water-life

Pliny the elder devoted the ninth book of his _Natural History_ to fishes and water-life, and Plautus, Cicero, Catullus, Horace, Juvenal, Pliny the younger and Suetonius all allude to angling here and there.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 Various

The water-life of the Juaves is at once picturesque and curiously tame.

In Indian Mexico (1908) Frederick Starr 1895

Piero, whose rugged Neptunian features, sea-wrinkled, tell of a rough water-life, boasts a bass of resonant, almost pathetic quality.

New Italian sketches John Addington Symonds 1866

Piero, whose rugged Neptunian features, sea-wrinkled, tell of a rough water-life, boasts a bass of resonant, almost pathetic quality.

Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III John Addington Symonds 1866

Piero, whose rugged Neptunian features, sea-wrinkled, tell of a rough water-life, boasts a bass of resonant, almost pathetic quality.

Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series John Addington Symonds 1866

The girls are left to their fate, a Chinaman thinking it rather an advantage to lose a daughter or two occasionally … Many of these sampan people have never set foot on shore in their lives, and this water-life of China is one of the most extraordinary features of the country.

Chinalyst - China blogs in English Danwei 2010

The girls are left to their fate, a Chinaman thinking it rather an advantage to lose a daughter or two occasionally … Many of these sampan people have never set foot on shore in their lives, and this water-life of China is one of the most extraordinary features of the country.

Chinalyst - China blogs in English Danwei 2010

"My dream seemed a direct reversion back into the Beginnings, in form, consciousness, state of being, perception and instinct -- everything -- so that I actually lived, in infinitely dwindled consciousness, the terrible water-life.

Child and Country A Book of the Younger Generation Will Levington Comfort 1905