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  • New Jersey and Long Islands riders expect to fight their way up broken escalators to begin a salmon-like upstream battle beneath fluorescent lights.

    Beneath Their Stations 2006

  • New Jersey and Long Islands riders expect to fight their way up broken escalators to begin a salmon-like upstream battle beneath fluorescent lights.

    Beneath Their Stations 2006

  • Toward the end of the Miocene about 5 million years ago, species in Oncorhynchus were initiating evolutionary divergence into trout-like species and salmon-like species, leading to the present species of Pacific trout and Pacific salmon.

    Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002

  • Toward the end of the Miocene about 5 million years ago, species in Oncorhynchus were initiating evolutionary divergence into trout-like species and salmon-like species, leading to the present species of Pacific trout and Pacific salmon.

    Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002

  • Toward the end of the Miocene about 5 million years ago, species in Oncorhynchus were initiating evolutionary divergence into trout-like species and salmon-like species, leading to the present species of Pacific trout and Pacific salmon.

    Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002

  • “There she breaches! there she breaches!” was the cry, as in his immeasurable bravadoes the White Whale tossed himself salmon-like to Heaven.

    Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

  • Toward the end of the Miocene about 5 million years ago, species in Oncorhynchus were initiating evolutionary divergence into trout-like species and salmon-like species, leading to the present species of Pacific trout and Pacific salmon.

    Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002

  • "There she breaches! there she breaches!" was the cry, as in his immeasurable bravadoes the White Whale tossed himself salmon-like to

    Great Sea Stories Various 1897

  • Pasturage was there for the horses and mules, and almost without effort food was to be had at the expense of a few cartridges, while very little skill was needed for Griggs and the boys to draw salmon-like and trout-like fish to the banks.

    The Peril Finders George Manville Fenn 1870

  • "There she breaches! there she breaches!" was the cry, as in his immeasurable bravadoes the White Whale tossed himself salmon-like to

    Moby Dick, or, the whale Herman Melville 1855

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