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Go to page Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman
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Go to page Three Men In A Boat (To Say Nothing Of The Dog) by Jerome, Jerome K.
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Go to page Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book For All And None by Nietzsche, Friedrich --A sea full of many-hued fishes and crabs, for which even the Gods might long, and might be tempted to become fishers in it, and casters of nets,-- so rich is the world in wonderful things, great and small!
Go to page The Strength of the Strong by London, Jack Also, others that had taken land gave it to the few that held on, being paid in return with corn and fat roots, and bear-skins, and fishes which the farmers got from the fishermen in exchange for corn.
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Go to page Captains Courageous by Kipling, Rudyard
Go to page The Man Who Knew Too Much by Chesterton, Gilbert K.
Go to page Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz by Baum, L. Frank "I have an idea," said the Wizard, "that there are fishes in these brooks.
Go to page The Original Peter Rabbit Books by Potter, Beatrix AND a shoal of other little fishes put their heads out, and laughed at Mr.
Go to page The Pioneers by Cooper, James Fenimore ” Fishes of various sorts were now to be seen, entangled in the meshes of the net, as it was passed through the hands of the laborers; and the water, at a little distance from the shore, was alive with the movements of the alarmed victims.
Go to page Moby Dick I-LXVII by Melville, Herman To those who have not chanced specially to study the subject, it may possibly seem strange, that fishes not commonly exceeding four or five feet should be marshalled among WHALES --a word, which, in the popular sense, always conveys an idea of hugeness.
Go to page The Arabian Nights by Lang, Andrew
Go to page The Patchwork Girl of Oz by Baum, L. Frank Ojo, who was on the front of the raft, looked over into the water and thought he saw some large fishes swimming about.
Go to page Walden & on the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Thoreau, Henry David These experiences were very memorable and valuable to me -- anchored in forty feet of water, and twenty or thirty rods from the shore, surrounded sometimes by thousands of small perch and shiners, dimpling the surface with their tails in the moonlight, and communicating by a long flaxen line with mysterious nocturnal fishes which had their dwelling forty feet below, or sometimes dragging sixty feet of line about the pond as I drifted in the gentle night breeze, now and then feeling a slight vibration along it, indicative of some life prowling about its extremity, of dull uncertain blundering purpose there, and slow to make up its mind.
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Go to page The Story of Doctor Dolittle by Lofting, Hugh
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Go to page The Origin of Species by Darwin, Charles In the second place, salt-water fish can with care be slowly accustomed to live in fresh water; and, according to Valenciennes, there is hardly a single group of fishes confined exclusively to fresh water, so that we may imagine that a marine member of a fresh-water group might travel far along the shores of the sea, and subsequently become modified and adapted to the fresh waters of a distant land.
Go to page The Quest of the Golden Girl by le Gallienne, Richard Was it one of those wonderful talking fishes out of the Arabian Nights, or are you merely an angler yourself, and did you begrudge such a record catch to a girl?
Go to page Tales of the Fish Patrol by London, Jack This in itself would not be bad, were it not for the small mesh of the nets, so small that the tiniest fishes, little new-hatched things not a quarter of an inch long, cannot pass through.
Go to page Tom Brown's Schooldays by Hughes, Thomas The keeper quietly proceeded to take out his pipe, fill, and light it, keeping an eye on Tom, who now sat disconsolately across the branch, looking at keeper--a pitiful sight for men and fishes.
Go to page The Valley of the Moon by London, Jack
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Go to page The Count of Monte Cristo by Dumas, Alexandre