20 collocations for « fishes »

He says they brung us fish an’ treasure, an’ shud hev what they hankered after…”‘Nothin’ was to be diff’runt on the aoutsid; only we was to keep shy o’ strangers ef we knowed what was good fer us.

“Which means,” the Canadian went on, “since I’ve never fished these waterways, I don’t know the whales that frequent them?”

We know that the crew of the Royal Navy’s Bulldog fished up a starfish from 2,620 fathoms, hence from a depth of more than one vertical league.

Unfortunately I couldn’t fish up this wonderful specimen, and surely no other Mediterranean zoophytes would have been offered to my gaze, if, on the evening of the 16th, the Nautilus hadn’t slowed down in an odd fashion.

“You’ve never fished these seas, Ned?”

Then she took the tongs and fished out the packet.

"Thank you, I prefer spiders," she replied, fishing up two unwary little ones who had gone to a creamy death.

He felt inside Riley’s coat pocket and fished out the necklace.

He fished out a Marlboro, and lit up. “

You fish out all manner of odds and ends of knowledge—revolutions, schisms, massacres, systems of government; but Huss—where is he?

Under the neat train shed to which he crawled when Eugene appeared and where they stood, he fished from a pocket of his old gray coat a soiled and crumpled letter which he carefully unfolded with his thick and clumsy fingers.

He at once fished out his instrument, and commenced to play “Two Lovely Black Eyes.”

We fished up the harpoon, and the skiff started off in pursuit of the animal.

The subsistence which they find there is so scanty, that they are eager to fish up the nastiest garbage thrown overboard from any European ship.

I fished out fourpence, and put his cross on my own neck, and I could see by his face that he was as pleased as he could be at the thought that he had succeeded in cheating a foolish gentleman, and away he went to drink the value of his cross.

Fiscal year: 1 April - 31 March Inflation rate (consumer prices): NA% Agriculture - products: coconuts, copra, breadfruit, papayas, bananas; pigs, poultry, goats; fish Industries: small-scale enterprises for copra production, woodworking, plaited craft goods; stamps, coins; fishing Electricity - production: NA kWh Electricity - consumption: NA kWh Electricity - production by source: fossil fuel: 100% hydro: 0% nuclear: 0% other: 0% (2001) Exports: $0 (2002) Exports - commodities: stamps, copra, handicrafts Exports - partners: New Zealand (2006) Imports: $969,200 c.i.f. (

I fished out a couple of eggs that had got cracked, and put those in.

As a matter of fact, I had plenty to do in fishing my command out of the river.

When she'd got pretty well along down towards me, I put out my pipe and went to where I fished out the bread, and laid down behind a log on the bank in a little open place.

He went every day to fish betimes in the morning; and imposed it as a law upon himself, not to cast his nets above four times a-day.