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Example sentences for "the fish"

  • It was only a further development of the fish form of structure.

  • Why not catch and preserve the fish at home, and get the entire benefit of the fish traffic?

  • Nature seems to have furnished us with the finest design for a vessel in the form of the fish: it presents such fine lines--is so clean, so true, and so rapid in its movements.

  • The slant of light burnishing the roof of the church to silver and flooding the pavement of the open square, crowded with black figures, the white caps of the fish-women indicated by crisp pats of the brush, pleased our painter immensely.

  • He had finished the corn, thrown the cobs to the fish, and was beginning on the doughnuts, when a step on the planking above him caused him to look up.

  • One view of the fish-market at Dieppe caught Oliver's eye.

  • When the smoke puffs up in little rings like that, Dad's studyin' the fish.

  • Manuel, stooping to the fish, and bringing one up with a finger under its gill and a finger in its eyes.

  • Harvey cried, as the fish came in gasping and splashing--nearly all poke-hooked, as Dan had said.

  • I, who was rash, did not hesitate to follow her; but swam my horse over, and mounted on the back of the fish.

  • So saying, Alcina pointed to the fish, which we all supposed to be an island.

  • The first Avatar was as Matsya, the Fish, under which form Vishnu preserved Manu, the ancestor of the human race, during a universal deluge.

  • Kay and Bedwyr went upon the shoulders of the fish, whilst the warriors of Arthur attacked the castle.

  • But the Knight of the Fish knew no fear, and had never turned his back on an enemy; so he drew out his horn, and blew a blast.

  • It was quite dry inside the shell, and I worked away at the fish with my spear, till he saw reason to open his shell, and out I came.

  • The princess had not known, when she obeyed the orders of the Knight of the Fish, what she expected to happen.

  • The smell of the tobacco is more sweet than the smell of the fish.

  • The first day it was at the Island House; we were trolling for ouananiche, and she was not pleased, for she lost many of the fish.

  • As the fish came up to the side of the canoe, Patrick netted him deftly, exclaiming with an abstracted air, "It is a boy, after all.

  • He must wait upon the weather, and the height of the water, and the hunger of the fish, and many other accidents of which he has no control.

  • This was only one of the fish yarns he told.

  • They'd had supper up at the fish man's at the Centre, so after Peter T.

  • I have somewhere read that the islanders in the north of Scotland treat the rank carcasses of the fish-eating birds in the same manner.

  • These Holuthuriae, the fish, the numerous burrowing shells, and nereidous worms, which perforate every block of dead coral, must be very efficient agents in producing the fine white mud which lies at the bottom and on the shores of the lagoon.

  • The fish, having remained in this distended state for a short time, generally expelled the air and water with considerable force from the branchial apertures and mouth.

  • Abdullah handed to him three handfuls of jewels out of the fish-basket and going home, set it down there.

  • Each and every approved of the Fish's advice and betook themselves in a body to the Crab, whom they found squatted in his hole, without news or knowledge of their strait.

  • The king hearing it immediately prohibited for the present the execution of the Brßhman, and asked Vararuchi the reason why the fish laughed.

  • Then I made known to them the story of the piece of lead which I had given to the fisherman and of the diamond found in the fish's belly; brief, I told them every whit even as I have now related to thy Highness.

  • My wife then told her how she had found it in the fish's belly, whereupon quoth the Jewess, "This bit of glass is more excellent than all other sorts of glass.

  • Quoth she, "This I found within the belly of the fish as I was gutting it.

  • The fish-pond lay still and dark, reflecting the moon.

  • And what is worse than that, he comes every night, and drinks up the fish-pond, and leaves the fishes exposed, so that for the most part they die before the water returns again.

  • The birds do fly, the fish do swim, The bees collect honey, worms do crawl, Every thing travails to obtain its food, Except minstrels and lazy useless thieves.

  • Kai and Bedwyr went upon the shoulders of the fish, whilst the warriors of Arthur attacked the castle.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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