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  • We also have dog-fish, snake-fish, sea-horses, and as Fly Fish Chick points out, even sea-monkeys.

    Fish 'Should be rebranded as Sea Kittens' Tim Romano 2008

  • And diving through the crowd, the pedagogue vanished howling, while Father Neptune, crowned with sea-weeds, a trident in one hand, and a live dog-fish in the other, swaggered up the street surrounded by a tall bodyguard of mariners, and followed by a great banner, on which was depicted a globe, with

    Westward Ho! 2007

  • No, some fried dog-fish; your quails feed on poison.

    The White Devil 2007

  • No, some fried dog-fish; your quails feed on poison.

    The White Devil 2007

  • At the northeast two other capes closed the bay, and between them ran a narrow gulf, which looked like the half-open jaws of a formidable dog-fish.

    The Mysterious Island 2005

  • At the northeast two other capes closed the bay, and between them ran a narrow gulf, which looked like the half-open jaws of a formidable dog-fish.

    The Mysterious Island 2005

  • Hail the foot-long dog-fish sushi with sauerkraut and pickles! reply

    MySpace, Citysearch Partner To Create MySpace Local Michael Arrington 2005

  • “You like Ava's sculpture?” asked a voice, and since I was sightless, eyes shut, I sensed that the voice was coming from the vicinity of the dog-fish and I couldn't recall Cerberus having the powers of speech, and adding to my confusion, I was sure it was a voice I had heard once before.

    Wake Up, Sir! Jonathan Ames 2004

  • The man, I remember, had grey clothes and kneebreeches and the woman a grey dress, and my nurse had said contemptuously, ‘Tow-rows’—perhaps, before my time, there had been some English song with the burden ‘tow row row’84—and everybody had told me that English people ate skate and even dog-fish, and I myself had only just arrived in England when I saw an old man put marmalade in his porridge.

    Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

  • The man, I remember, had grey clothes and kneebreeches and the woman a grey dress, and my nurse had said contemptuously, ‘Tow-rows’—perhaps, before my time, there had been some English song with the burden ‘tow row row’84—and everybody had told me that English people ate skate and even dog-fish, and I myself had only just arrived in England when I saw an old man put marmalade in his porridge.

    Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

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