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Dissection of - Male - [Female] Dog-Fish to show alimentary canal, the pericardium also being opened and the cloaca slit up.
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Simplified figure of the embryonic circulation, for comparison with the similar figures annexed to Dog-Fish and Rabbit.
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The Picked Dog-Fish, _Squalus acanthias_ or Bone Dog (Sussex),
Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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So it is called from its resemblance of a _Dog_, and its fatness like to a _Swine_: though most term it a _Dog-Fish_.
Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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Black-mouthed Dog-Fish, _Scyllium melanostomum_ ii 495 or Eyed Dog-Fish
Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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"He must have been swallowed by the terrible Dog-Fish, who for some days past has been spreading devastation and ruin in our waters."
Pinocchio The Tale of a Puppet Carlo Collodi 1858
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"I am the Tunny, your prison companion in the body of the Dog-Fish."
Pinocchio The Tale of a Puppet Carlo Collodi 1858
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"In the sea near here a Dog-Fish has appeared as big as a mountain."
Pinocchio The Tale of a Puppet Carlo Collodi 1858
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And they walked for some time and traversed the body and the stomach of the Dog-Fish.
Pinocchio The Tale of a Puppet Carlo Collodi 1858
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"Is this Dog-Fish very big?" asked Pinocchio, who was already beginning to quake with fear.
Pinocchio The Tale of a Puppet Carlo Collodi 1858
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