fish-torpedo

Finally they would touch the living rag at the bottom, -- the gelatinous flesh of the fish-torpedo, -- receiving a series of electric shocks which quickly made them loosen their prey, laughing and raising the other hand to their jerking arms.

Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel Vicente Blasco Ib����ez 1897

"No," said Poole, as he lay back gazing at the gunboat through his half-closed eyes, and in imagination saw the little thread-like appearance formed by the disturbed water as a fish-torpedo ploughed its way along; "we didn't bring anything of the kind."

Fitz the Filibuster George Manville Fenn 1870

Instead of making futile efforts to break his bonds like them, he lowered his hairy head, and, with a howl and a tremendous rush, like a fish-torpedo, launched himself, or, as it were, took "a header," into the fiery man!

Blue Lights Hot Work in the Soudan 1859

The celebrated Whitehead fish-torpedo, beautiful and cleverly contrived though it be, can only advance straight to its object at a certain depth below the surface; but mine, as you see, by this arrangement of the main pneumatic engine, which connects the watch-work regulator with an eccentric wheel or fin outside, causes the torpedo to describe a curve of any size, and in any direction, during its progress.

In the Track of the Troops 1859

Soon the savages gained the reef, carried their canoe swiftly over, and launched on the open sea, cutting through the great rollers like a rocket or a fish-torpedo.

The Island Queen 1859

Robin, who had seen him tip over, being a good swimmer, and prompt to act, went through the same hole like a fish-torpedo, and caught the brown boy by the hair, as he rose to the surface with staring eyes, outspread fingers, and a bursting cry.

The Battery and the Boiler Adventures in Laying of Submarine Electric Cables 1859

Whitehead's fish-torpedo, the Harvey torpedo, and others. "

In the Track of the Troops 1859