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"Flying fish" Quotes from Famous Books

... all his time in the men's clubhouse, and under no pretext whatever may he visit his own house or so much as look upon the faces of his wife and womenkind. Were he but to steal a glance at them, they think that flying fish must inevitably bore out his eyes at night. If his wife, mother, or daughter brings any gift for him or wishes to talk with him, she must stand down towards the shore with her back turned to the men's clubhouse. Then the fisherman may go out and speak to her, or ...

— The Golden Bough - A study of magic and religion • Sir James George Frazer

... flying fish-slim, shapely, graceful, and intensely white. With the sun on them they look like a flight of silver fruit-knives. They are able to ...

— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain

... me with the news that our provisions were beginning to give out. As it was, he said, before we returned to Nassau, we should have to put in at Flying Fish Cove—a small settlement on the larger island some five miles to the nor'ard,—for ...

— Pieces of Eight • Richard le Gallienne

Words linked to "Flying fish" : two-wing flying fish, teleost, teleost fish, Exocoetidae, biplane flying fish, monoplane flying fish, four-wing flying fish, family Exocoetidae, teleostan