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And at that, I turned to the men, asking how it was that I could hear no sounds of the creatures attacking us, and so they took me up into the look-out place, and from there I stared down at the weed; but it was without movement, save for the stirring of the wind, and there was nowhere any sign of the devil-fish.
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With these, it was possible to attack the devil-fish without coming within reach of its tentacles.
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It seemed to be no more than a hundred fathoms distant, and, against the moon, I saw the outline of it most clearly — a mighty devil-fish.
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The other dishes were several kinds of raw fish, dried devil-fish, boiled kalo, sweet potatoes, bananas, and cocoa-nut milk.
The Hawaiian Archipelago Isabella Lucy 2004
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It could not be concealed for long, however, that there was no devil-fish smashing insanely into boats and rafts and that the nuisance was in fact anything but minor.
Bloodhype Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1973
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"Surely now, the weaponry we stock, even though designed for dealing with devil-fish and subsand crawlers and the like, is sufficient to handle your ` monster."'
Bloodhype Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1973
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It could not be concealed for long, however, that there was no devil-fish smashing insanely into boats and rafts and that the nuisance was in fact anything but minor.
Bloodhype Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1973
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He was a perfect devil-fish for sucking the goodness from every business he was concerned in -- banking, railroading, and so on.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 26, September, 1880 Various
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Cubs catch every kind of funny little sea-creature -- star-fishes, jelly-fishes, baby sea-anemones, tiny, tiny crabs, a devil-fish, baby dabs, and everything else you can think of.
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They looked like huge devil-fish, and he wondered how they could stand the clumsy dress.
The Adventures of Piang the Moro Jungle Boy A Book for Young and Old Florence Partello Stuart
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