sword-fish

There were no threshers there to thresh their poor old backs, or sword-fish to stab their stomachs, or saw-fish to rip them up, or ice-sharks to bite lumps out of their sides, or whalers to harpoon and lance them.

The Water Babies 2007

And two venomous-looking craft they were, as they shot through the short chopping sea upon some forty oars apiece, stretching their long sword-fish snouts over the water, as if snuffing for their prey.

Westward Ho! 2007

There was a worm of guilt twisting in her belly as she thought about her boyfriend, probably waiting up for her with two fillets of sword-fish, white and inoffensive, in the fridge.

Little Earthquakes Jennifer Weiner 2004

In 1876, South Seas missionary William Wyatt Gill wrote that native fishermen were stabbed in the wrist, hip, knee, and foot when their boats were run through: “It not unfrequently happens that, in chasing flying fish at night, the course of the sword-fish is arrested by the stout outrigger of a canoe.”

A Furnace Afloat JOE JACKSON 2003

The tunny and the sword-fish are infested with a parasite about the rising of the Dog-star; that is to say, about this time both these fishes have a grub beside their fins that is nicknamed the

The History of Animals 2002

It does not seem to be used like the blade of the sword-fish and bill-fish; though some sailors tell me that the Narwhale employs it for a rake in turning over the bottom of the sea for food.

Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

The bonito has the gall-bladder stretched alongside the gut and equalling it in length, and often a double fold of it. others have the organ in the region of the gut; in some cases far off, in others near; as the fishing-frog, the elops, the synagris, the muraena, and the sword-fish.

The History of Animals 2002

They supposed a sword-fish had stabbed her, gentlemen.

Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

So acute is the pain it inflicts that the sword-fish will often leap as high out of the water as a dolphin; in fact, it sometimes leaps over the bulwarks of a vessel and falls back on the deck.

The History of Animals 2002

The dog-fish have all their gills double, five on a side; and the sword-fish has eight double gills.

The History of Animals 2002