mud-fish

In these ponds a species of mud-fish, was found, off one of which I made a meal, by no means to be despised by one who had not tasted fish since leaving Bagamoyo.

How I Found Livingstone Henry Morton 2004

Probably, if I had my choice, being, when occasion demands it, rather fastidious in my tastes, I would not select the mud-fish.

How I Found Livingstone Henry Morton 2004

Then there are “slimy things that crawl with legs upon a slimy sea,” and any quantity of hopping mud-fish, and crabs, and a certain mollusc, and in the water various kinds of cat-fish.

Travels in West Africa 2003

Long ago, when the various kinds of animals dwelt together in a kind of community, a dalag (a kind of mud-fish), a dragonfly, a wasp, and

Filipino Popular Tales Dean Spruill Fansler

It says that the mind of man, with all its wonderful attributes and faculties, was evolved from the mind of the lower animals -- and he goes as low as the mud-fish and the eel that live in the slime of the swamps.

Evolution An Investigation and a Critique Theodore Graebner 1913

From mud-fish the amphibian would naturally develop, as it did in the coal-forest period.

The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science Various 1909

I asked, and they answered that the man who truly had enjoyed such tramping to and fro was no soldier but a mud-fish.

Hira Singh : when India came to fight in Flanders Talbot Mundy 1909

"Feedin 'mud-fish to de wile-cat, de wile lynx-cat, suh."

The Firing Line 1899

And I'll tell old Jonas to give you lots and lots of delicious mud-fish for your dinner to-night -- yes, I will, my friend.

The Firing Line 1899

One day I decided to go and explore one of the islands that studded Cambridge Gulf, in search of a kind of shell mud-fish which I was very partial to.

Adventures of Louis de Rougemont Fitzgerald, F Scott 1899