cuttle-fish

By some naturalists who have vaguely heard rumors of the mysterious creature, here spoken of, it is included among the class of cuttle-fish, to which, indeed, in certain external respects it would seem to belong, but only as the Anak of the tribe.

Squidpunk…It Might Just Be Go-Time?… 2010

Best to Corcyra go for cuttle-fish, for the acarne and the fat sea-skull the purple-fish, the little murex too, mice of the sea and the sea-urchin sweet.

The Defense Apuleius 2008

Best to Corcyra go for cuttle-fish, for the acarne and the fat sea-skull the purple-fish, the little murex too, mice of the sea and the sea-urchin sweet.

The Defense Apuleius 2008

“Works and Days” l. 524, the “Boneless One” is the cuttle-fish.

Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica 2007

But Apuleius was chiefly accused of having employed shell-fish, lobster patties, she-hedgehogs, spiced oysters, and cuttle-fish, which was celebrated for its productiveness.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

Seventh of July: Sergeant used knife to kill a cuttle-fish.

The War with the Newts 2006

We have abundance of the saepia, or cuttle-fish, of which the people in this country make a delicate ragout; as also of the polype de mer, which is an ugly animal, with long feelers, like tails, which they often wind about the legs of the fishermen.

Travels through France and Italy 2004

For being gray-spotted, and clear to see through, and something like a cuttle-fish, only more substantial, he will stay quite still where a streak of weed is in the rapid water, hoping to be overlooked, not caring even to wag his tail.

Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

This is the bone of the cuttle-fish (“Krooghar”), which, when thrown concave surface down against the wind and after the style of the boomerang, whirls rapidly and makes a decided effort to return.

My Tropic Isle 2003

Fuego eating a cuttle-fish; and at Low's Harbour, another was killed in the act of carrying to its hole a large volute shell.

Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003