silver-fish

Fishermen cut open their gray bellies to show pink-muscled chambers of jellyfish, silver-fish, condom wrappers, metal cans of oxygen.

The Gin Closet Leslie Jamison 2010

No fairy ever swam round the moonlit lily-pond and caught the tame silver-fish, until she had accomplished this feat.

The Golden Apple Tree 1920

It's all dark and old and dried up and full of old-fashioned things -- musty old idees -- fitter for a silver-fish than a modern man ....

Tono Bungay 1906

Some of them were gold-fish and some silver-fish, but others had opal tints that were very pretty.

Policeman Bluejay 1887

We have seen gold-fish and silver-fish, but golden eels are first discovered by this defendant The apostle, in Holy

Eli First published in the "Century Magazine" Heman White Chaplin 1885

One of the most interesting of these divergent types is the common Californian and Mexican silver-fish, an inhabitant of the bays and inlets of sub-tropical America.

Science in Arcady Grant Allen 1873

As silver-fish in vases, so, in his azure eyes swam tears unshed.

Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II (of 2) Herman Melville 1855

We had just discovered that silver-fish (a species of _hyodori_) were plentiful in the stream, and this kept our attention fixed.

The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse Mayne Reid 1850

There were cod, breams, silver-fish, and other kinds whose names they did not know, or which I have forgotten.

Two Years Before the Mast Richard Henry Dana 1848

There were cod, bream, silver-fish, and other kinds, whose names they did not know, or which I have forgotten.

Two Years Before the Mast Richard Henry Dana 1848