5 Metaphors for eel

The chief, after much persuasion, said that the clans of Mataiea had always believed they were descended directly from eels; that an eel of Lake Vaihiria had been the progenitor of all the people of the valley.

These young eels are about two inches in length, and they make their approach in one regular and undeviating column of about five inches in breadth, and as thick together as it is possible for them to be.

" Mr. Ellis, writing of these islands (Polynesian Researches, ii. 285), says: "Eels are great favourites, and are tamed and fed till they attain an enormous size.

As the eel and the water-snakes are the only serpentine animals in Tahiti, his reasoning was sound.

The bird was shot; and it was then discovered that the "eel" was really a string of candles!

5 Metaphors for  eel