed by the tremendous splashing and the too-near approach to land.
The boy and girl who were endangering their lives by playing in the high rolling surf were the very ones who had followed the swordfish the day before.
Angling for swordfish with a kite is a sport indulged in by expert fishermen all along the Atlantic coast.
There was money in the box, the last of the swordfish money.
I can now spend the swordfish money with a good conscience.
Swordfish had been reported off Monhegan; in fact Captain Field had brought in a modest-sized one only the day before.
When a swordfish is hooked its rushes are desperate, even reckless, and at times dangerous to the angler.
The snout of the swordfish is continued into a long, sharp bone, which measured from the back of the mouth is about one-fourth of the length of the fish from the mouth to the base of the tail.
Instead of meeting her consorts in the cloud of early morning, the Swordfish was scarcely abreast of the Southern Cheek by the middle of the afternoon.
It was pretty to see the three cutters meet, all handled as smartly as possible; for the Flamborough man had cast off his clog, and the Swordfish again was as nimble as need be.
The Kestrel and Albatross will come to speak the Swordfish off Robin Hood's Bay, at that very hour, as we happen to be aware.
We-ll, that particular one got a wrong start and ended up by bein' a whale, but I shouldn't wonder if we could find a swordfish if we looked.
The child took the miniature swordfish and inspected it carefully.
Returning to the outer room, he found his recent visitor, the swordfish under one arm and the doll under the other, standing in the aisle between the stacked mills and vanes and looking, so it seemed to him, considerably perturbed.
Oh, I forgot; Captain Hedge liked hisswordfish EVER so much.
I've been turnin' out another school of swordfish and whales, too.
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