"Poor fish" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... freeze with angling reeds, And cut their legs with shells and weeds, Or treacherously poor fish beset With strangling snare, or ...
— Highways and Byways in Surrey • Eric Parker
... introductory speech, a great crowd gathered about; for as he dropped his h's, like all Cockneys, it was very amusing to hear him talk. In those days the big fish had the first choice, and the small fry, or poor fish, had to wait around some time before they got a chance to lose their money. I noticed an old man hanging around, and so I sized him up as a pretty solid fellow, and giving my partner the wink, I called up all hands to the bar, and they all came willingly enough ...
— Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi • George H. Devol
... into its stomach. All the time she kept saying, "Majnun, Majnun." At this the Rohu fish was greatly alarmed and swam down the river as fast as he could. By degrees he got tired and went slower, and a crow came and perched on his back, and said "Caw, caw." "Oh, Mr. Crow," said the poor fish "do see what is in my stomach ...
— Indian Fairy Tales • Collected by Joseph Jacobs |
