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Sentences starting with fish

Fish swarm about the shores and in all the streams. [4]
Fish had "out-Sumnered" the Senator himself. [6]
Fish to Mr. Moran, of December 30, 1870. [6]
Fish says, "The determination of this government not to abandon its claims nor those of its citizens was stated parenthetically, and in such a subordinate way as not necessarily to attract the attention of Lord Clarendon. [6]
Fish in his criticism of the conversation with Lord Clarendon. [6]
Fish to the correspondents who talked with them may be taken for what they are worth. [6]
Fish always lose by being "got in and dressed. [4]
Fish advised delay because of Sumner's position in the Senate and attitude on the treaty question. [6]
Fish shows them apart from their connection, do very certainly seem in bad taste, if not actually indiscreet and unjustifiable. [6]

Sentences ending with fish

The cat plays with the captured mouse, and the cormorant with the captured fish. [1]
A puff of wind comes and ruffles the surface, so that he cannot see the fish. [4]
The house was very clean, and the tidy landlady gave us as good a dinner as she could of the inevitable green tea, toast, and salt fish. [4]
The hoop encircles the unsuspecting fish. [4]
Wears diamonds in the middle of the day, I suppose, and cold-blooded as--as a fish. [11]
Under these circumstances, Smith says in his "True Relation," "I was sent to the mouth of the river, to Kegquoughtan [now Hampton], an Indian Towne, to trade for corn, and try the river for fish. [4]
They are a powerful fish. [4]
This filament does not contain any muscles, and apparently cannot be of any direct use to the fish. [1]
I think Mr. Lyon has had a nibble from a fresh-water fish. [4]
Nor were the lesser dynasties of the Delta allowed, according to the Stela of Pianchi, to cross the threshold of the Pharaohs because they were unclean and ate fish. [10]

Short sentences using fish

Yes, a fish might. [9]
It's a noble fish. [5]
It's swarming with fish. [10]
Pelicans fish in concert. [1]
The fish had all disappeared. [4]
Who said anything about fish? [4]
Wednesday It isn't a fish. [5]
It must be a fish! [10]
Who's your fish? [5]
Fessikh----Salted fish. [11]

Sentences containing fish two or more times

No other part of the country originates so many excellent fish stories as the Sixteen Hundred and Ninety-two Islands, and King had heard so many of them that he suspected there must be fish in these waters. [4]
They fried the fish with the bacon, and were astonished; for no fish had ever seemed so delicious before. [5]
There were the fires, over which fresh fish were broiling on sticks; and, if you lingered, you saw the fish taken alive from tubs of water standing by, dressed and spitted and broiling before the wiggle was out of their tails. [4]

More example sentences with the word fish in them

And another year ye shall labour, and get the fruits of your labour, and not stand waiting, as it were, till a fish shall pass the spear, or a stag water at your door, that ye may slay and eat. [11]
I guessed I wouldn't stay in one place, but just tramp right across the country, mostly night times, and hunt and fish to keep alive, and so get so far away that the old man nor the widow couldn't ever find me any more. [5]
Sunday She doesn't work Sundays, but lies around all tired out, and likes to have the fish wallow over her; and she makes fool noises to amuse it, and pretends to chew its paws, and that makes it laugh. [5]
After the fish, which made a certain sensation, the count exchanged glances with the other committeemen. [2]
I said we were not very hungry a fish would do. [5]
But, whenever Pyrrhus went to market, letters reached the island delivered at the fish auction in the harbour by Anukis, Charmian's Nubian maid, to the old freedman, who had become her close friend. [10]
A small fish was in the frying-pan, crisp and brown and tempting, and one could see that Marget was not expecting such respectable food as this. [5]
Nobody expects chivalric virtues and the accompanying expenditure from this simple fellow; yet he practises them, and, when he once opens his hand, people stare at him as they do at flying fish and the hen that lays a golden egg. [10]
These monkeys behaved very differently when a dead fish, a mouse (12. [1]
Smith sent men up to their town, a display of force was made by firing four guns, and the Indians kindly traded, giving fish, oysters, bread, and deer. [4]
The count walked up and down the hall in his dressing gown, giving orders to the club steward and to the famous Feoktist, the Club's head cook, about asparagus, fresh cucumbers, strawberries, veal, and fish for this dinner. [2]
Without the fish, turtle, and birds sent us, I do not know how we should have got along. [5]
His delicate stomach turns, at certain details of the white man's food; but he likes over-ripe fish, and brazed dog, and cat, and rat, and will eat his own uncle with relish. [5]
It pierced the tumult of waters, found the ambushed rocks, and guided the lithe brown arms and hands, so that the swift paddle drove the canoe straight onward, as a fish drives itself through a flume of dragon's teeth beneath the flood. [11]
The uncultivated, unsophisticated trout in unfrequented waters prefers the bait; and the rural people, whose sole object in going a-fishing appears to be to catch fish, indulge them in their primitive taste for the worm. [4]
Fish, they seemed to say, are not so easily caught as men. [4]
But I helped to fish them out of the river, down below the bridge, and then described it to them as well as I could. [5]
The English want to fish in our waters, I believe. [4]
The only thing to chronicle to-day is the quantities of fish about; nine bonitos were caught this forenoon, and some large albacores seen. [5]
It was the time when the fruits were coming in, when vegetables were in full yield, when fish from the Beau Cheval were to be had in plenty--from mud-cats and suckers, pike and perch, to rock-bass, sturgeon and even maskinonge. [11]
I have often thought of going fishing for it some year when I wanted a vacation, as some of my friends used to go to Ireland to fish for salmon. [6]
One day I thought I would stop and see a fish caught. [5]
It is necessary, therefore, to snare the fish if you want him. [4]
Bucklaw was not there: he had other fish to fry, and the ship's lights were gone. [11]
If I lived there, I would as lief be a fish as a horse. [4]
Calling one of them to us, we found that his business was fishing, and that he forked out very fat and edible-looking fish with his trident. [4]
These Indians kept them company for some time, meeting them here and there with presents of strawberries, mulberries, bread, and fish, for which they received pins, needles, and beads. [4]
I never heard the young fellow apply the name of the odious pretended fish to the little man from that day forward. [6]
At such times the water comes out of the places in her face that she looks out of, and she pats the fish on the back and makes soft sounds with her mouth to soothe it, and betrays sorrow and solicitude in a hundred ways. [5]
The shark is the swiftest fish that swims. [5]
The sidewalks and the streets swarmed with noisy dealers in every sort of second-hand merchandise--vegetables that had seen a better day, fish in shoals. [4]
The president of the society, Mr. Hamilton Fish, introduced the speaker as one "whose name belongs to no single country, and to no single age. [6]
I maintain, on the other hand, that there are a number of live fish still swimming in it, and that every one of us has a right to see if he cannot catch some of them. [6]
Every guest at the 'Olympian table' was allowed here to select the meat, fruit, asparagus, fish, or pasty which he desired to have cooked for him. [10]
We stood over the lake just a convenient distance above the water, and catched a lot of the nicest fish you ever see. [5]
It began because the Kynopolitans eat the fish, and in revenge the Oxyrynchites caught and killed dogs, and consumed them in sacrifices. [10]
I was at the Government prison, (with Captain Fish and another whaleship-skipper, Captain Phillips,) and got so interested in its examination that I did not notice how quickly the time was passing. [5]
Sometimes she carries the fish in her arms half the night when it complains and wants to get to the water. [5]
Next she prepared the fish and the pan, and while her hands were moving busily she earnestly entreated the old woman to gratify her wish and look into the future for her. [10]
He had moreover, the expression of a fisherman who has lost a fish after he supposed it was securely hooked. [4]
In a moment the evil-minded fish, lashing the water in his rage, was coming back again, making straight for the boat as before. [4]
What fly will the English fish rise to? [11]
At last, when the dance was all over, the guilds with the town-pipers betook them to the head constable's quarters, where they were served with drink and ate the Shrove-Tuesday meal of fish which was given in their honor. [10]
The Head of the Apollinean Institute delivered himself of these judicious sentiments in that peculiar acid, penetrating tone, thickened with a nasal twang, which not rarely becomes hereditary after three or four generations raised upon east winds, salt fish, and large, white-bellied, pickled cucumbers. [6]
And the fish that were to be had there were not miserable carp, but heavy gold and silver vessels, and coins and magnificent ornaments. [10]
Why, it was that very supernumerary fish, which we held of so little account, but which had wedged itself into the rent of the yawning planks, and served to keep out the water until the leak was finally stopped. [6]
There's a saying that he that would cross a river twice in the same day in a boat, will do well to eat fish for luck, lest he have an accident. [5]
It is likely that a fish has not been caught on that lake pier for forty years; but no matter, the patient fisher watches his cork there all the day long, just the same, and seems to enjoy it. [5]
To fish, to swim, to snooze on the rocks, that is all, for ever and ever. [4]
The meadows were sweet with the newly cut grass, the wind softly blew down the river, large white clouds sailed high overhead and cast shadows on the changing water; but to all these gentle influences the fish were insensible, and sulked in their cool retreats. [4]
But in the summer the sucker is a flabby fish, and John was not thanked for bringing him home. [4]
They peddle out such a fish as that by the pound in the market-house there; everybody buys some of him; his meat's as white as snow and makes a good fry. [5]
There was some sport in this, but Dulness is not commonly a game fish, and only sulks after he is struck. [6]
The fish were so wanting in taste as to disdain the sweet bait, but my early awakened love of sport kept me patiently a long time in the same spot, which was undoubtedly more agreeable to my mother than the bait was to the salmon. [10]
They had five small fish between them which they wanted Miss Thorn to cook. [9]
True, he had shown her much affection without words, but he was certainly as mute as a fish, and would, doubtless, have boasted and asked for thanks like anybody else, if indolence had not fettered his stiff tongue. [10]
It was because she noticed that another fish had appeared in the pan. [5]
With newly-animated self-reliance, she examined flour, pulse and dried fish, making it a point of honor to bargain carefully; Barbara should see that she knew how to buy. [10]
Then later, when she charged Cauchon with trying to kill her with a poisoned fish, her notion that she was to be "delivered" by death in the prison--if she had it, and I believe she had--would naturally be greatly strengthened, you see. [5]
I have never seen her do like this with any other fish, and it troubles me greatly. [5]
I have not seen a fish before that could laugh. [5]
He might never see them again, for how could he ever accomplish anything that was good and great, and yet the fish had demanded it of him! [10]
Had he, then, saved the lad from the rapids and Silver Tassel's brutality only to have him drag fish out of the jaws of death for Silver Tassel's meal? [11]
After he had satisfied his hunger, he thanked the shepherd, and offered him one of the groschen which the fish had given him, but the old man refused it. [10]
It used to roam the earth in the Old Silurian times, and lay eggs and catch fish and climb trees and live on fossils; for it was of a mixed breed, which was the fashion then. [5]
In reply to repeated inquiries from the two old men in regard to her arrival there, she answered: "Nobody will believe it, because in this hurry I could not keep my mouth shut; but I acted like a mute fish and reached the water. [10]
Murray Bradshaw was ready to land his fish now, but he was not quite sure that she was yet hooked, and he had a feeling that by this time she knew every fly in his book. [6]
Fish, at any rate, on the 30th of July, and alleged "inadvertence" as the reason for his omission to do it before. [6]
These at any rate were uncivilized -trout, and it was only when we took the advice of the young McGregor and baited our hooks with the angleworm, that the fish joined in our day's sport. [4]
He represented how quickly the harbour could be reached from his island, that fish were brought thence from it daily, and he would therefore always have news of what was passing. [10]
Plutarch relates a quarrel between the inhabitants of this city, and the neighboring one of Oxyrynchos, where the fish called Oxyrynchos was worshipped. [10]
Snatch the curious prize, Give it a place among thy treasured spoils Fossil and relic,--corals, encrinites, The fly in amber and the fish in stone, The twisted circlet of Etruscan gold, Medal, intaglio, poniard, poison-ring, --Place for the Memphian beetle with thine hoard! [6]
The instructions were prepared very carefully, and after Governor Fish and I had gone over them for the last time I wrote an addendum charging him that above all things he should handle the subject of the Alabama claims with the greatest delicacy. [6]
It is the practice of the country folk, whose only object is to get fish, to use a good deal of bait, sink the hook to the bottom of the pools, and wait the slow appetite of the summer trout. [4]
He spoke with pompous exaggeration, in a shrill, harsh voice, wiping his face meanwhile with his white linen robe or gasping for air, when breath failed him, like a fish stranded on the beach. [10]
I've lived among people of culture, and I've found out that culture chiefly consists of fixed ideas, and obstruction to progress, of hating the President,--of knowing the right people and eating fish with a fork. [9]
Even the dipping paddles made no noise, though sometimes there was a gurgle, as though a fish had broken the water behind them; sometimes, in the shining pools ahead, she saw the trout leap out. [9]
Here, Caleb, fish out the brandy-wine," he added to his younger brother, who went to a cupboard and brought the bottle. [11]
Then I set out a line to catch some fish for breakfast. [5]
Malformed salmon and other fish can be supplied in quantity, if anybody happens to want them. [6]
Jacques had not ordered a dinner at the hotel, but had got in fresh fish, lobsters, chickens, eggs, and other necessaries; and all was ready for a meal which could be got in an hour. [11]
There was poison or something in the frozen fish I'd given them. [11]
A fish more or less in the ocean does not seem to amount to much. [6]
True, it was only in a dungeon, on a pair of stools, by the light of a torch, but how I relished it!--a bottle of good wine, a piece of broiled fish, the half of a fowl, and some tender vegetables. [11]
The clouds drifted on; the fish leaped; the butcher-bird called from the shore; the sun was purpling Lafayette. [4]
The weathervane perched on the gable, and veering in the wet breeze, seemed like a live fish swimming in its own element; and through the open window she saw Insall bending over a lathe, from which the chips were flying. [9]
We had dinner on a ground-veranda over the water--the chief dish the renowned fish called the pompano, delicious as the less criminal forms of sin. [5]
One may feast on a fish and a handful of olives. [4]
Smith exhorted his officers to proceed on their voyage for fish, either to New England or Newfoundland. [4]
Only a few of them still move, rise, and feebly fly to settle on the enemy's hand, lacking the spirit to die stinging him; the rest are dead and fall as lightly as fish scales. [2]
Passing the mouth of the Rappahannock, by some called the Tappahannock, where in shoal water were many fish lurking in the weeds, Smith had his first experience of the Stingray. [4]
In the heat of the day, when the fish will not bite, comes the siesta. [4]
The smoked meats of Mendes and the neighborhood of Lake Moeris hung on metal pegs, and in a covered but well-aired room, sheltered from the sun lay freshly-imported fish from the Mediterranean and Red Sea. [10]
But he's kind of good--he give me half a fish, once, when there warn't enough for two; and lots of times he's kind of stood by me when I was out of luck. [5]
There were plenty of fish visible in the water, but we have no outside aids in this pilgrimage but "Tent Life in the Holy Land," "The Land and the Book," and other literature of like description--no fishing-tackle. [5]
As for the odours, from that of the roasted coffee and food of the taverns, to the stale fish on the stalls, and worse, I can say nothing. [9]
Fish, but so objectionable in its tone and expressions that it has been generally doubted whether the paper could claim anything more of the secretary's hand than his signature. [6]
And then--you do not forget it either--when he raised his deep voice to shout the first greeting, why, it seemed as if the very fish in the water must join in, and the palm-trees on the shore wave their feathery tops in joyous sympathy. [10]
Besides, Barine cares no more for you than the last fish you caught. [10]
Memory is a net; one finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook; but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking. [6]

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