Word: fishes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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WHAT IS A KISS?Scientifically considered, a hearty kiss resembles in principle nothing so much as the action by which the lump-sucker fish attaches itself to a stone, or that of the leather "suckers" with which urchins delight to lift pebbles. The lips of the kisser are pressed against those of the kissee, a slight exhaustion of air is caused by a "drawing" action on the part of the agent active, and the two actors in the farce are temporarily attached to each other by the pressure of the external air. The kisser ceases to exhaust the air within...
There he was, ready for her appearance; with a fair lunch of fruit and fish such as only he himself could have procured under the circumstances. His smile, on seeing Tue, was singularly winning...
Boxer was a sly fellow. He had always managed to get ahead of me thus far. I was bound to pay him up sometime for the many jokes he had had at my expense. One day I heard him say he was going cod-fishing next morning at three o'clock, off Mackerel Point. Now was my chance. I'd set out at two, get on the ground first, and catch all the fish before he was up. Then how I would grin at him when he came along an hour afterward! With what coolness I would hold...
...dreamed that I was fishing quietly, when suddenly I heard a commotion behind me in the boat. I turned around, and there, to my amazement, beheld a twenty-pound cod, that I had just caught, erect upon its tail, glaring at me with intense rage and indignation. Abashed and disconcerted by the menacing and determined expression of the fish, I was still more startled to observe that its body was growing longer and larger, till it was towering above me. The features, too, were changing : the look of fury gradually subsided into one of melancholy; the tail kept...
...know - that the Somerville Society of Naturals will welcome to its midst one of Harvard's bright particular stars. Good Heavens! what do I know? - or rather, what don't I know? At a Greek reading, I can tell you the style of worm they used for fishing in the Pliocene Age, and how many fish they caught on an average with each worm. I can tell you more. I can tell you why worms crawl, why the Nine muffs, why Juniors jodel. At a lecture on the Vedas, I could have told you from actual observation the length...