He wanted him out of fishing, away from the sea. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

We did not have a strike though we saw some circles on the water from rising fish. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Hey, little fish. Stick around for the big fish, why don’t you?” The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

‘It is a less perilous hunger. Or maybe not: fish from the pool of Henneth Annûn may cost him all he has to give.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

At night, by some chemical process unknown to me but obviously inhibited by sunlight, the predatory algae turned highly acidic and the ponds became vats of acid that digested the fish. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

His horse and his armor were grey, but his cloak was the rippling blue-and-red of Riverrun, and a shiny black fish, wrought in gold and obsidian, pinned its folds against his shoulder. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Somehow the idea was brought up by Mom that perhaps the whole family would enjoy a fishing trip. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

What if he knew his own mother ran illegal fish traps? A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

When he pulled around to the window to pay, I fished my money from my pocket. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Salmon are slippery fish, and Loki was the slipperiest of salmon; he wriggled and tried to slip through Thor’s fingers, but Thor simply gripped the fish harder and squeezed it tightly, down by the tail. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

This gradually changed the atmosphere to the composition that it has today, and allowed the development of higher forms of life such as fish, reptiles, mammals, and ultimately the human race. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I take the rucksack off and fish thru it for a flashlight. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Big fish shining like a lighthouse, showing you the way. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

His double fish tails swished back and forth. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

He caught fish in the river and cooked it on an open fire. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He agreed to ferry Booth and Herold across the river as soon as he set his fishing nets. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

If there’s a fish, we’ll do our best to net it, step on it to hold it down, whack it over the head, stick a knife in back of its eyes. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I-I have to check the fishing lines,” she said, squeezing past him. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

All things in the woods, from insects to fish to bears, were always, always looking for food—it was the great, single driving influence in nature, lo eat. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a moment the fish seemed shocked and was still, like a flickering flame on a match. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Once when the Store was full of lunchtime customers, he dipped the strainer, which we also used to sift weevils from meal and flour, into the barrel and fished for two fat pickles. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I place the note on my comforter, then kneel down, reach an arm under my bed, and fish around until I find what I’m looking for. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

It was a small fishing boat manned by two young men. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

It was early morning on a cloudy day, and we were in the midst of a storm of flying fish. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

There were some days—too few unfortunately—when I could have all the fish I cared to gaff. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The three of them stopped at the wide aisle of frozen foods and started taking inventory: black bean soup, lunch rolls, pizzas, bagels, pizza bagels, tripe, codfish, catfish, I-can’t-believe-it’s-not-fish fish. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He pulled the blanket over Bo's exposed feet and fished his flashlight from underneath the pillows. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

When the fish are frozen out, they’ll eat other things, including crustaceans, mice, voles and small birds. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

The young otter grew fast and soon were taking fish from my hand, but Won-a-nee liked abalones better. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were beautiful creatures, with multicolored fish tails, and the heads and forelegs of white stallions. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“You send a girl get me at Banga you be need help. I go show you cook eel. They got a big eel downa river yesterday. That fish a good be for children.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The PSFs were closer now; they had to be, because when they started firing again, it was like shooting fish in a barrel. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I was fishing off the edge of the dock outside our cabin the day we were going to head back home. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

She hated fish with bones, and there was no way she was eating jalapeño and green onion hushpuppies. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“The fish lost the fight. My cousin wrapped it up so tight it couldn’t budge.” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

Here, the current was slow and the water clogged with trash of all sorts: fruit rinds, broken boxes, torn fishing nets, empty rice sacks, nine-year-old prison escapees. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

I would need to five from day to day on what I could catch, trying to get enough on the days when I could fish to last through the times when I could not. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

My phone buzzed and I fished it out of my pocket. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Looking for the streaks in the water, trying to figure where a fish will come up, hoping it will be close enough to hit. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Yummy canned peas. Lovely boiled squash and cream crackers with—are you ready?—-fish paste a la margarine. The best kind, with the little bones inside.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

The angler fish’s body had fully emerged when ice formed beneath them. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Sometimes they took the shapes of humans, and sometimes of snakes or fish or, if they were bent on evil, crocodiles. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s a type of whale—the biggest fish in the sea,” Captain Smith says. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

From the odor that came through the window he could guess that Wat Hokester had been taken again for selling putrid fish in the market stall. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

Norman Bowker bent forward and scooped up some ice against his chest, pressing it there for a moment, then he fished out a beer and snapped it open. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every time his fishing sign got wet, I made him a new one. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Some are deliberately applied to bodies of water to destroy plants, insect larvae, or undesired fishes. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The fish, the pale silver color of the moon, circled in the bowl. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

That was Grandpa Bobby’s fishing boat, which he’d named after his wife, my grandmother. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Some had scales like fish, and they slipped beneath still pools. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, fish feces,” she answered, not lifting her eyes from the book she was studying in the diminishing light. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fish in all the nearby lakes and rivers will be safe today, because it seems like every fisherman in the state of Maryland is here at the funeral. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

I never did like to fish by myself. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

We started out for the pond, with him wearing my father’s coat and carrying David’s fishing pole. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

We never thought to stuff the fish, we just ate them. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He asks questions about atoms and clouds, about fish and mammals, about famous religions and dead presidents. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

He sat down beside Heqet, eying the chunk of golden cheese, the two loaves, the salt fish and the figs spread out on his friend’s lap. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

A fat fish wriggled on the end of her spear. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

In another picture, I give myself a fish tail like a mermaid. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

"Yeah. I'm going to fish the dam here." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Instead, he found two seagulls near his head, pecking fish chunks from the vomit he had thrown up in the grass. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Out from it he fished and gathered wild tubers and greens. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

She expertly repaired a section of the line that had been nibbled by fish. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Gus took me fishing and I even won a few Bible bucks in Sunday school. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

The sun, behind his head, gave him a halo, but he smelled awful, like old fish and old man, both of which needed a bath. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Fruit, knives on the edges of tables, fish, bread, lobsters, flowers, and, of course, sneakers. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Another fish wiggled to the top of the water to gulp down a water bug. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But there was something familiar about that orange dragon, perhaps the way her scales reflected in the sun like fish scales glistening in the water, and those knowledgeable eyes, nodding as if she knew her. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

He folded up the snapshot and went back to fishing. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Place was right smart of fish if I ’member correctly.” Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

The twin on the ground grabbed the fish from my basket and threw it. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

I could feel Call stiffen like a dead fish. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

On fair days they could fish among the pools or lie on the rocks. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I made a smiling fish, sitting in a canoe. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The use of chlordane for grasshopper control on the high western plains has been followed by the death of many stream fish. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Tyson bounded across the room and gave Poseidon a big hug, which almost knocked off his fishing hat. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

So if it wasn't TV dinners it had to be fish and chips. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

The old man’s coat was hanging there, and Hugo fished in his pockets. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

“He’s so fresh off the boat, I’ll bet he still smells like fish.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

He started to double over—his eyes fastened on me—gaping like a fish out of water. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

She boiled mealie meal and sprinkled it with dried fish. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time Henry plunges the net into the water to scoop up the fish, my arms are so tired, I can hardly lift them. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

“Where did you learn to clean fish like that?” A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

It had been three days since Meera caught a fish, however. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Then, two women carrying a single fish, for they were all of about the same size and heavy, we lifted them up the cliff and brought them home. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was these bushes that Old Flap spent all his time in whilst I fished. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Billie spends much of her time fishing in a nearby tank in the afternoons—a lonely existence. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Trapped indoors, I was as nervous as a fish out of water. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom always said you were part fish, right? The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Each year it had made a census of the fish living in this stream. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

I told him everything in one long sentence, and then said, “And so, can I cook my fish here, because I haven’t eaten in years.” My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

I rearranged the rags and fishing nets he was covered with. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

It was conveniently close to the governing hub of the Common- wealth, while being a comfortable distance from the smell of rotten fish, hot tar, and the vomit of drunken sailors. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

"Well, I told her she could bloody well find herself a new Knight of the Gate. Black fish or no, I am still a TUlly. I shall leave for Riverrun by evenfall." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“We’re supposed to go fishing tomorrow and she decided to catch her own bait.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

The response was obviously satisfactory, for Emily took a bite out of her tuna fish sandwich. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

Eventually, the angler fish was fully back in the water. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

There was a supple geometry to his arc, a fish bending through a current. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He scrunched around under himself and fished them out. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ivan managed to grab some rye bread and fried fish for her, and some pirozhki for himself. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Inside, fish tanks go from floor to ceiling. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Sammy and James took the few bony fish they had caught and baited the crab traps. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

These fugitive dignitaries are both from the Batetela tribe and learned French in mission schools, but have no inkling of how to talk to the Kwango tribesmen who fish the rivers east of Léopoldville. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He fishes for tools, a socket key, copper wire. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

After a lively battle, I land the fish. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The same woman asked, “Did the freeze kill off the rest of your fish?” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looks to be around my age, and he gasps like a fish on a riverbank as we run. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“Have you run our boat aground in search of yer favorite fish?” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

The fish stared at Ba with its round eyes and made no sound. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

All fish analyzed, whether taken alive or dead, had stored DDT in their tissues. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Pixie eased her sparkly toes right up against the fishing poles, where we’d left them lying on the shore. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Edna and the others keep staring at her like dead fish. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The smell of dying leaves in the motionless gray morning as he shambled up onto the porch after a night’s fishing, and the full, fine growth in the cedar trees. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The doomed fish of Flint Creek included large numbers of white crappies, a favorite among anglers. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

At some point, Alex disentangles his jeans from the foot of the bed and fishes out his phone. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Mom is not a fish, not even close. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

He did not ask my name nor I his, but I had seen his quick eyes go to the firearms in their rubber slings, to the fishing rods pinioned against the wall. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Not exactly threatened, but I sure felt warned; he doesn’t want me talking to Sheriff“Smith about what he did to Emmett while we were fishing.” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

“You fry me some fish. Ah kin eat dat standin’ up. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

While we ate, R.C. talked about how many fish he’d caught, his work down on the docks, and some raunchy stuff about girls he’d known. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Trotter started for his house as I fished my key out of my jeans pocket. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

And so I have done for the past half-hour, contemplating the progress of the various figures seated quietly with their fishing rods at various points around the water. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Miss Volker hollered over the phone before I heard the receiver drop and bounce across her floor like a fish flopping around. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

During the century after Verrazzano Europeans were regular visitors to the Dawnland, usually fishing, sometimes trading, occasionally kidnapping natives as souvenirs. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

My Liberty Head silver dollar, fishing lure, and skeleton key. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

He hacked at the fish and divvied it up. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Any cell—man, animal, fish, fowl, or insect—given the chance and under the right conditions, brought into contact with any other cell, however foreign, will fuse with it. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

In typical Japanese fashion, they all wanted to be independent commercial fishermen, yet they almost always fished together. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fishing boats that went out from Provincetown went out when night was still dark, so that as the first light brought out the fish they could be there, nets down and ready. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could not talk to the fish anymore because the fish had been ruined too badly. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he got to the bank, he walked upstream toward his favorite fishing spot. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Growing up, they had wielded axes and fishing gaffs and pitchforks expertly, and they had built up strong arms and broad shoulders doing so. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“I was thinking ’bout getting Old Flapjack and going fishing. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Small salty fish with tiny fishy bones every freaking place she looks. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

When the fish had been hit it was as though he himself were hit. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I draw a bird and a fish falling in love. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Carefully Marie-Laure opens her knapsack, breaks open the loaf hidden inside, and fishes with her fingers for the coil of paper. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Out in the estuary a tight woven school of small fishes glittered and broke water to escape a school of great fishes that drove in to eat them. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

They consider it no less than their bounden duty to bring back a larger fish than last year. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

One of the most spectacular fish kills of recent years occurred in the Colorado River below Austin, Texas, in 1961. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

She saw them some evenings sitting under a maple tree eating rice and fish off of tin plates. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

As for the fish, they were found to be in an advanced state of decay and had to be thrown into the garbage can. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pterodactyl bobbed and scooped up a mouthful of fish. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

Or it is a thick yellow grub highly prized for fish bait. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

They sprayed truck gardens and dairy farms, fish ponds and salt marshes. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

That was the ice she had to help Nokomis chop every day from the deep hole they fished through. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

His real name was Charles Walker, but everyone called him Trout because his two feet smelled like a couple of dead fish. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

“You can’t fish here. You have to leave. Get out of here.” Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

He helped us store fish for the upcoming storms and plot out a burial yard for more than a hundred bodies, including the man who wound his watch. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

The combination of olive oil, hearty vegetables, and cheese that comes from goat's milk, mixed with decent servings of fish and meat, had been shown in numerous studies to promote longevity. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Cans of tuna fish and bags of flour. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

He had no feathers so he just left them bare, figuring for fish they only had to travel a few inches. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The month when the great fish come,” the old man said. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

A long silver fish glistens like metal on the line. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Mom’s fish looked a little, well, fishy, as she picked at it with her fork. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

I hurriedly wrapped a fish in a blanket, gathered a hatchet and made for the raft. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Steer east and think about what happens when the sun comes up and the big fish rises. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

From what I understood, mostly from the illustrations, Mom and the researchers wanted to take a harpoon fishing boat into a stretch of Cape Cod where fishermen had spotted white sharks. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Beto started to take two fish from the basket in the shallows, but Naomi shook her head. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He don’t fish—never has—but he likes to know. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

We clean up the plate and spoon, and Sandy throws out the rest of the fish and its insides and all back into the river, the way I’d asked him to in the first place. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

She set the fish package down on the wall, where it would stay chilled until she was ready to cook it. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

In fact, fishing those creeks was like fishing a tunnel. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s about ready to tell the story of catching the tuna all over again, for anybody who didn’t hear it the first time, when Mr. Nagahachi the fish buyer shows up. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

His hand went backward 330 and, fishing out a cow’s foot from the basket, he let it fly. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What do you mean? What tree? What fish?” Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

After I got my fish and the money and everything. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

We liked to go fishing, but we never came home with any fish. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

My dad says that’s how the first human caught a fish, by watching what the birds did. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

A lifetime of peaceful vegetarianism stood between me and the willful beheading of a fish. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

We bought some rice, some palm oil, salt, and fish; by the time we were done, the market was filling up with people hurriedly trying to buy whatever they could afford. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I fished just long enough to catch three bass, about half an hour. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

This is the fear that made fish crawl out onto dry land and evolve lungs, the fear that teaches us to run, the fear that makes us bury our dead. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

“By golly, they are; and so are potatoes, sort of. Fish?” pondered Matt, “I suppose there are lots of fish around here.” My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

They passed one huge tank full of tropical species, and when Frank pointed to a particular fish and asked what it was, Kate said, “Oh, those are the yellow ones.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The doorknob guards were three dried-out fish heads that someone had nailed to the door. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

The sun was rising for the third time since he had put to sea when the fish started to circle. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Fish? Yes, a little fish,” said the man. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

There are three things that are brothers: the fish and my two hands. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Valley stuffed the jelly bean fish back into her rucksack, and her face went red. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Lydia peers into the salad bowl, fishing out a stray piece of lettuce and eating it with her fingers. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Holding his breath, Cole watched the silver fish. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

One day, when he handed Mrs. Sen the paper bag, he said, “No more fish for a while. Cook the chicken in the freezer. I need to start holding office hours.” Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Former owner and boss of a frozen fish packing company, who retired and became the solo skipper of his own ship—an RV he drove around the country. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The drill instructor and the swimming instructor had to jump in and fish me out. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I fished the emergency money Dad had given me from my pocket, figuring that a little extortion was a small price to pay to find the woman I’d crossed the Atlantic to meet. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

He gestured at Mike, who reached in his pouch and fished out a lead probatio tablet on a leather cord. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Shirley threw herself on the mattress and lolled about like a fish tossed back to the sea. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

The fish would eat them, or eat what they could, and the feeding action would bring more fish. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

I eliminated the one about multiplying loaves and fishes, as I never wanted to see food again. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Ohio Supreme Court, reviewing the case on appeal, was obviously uncomfortable with the blatant fishing expedition for drugs. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

She prods the chicken, flexes a wing, pokes a finger into the cavity, fishes out the giblets. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first day out was fun for everyone as they swam and caught some fish, which Ginny cooked. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

He meant to refuse meat but his past diet of fruit and nuts, with an odd crab or fish, gave him too little resistance. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Instead, I reach into my pocket and fish out everything I have. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

As the salesman recalled it, Hale had independently pushed for the policy, saying, “Hells bells, that’s just like spearing fish in a keg.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

But it was like Mellie could just sniff out the fish. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Mom slides out of the driver’s seat and fishes a set of jumper cables out of the trunk. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

The newspaper was fished out of trash cans, section by section, and I was always on the lookout for a good chicken-back recipe. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“I was running out of new ways to fix fish, and he’s bound to bring home more tonight.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Oh,” he says, “you going to fish a few traps this summer? Good for you, son.” The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

The big wagon box was piled full, and some of the fish were as big as Laura. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fish may be monsters, and you may be afloat on a doomed vessel—a pirate ship, perhaps—unaware of the breadth and the depth of the peril it sails upon. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

"Under the sea, die fish eat us. I know, I know, oh, oh, oh." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Please, Auntie Mims, can't we give the poor kid a break? I just fished him out of the river a couple of days ago!” A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

As wide-eyed sturgeon stared from glass cases, I led us into the shop, around the counter where Dylan spent his days mumbling curses and scaling fish, through a rust-pocked door. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

I wish it had been a dream now and that I had never hooked the fish and was alone in bed on the newspapers. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Later that same day, a fishing ketch was taken by Seven Skulls and Thrall's Bane. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He saw the aurora borealis, meteor showers over tumbling black waves, night skies so clear the stars seemed within reach, hung from a ceiling by fishing wire. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Their fish tails shimmered in rainbow colors, glowing phosphorescent. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Behind me in the pond I heard a big fish, a bass, jump and fall back into the water with a thump. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Bake bread, etc. hunt, and fish, trap, do most anything else. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I would go fishing, a practical way of resting. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

He dropped like an anvil, his finger still pointing at the fish. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

When fish make a commotion feeding on the surface, birds will circle over and dive. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

He handed his fishing rod to Beto and climbed the bank. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“We can all have some tuna fish together!” said Louisiana. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

The girl claimed she had found the fish in a rubbish pile outside a rich home when she traveled to a far town, but no one believed her. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Jimmy’s hands came up to his neck and he staggered out from behind the board with the jungle and the holes and started flopping ’round on stage like a fish tossed out of water. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

“There is no such fish if you are still strong as you say.” The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Bucket of bait? If your old man is back fishing, he’s going to want it by the barrel.” The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Some days, though, I’d stay home and go fishing with R.C. down on the Yazoo. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

He nudged the plate of pickled fish and black bread toward Lee, who took a mouthful and nodded for Sam to tell him more. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t notice if any of the smoked venison or fish was gone, but I’ll bet they are. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was furious to be presented with a fish when he had commanded a dragon. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Perhaps he was healing her with his slime—for all the fishes are said to go to the Tench for medicine—or perhaps it was by touch or massage or hypnotism. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beginning that day, every evening, straight from work at the furniture store, I went doing what we Muslims later came to call “fishing.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The angler fish glowed bright and then once more launched its body. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

She thought of the red thing—the red thing that hadn’t actually been red and was clearly just a jumping fish—and then she heard a peculiar, rhythmic thumping. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

This day, this morning, he was not looking for fish. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

In this particular stream, game fish had been reduced by 80 per cent. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Cold and hungry, the only food we have to eat are the fish and rabbits that float by. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She heaved the fish through a window, but the sirens were so loud I could barely even hear the glass break-ing. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

“The food is supposed to be incredible. Snails, fish eggs, the works.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

It was a rope with barbs attached, something Anya had sometimes seen fishermen use to catch fish. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

“And this is you with the fish, right? So obviously thrilled.” Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

She bought a little rice and dried fish. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Quit with your bellyaching, child. I’ve got fish to clean and fry. You want my job?” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“You were like a bird and a fish all rolled into one.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

What he fished out of that pocket didn’t surprise me one bit: stainless-steel brass knuckles. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She didn’t know why, at the sight of anyone unfamiliar, she felt like a fish trapped in a bowl of ice, unable to even gasp for air. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

I look around for the fish and there it is, fifty or sixty feet away. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Something hurt him then,” he said aloud and pulled back on the line to see if he could turn the fish. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father assembled his long bamboo fishing pole, a pole he had made with his own two hands, remembering its design from his childhood in China. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The five remaining flying fish in the locker were dead. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

She fished the horseshoes out of her pocket. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Park had gym class right after lunch, and he ran so hard during drills, he'd started to retch up his fish sandwich. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

More and more bodies were tossed overboard, where the huge gray fish waited hungrily for their meal. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

By dish ten, a steamed fish, everyone was groaning. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’d swim and fish and cook our catch over an open fire. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

All nine Little Baldy Bear Lakes were visible now, and at the uppermost lake a pair of campers in a bright yellow rubber boat were fishing. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The flashlight beam fell on a teddy bear, a stuffed toy rabbit, fishing rods, a toolbox, piles of books, and a plastic sword that stuck out of a sleeping bag. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Picking up the fish, he talks in a stern fishy voice: “‘No, thank you! Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

She smacked me with a dried fish, then we ate it. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

“Sure. Bears eat them—love to eat them. I can’t eat them yet, but by about the third day if we don’t find something else or get some fish they’ll probably be looking pretty good.” The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

Styx brought up a fishing pole and studied the winding mechanism. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Others were crossing in the small boats belonging to the Anyuak tribesmen, who used them to fish on the river. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the fish stops moving I get out the oars and work the skiff as close as I can. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“This is where I like to fish in the mornings,” he seems to be saying. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

He grabbed the knife and hacked a chunk out of the fish’s belly. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would fish like a lady, with good posture and a demure manner. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But perhaps I will pick up a stray and perhaps my big fish is around them. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

We put each bundle into a canvas sack, then into a second one for good measure, and tied up the neck with more fishing line. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

The moon shone above so even in the darkness of the night, the fish seemed to burn a bright orange. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

“What? You get Apex-7 for the wedding, but I get penguins? I’ve been to the aquarium. Penguins reek like rotten fish. No, thank you.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

"If you was a fish, Mother Nature'd take care of you, wouldn't she? Right? You don't think them fish just die when it gets to be winter, do ya?" The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

The fish learned to drive and the humans lived in the sea. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

The water was so clear that she could see tiny brown fish near the bottom, flicking this way and that. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the residents of Hippie Cove were, like me, summer squatters who’d come to Cordova hoping to score high-paying fishing jobs or, failing that, find work in the salmon canneries. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Akira jumped up, screaming, “I know, I know! I can smell it! You got fish!” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I saw I was fishing on a wrong angle. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

In spite of myself I pictured a father with shiny black arms pulling fish from the river and a mother with dark, heavy breasts pounding manioc in a wooden trough. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But you’re saying she ended up working in the fish place.” Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“You fascists like fish, don’t you? You pigs disgust me.” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Watching the amazing fish leap and slash dive and basically go nuts just out of range. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

I caught more fish than he did, but I would have traded places. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could see skeletons of fish and seashells embedded in the dirt around them. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Through it all Lyra and Pantalaimon darted like fish, making always for the dormitory, and just as they reached it, there was a dull explosion from behind that shook the building. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Three short guys took huge fish—big like they were baby sharks or something—and hacked the heads off with giant knives. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

When they seemed more interested in me than in food, and the fish started to swim away, he seized it with his sharp teeth and tossed it in front of them. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The fishes have eaten her up by now, haven’t they?” he said. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Still, she worked on, clumsily at first, until she had fileted all four fish. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

But the morning broke clear and in front of me lay the dim line of the island like a great fish sunning itself on the sea. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

"But I cannot take your beloved fish from you," he continued. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

The fish sounds in the night were closer now. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

After fishing and foraging in the mornings for the family, Baba was doing carpentry for Gupta in the afternoons. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

We discovered that a man named Bill sold fresh fish on Prospect Street, and that a shop in Harvard Square called Cardullo’s sold bay leaves and cloves. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

I feel bad for her, so I buy the fish platter. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

“If we can find Wash, can we go fishing? ” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

She fished around in her handbag and found Bruno. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

“I don't like school,” Gabe had replied, feeling the fishing line between his fingers. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Ron’s magic wand was lying on top of a fish tank full of frog spawn on the windowsill, next to his fat gray rat, Scabbers, who was snoozing in a patch of sun. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

It filled him with sadness, coming here to give garri and fish to people who had fed themselves in the North, listening week after week to Master saying the same things. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He could not see the fish’s jumps but only heard the breaking of the ocean and the heavy splash as he fell. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Best time of all for fishing,” he said, “when they come up to feed.” Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ninety-nine days later, the magistrate came to collect his dragon and, instead, found a stone fish. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Their hair was woven into an intricate pattern, more like the scales of fish than like any style Nhamo had seen. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perversely I long for the desserts of my childhood, the desserts of war, simple and inexpensive and bland: tapioca pudding, with its gelatinous fish eyes, Jell-O caramel pudding, Junket. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I asked, “How did you know that? You had buffalo fish before?” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the fish was still calling my name. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

The entire set of these meals is now united as a single block of text which serves as an exemplification of herons eating things other than fish. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

I draw a very small fish swimming in the ocean and realizing it's filled with planets and stars. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The men fished until there were stars, and still the sky did not darken until they brought their catch ashore. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“NOTES: “Today I rafted out into the deep pools of the creek to fish. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was no pot of yellow rice and fish and the boy knew this too. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The day was windless, and since I had all I could carry, I tied the canoe, and with Rontu following me, climbed onto the reef to look for fish to spear for our supper. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just as I was fixing to talk about fishing, Mrs. Snodgrass yelled from over near the smokehouse for Smiley to come catch her a chicken. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Strange, but it felt normal to be disemboweling fish together. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Give ’em part of the profit to tow me and the big fish back to the dock. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Hungry as he was, he would not move to receive his ration of fish, which François had to bring to him. The Call of the Wild 1903-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now Mr. Fitt was a grim man, an enforcer, with a small, sneering mouth; in another life he might have been a carnivorous fish. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jones had to make two trips a day to the canneries for fish heads to feed their charges. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I heard the motor fade in the distance and finally sputter and die, I stood up and came out from behind my bush, not forgetting my milk and fish. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

In the old days they fished from schooners, big wooden ships with white canvas sails that took the fishermen far offshore to the Grand Banks fishing grounds. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

They came home with fish bulging out of their clothes. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

"It's too far to go and fish and come back the same day, comfortably." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Remembering the fish’s warning, she carefully didn’t mention Dragon waiting for her in the forest. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

He expected that Hooper would have caught a fish, and it would be cooking on the fire. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

They skimmed along the bottom and turned over rocks to flush out frogs and fish. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

They swelled up and got mighty sore; not even a mesquite thorn hurts as bad as a sharp fish fin when it’s run deep into your hand. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

She can catch fish with a thorn hook and a line of braided basswood, and she knows the wild edible plants. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He knew that he was turning into a fish. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Smith left his lieutenant, Thomas Hunt, behind in Maine to finish loading the other ship with dried fish. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I tried to tell him that he was young and that there were a lot of fish in the sea, but it was little consolation. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

They are widespread and the flying fish have little chance. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then add some scoops of dead fish and a splash of skunk spray. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

He had his harpoon ready, but I didn’t see any fish except for those small silver ones. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Often, Ben had watched Jim Don walking the halls of school escorted by Ansley and a school of pilot fish mainly composed of third string football players. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was rather like the adipose fin of a fish, but gaudy. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I finally parked the truck at the clearing not far from Grampa’s fishing hole, I was feeling better. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

I plunge my hand into the bottom of the globe and fish out my paper. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

People stopped trying to raise hogs because it was too difficult to get slop rich enough to feed them, and no one had the money to buy mash or fish meal. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

She watches as the fish swims upward before diving back down to the bottom. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

All I could think of was how when Red came back and opened the trunk to put the fish he’d caught inside, he was going to kill me. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was no part of the hook that a great fish could feel which was not sweet smelling and good tasting. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

We ate smoked fish for dinner with boiled dogtooth violet bulbs. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stuck his blade into the tail end of the fish and cut up to its head, letting the blood drip onto Emmett’s chest and face. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

By the time the pencil woman dropped the pages upon his desk, dread was making Reynie’s stomach flop like a fish. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

If she closed her eyes, she could almost smell the pungent fish stew. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t a fish, because the body felt long and narrow. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Loki took a ball of nettle yarn, and he began to knot and weave it into a fishing net, the first such net ever to be made. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

He held a fishing rod in his hands, his head bowed to hide his eyes. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I must keep you, my little fish, swimming to the top of the water for food. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Valley took jelly bean fish from her bag and looked at Seven. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

She fished around in a pocket of her dress and brought out a very small bottle. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

You’re already familiar with nouns from the animal kingdom that can stand for one critter or many: fish, deer, moose, vermin, elk, sheep, swine. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beached whales, porpoises caught in fishing nets, mermaids with hangnails— they’d call me to come underwater and help. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

“No. We didn’t only talk about that. But...I dunno...it gave me a weird feeling. And his dæmon chewing at her bloody leg...Except he was nice. He bought me some fish and chips.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

He wanted to make a tuna fish of Lego and hang it like a piece of taxidermy. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Where a rat had gone, a flying fish would follow. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was the gaffs that finally proved to be my most valuable fishing equipment. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was on the third turn that he saw the fish first. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I realized why my dad refuses to shop for anything, even golf clubs and fishing gear, with my mom. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Between the rose bowls the books were duly set out—a row of nursery quartos opened invitingly each at some gaily coloured image of beast or fish or bird. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

A heron flew over the bamboo wood and Siddhartha took the heron into his soul, flew over forest and mountains, became a heron, ate fishes, suffered heron hunger, used heron language, died a heron’s death. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was all very well for Brother Luke to bring him fishing, but it only seemed to make it harder that he couldn’t run about or swim like the other boys. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

School didn’t give us enough time to visit, so Abby lifted her talking ban while fishing. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Before departing, Franz gave McCandless a machete, an arctic parka, a collapsible fishing pole, and some other gear for his Alaska undertaking. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It follows the ocean’s shoreline, and I look for snowy egrets standing stick-still in the salt marshes and osprey circling, hunting fish. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fish had slowed again and was going at his usual pace. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

One teaches him to fish with a line coiled on a shampoo bottle. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

After a while we put away our fishing rods and sat down to wait for the sunset. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

The fish was silvery and still and floated with the waves. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

But who replaces this fish if I hook some fish and it cuts him off? The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

And it didn’t matter if he rebuffed or rejected a person, because someone else was sure to phone with yet another offer to play chess, see a movie, or eat a fish dinner. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Of the fishing village, nothing remained but cold ashes that stank when it rained. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“The naturalist. Carried dead fish around in his suitcase and kept a jackal in his rooms.” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Included among these fish were sunfish and bass, which of course are favorites of anglers and commonly find their way to the dinner table. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“Just why do you think you have such a morbid aversion to fish?” asked Major Sanderson triumphantly. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Your pinata skills need work, its gaping fish mouth seemed to tell her. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

There was the relish of eating my first fried fish sandwich, nibbling at it slowly and hoping that I would never eat it up. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Scattered almost randomly around the top of the mounds are burned, oxidized chunks of rock—hearth stones—in drifts of fish bones and ash. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Why don’t you understand? No toys in the fish tank! Chew with your mouth closed! Don’t open or close doors at other people’s houses!” Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We want to see what kind of fish you have,” the voice persists. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But as she swam away, he saw that instead of legs, she had a fish tail. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

“People pay him to do things. Usually revenge stuff. You know, steal someone’s homework and paste it on the ceiling. Put dead fish in someone’s glove compartment. Stuff like that.” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

He slid the root through the fish’s gills and then tied the rope tight. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Look at me, I got my name from Hemingway’s fishing boat. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Is it better to be safe here, in a cage with a swing set and cubes of frozen fish? A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Cari had delighted in that job, but Beto had looked away, unsure about the whole business until they pulled in the first fish. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

But the chemicals in these Earth defoliants killed most fish and mammals too, as well as humans. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

He rubbed his left elbow and arm and said, “You had you some luck fishing?” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

He knew that each of the jerking bumps of the shark had been meat tom away and that the fish now made a trail for all sharks as wide as a highway through the sea. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

She doesn’t want to waste a moment, but she fishes her phone from her pack. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Its owner, Mr. Pilkington, was an easy-going gentleman farmer who spent most of his time in fishing or hunting according to the season. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

Ammu smiled at the silence around the table as she picked fried emperor fish off the bone. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

We wandered the streets, among the people and bomb craters, chewing dried fish. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

“I got power of fish in me—feel more better,” Amari said as she tried to stand up. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe he’d gotten the halibut from a fishing boat that morning. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The time he tried to teach me how to fish immediately comes to mind—think fishing hooks in toes and ears and everywhere else except a fish’s mouth. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Isn’t it kinda weird that the traps didn’t work if they love jelly bean fish so much?” Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Her hand, held by his, twitched like a fish on a hook, and he recognized the astounded expression in her eyes from earlier incidents in his career. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dragon and Minli looked in the water and saw a large orange fish with a black fin swimming next to them. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes turned milky as a sun-ripened tiger fish, and then he died. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ahmad taught him how to spear a fish, how to row a boat alone, how to dive from the great Phoenician stones on the islands southern wall. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

It was an old fish with ugly spots. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ve never lost a crew member, thank God, but I have lost a fishing boat to a storm. The Inafundável. Was a shame, it was. Haven’t forgiven myself. Never will, I imagine.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

“I have fresh fish for sale ” Storing live fish to eat later had been a major breakthrough, he thought. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a moment, a venerable salmon rippled up; Medwyn stroked the jaws of the huge fish. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

We spent the next week fishing, hunting, trapping, gathering greens and bulbs. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sitting in the shade, we eat our meal of thin rice soup and salted fish in silence. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I fished in my backpack for the book I’d had my father sign for Mrs. Castro. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

I agree with them that the proper way to prepare fish like this is to poach it, and that is what they do with the finest specimens. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The mooring line, okay, I’ll give you that. The fishing gaffs a maybe, but assume I’ll go with you. Where do you take me from there?” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

You did not kill the fish only to keep alive and to sell for food, he thought. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. Because a sauce takes time and love. Once you catch the fish, the job is done. God’s done all the work for you.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

A red fish with a mean face swims in a tank near the register. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Now he went back and forth between rabbits and fbolbirds when he could, filling in with fish in the middle. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fish lay lifeless on the floor—now broken pieces of stone. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

His second new night, stomach full of fish and the fire smoldering in die shelter, he had been sound asleep when something—he thought later it might be smell— had awakened him. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

R.C. ate as we walked, stuffing himself with the loot Gramma had packed When we were still a ways from our fishing hole, he belched and handed the half-empty bag back to me. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Reb Saunders put some salad and fish on his plate and ate a small piece of the fish, holding it in his fingers. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Edwin’s small skiff led the way, followed by a large green fishing trawler. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

There’s fish in it, andflowers, and some elephant dung as well. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Sometimes I do feel like a fish,” I say. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

There’s the click-click-click of the gas stove, and then the sizzling of fish. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

The Basque established their secret sacred fishing grounds off the coast of Newfoundland twelve hundred years back. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

As the sun rose higher in the sky, he felt drawn thin and tight as a fishing line. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

“And you’re all eating fish right now, but they hunt and eat a wide variety of animals, including the seal, the sea lion, the stingray, the squid, and the octopus.” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

“Some fish get caught for biting and some fish just get caught for being in the wrong part of the pond.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

The fish was pinned neatly and he took two more with the same ease, then carried all three back up to the fire. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was tired of eating fish and sea- grape leaves, and I wanted to save the few green coconuts I’d managed to find on the ground. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tribes who are our friends must have convinced our enemies to stop attacking us, and it is no longer dangerous to leave the fort to hunt or fish. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

After staring at Olive for a few moments, Henry looks at me and says, “And speaking of big fish—Delsie! You should have seen the whopper we pulled in today!” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

For all their patient waiting, James and Sammy caught only two fish. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

For an aquarium worker, she didn’t seem to know much or care much about the smaller fish. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Once in, he let the bag fall onto the floor and hunched over to fish out his phone’s charging cable. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Then we put the logs back where they were, unless we need some of these things for fishing. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re going to have to do more than sweet-talk a fish,” Jinx said, emerging from the bushes. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Next day they hiked to all the lakes, fished a little more, lazed about in the warm misty weather, and, strangely, encountered not another soul. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I went fishing at sunup. It’s probably around eight by now.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

As I watched, the entire sea around her was sucked into the void—sharks, schools of fish, a giant squid. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

I’d been lying on the couch watching a fish tank in the corner, its one golden prisoner swimming in lazy circles. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

I’m going fishing and I want to see him before I leave.’ Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

“You know where I’m talking about? J.T., Digger, and I used to go fishing there? Swimming, too, sometimes.” Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

I could close my eyes and almost see him, humped up and waddling along, fishing under the banks with his delicate little paws for crawfish, frogs, and minnows. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re in the stories! You are the fish that was given to the first king of the City of Bright Moonlight!” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Lourdes fished Pilar’s book out of the tub with barbecue tongs and placed it on the porcelain platter she reserved for her roasted pork legs. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You knew right away when a man stopped fishing and started running rum,” a Massachusetts woman later recounted. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

“There is fear in the wind,” the fish said, “great worry.” Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

No matter what Dobrynya said, there was no way Håkon was on the same level as a dog, or one of the goats, or a fish. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

It was as much as ever he could do to keep afloat, and when he reached the grating he rolled over in the water, belly uppermost, like a dying fish. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Where there’s sunlight and the path isn’t wet? Where it doesn’t smell like spoiled fish?” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Isabella gives me a big smile, and I feel like one of the little fish is struggling to swim its way back up my throat. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

When Dae Hyun was thirteen and still living in South Korea, his father began grooming him to take over the family’s meager crab fishing business. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Yesterday, they had suddenly stumbled upon an Indian village, passing palm-leaf shelters along the shore and some sticks poking out of the water, which was all that was left of the Indians’ fishing trap. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

“So things at the department are . . .” “Very good, yes, thank you, and Ralph’s doing very well, except, you know, that he may be ‘climbing a tree to catch fish’...” Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I go fishing by myself, mostly so I’ll have something to put in my letters to him. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Anyhow, first thing I do is fish the rope out of the bait shack. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Beto swallowed, lifted the shotgun again, and stared down the barrel at Wash. Wash who had taught him to fish. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

In my dream a fishing float'd appeared in the water, orange on glossy dark, just a few feet out. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

She’d fashioned a needle from a fish bone and stripped plant roots down to a stiff, thin thread. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Victor fished a mint out of his desk drawer and popped it into his mouth. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

She liked to know about everything, from the most peaceful tiny fish to the hungriest shark. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

At the same instant he thought of eating the fish, it moved off and disappeared. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

The third tongue was reeling me toward it; I was a fish on a hook. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Then the Palace was only a long bare room, lit dimly by two small windows, walled with unpainted wood smelling strongly of fish meal. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe, I thought, Grandfather told me not to fish this dark side of the lake because no fish lived here! The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

You fry a fish and throw the pan overboard. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The children should have returned exhilarated and with a deep and abiding love for the sea and he should have returned with a fine mess of fish. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d never really thought of it, but die fish—the fish he had been eating all this time had to eat, too. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

As might have been expected, all of these fish contained DDT. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

"Let's fish at the lake. We can leave our poles and gather in the woods. Get something nice for tonight," he says. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Even without such complications, normal agricultural use subjects fish to far heavier concentrations of chemicals than would be required to kill them. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The snakes slithered and the insects buzzed and the fish jumped up from the river. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Margo slipped the fish underneath it, and then she counted to three, and in one motion we slammed the seat down on the fish. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

He fished out the photo of his father with one arm slung so casually around the black-and-white dog. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Phil laughs again and fishes out a worn piece of paper from his wallet. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Schools of silver fish dart in and out, acting with one mind. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe they hitched a ride on a fishing boat,” JoJo said. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The walls and ceilings were peppermint, and here and there, you’d see a bit of fishing net, or a rotted piece from a boat stuck up high near the cornicing. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we hit the open ocean, Henry turns on his GPS and fish finder. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

“I do not care. I caught two yesterday. But we will fish together now for I still have much to learn.” The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I learned how to chop fish, meat, and vegetables on a butcher-block cutting board from her. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No,” Axel said, because he doesn’t like fishing. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

A verdant, treacherous lawn, in which mosquitoes bred and fish were fat but inaccessible. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Do I realize that nitrogen fertilizers are destroying fish life by fostering an overgrowth of algae? Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The police are allowed by the courts to conduct fishing expeditions for drugs on streets and freeways based on nothing more than a hunch. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

He stopped and he did not want to look at the fish now. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Viola and Hildy are up ahead still, Viola’s eyes wide and her mouth gulping like a fish. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

She couldn’t even pull a bowstring, let alone do one of his famous feats, like shoot an arrow through the eye of a fish just by looking at its reflection. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He needed to write a poem about little fishes. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

Among these living carriers were fish that had hatched nine months after the last DDD application, grebes, and California gulls that had built up concentrations of more than 2000 parts per million. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

She grunted and handed me a small fish with glassy eyes. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fishing with Kapugen was murky-tan in her memory, for they would wade out into the river mouth where the stone weirs were built and drive the fish into nets between the walls. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I go ahead and eat the second fish. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

First two points of mast, then sails, transparent and wraithlike in the fog, then, as Kit strained her eyes, the looming hull, the prow, and the curved tail of a fish. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

One second they’re everywhere, the next the sea goes flat quiet and it’s like the fish were never there at all. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Within hours, tens of thousands of dead fish were floating on the surface like autumn leaves. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

A dark shape—some kind of animal—was wedged halfway under the boat and tangled in a fishing net, one of those big nets they use on trawlers to catch everything at once. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

He began to say, 'He was trying to catch a fish with his hands, and he slipped, he just fell in and bashed his head, that’s all. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

He said, The branch of the tree, the fish. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I was picking at my tuna fish sandwich, trying to ignore the smell while everyone else ate their nonstinky lunches. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Sam brought the fish and it looked terrible. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

For hours they followed figures up staircases that were also going down, or watched geese turn into fish and then into geese again. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

At the grocery store with my parents, sliding down long, too-bright aisles, and Emma is there, cooling her hands in the ice at the fish counter, meltwater running everywhere. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

A blue heron panned for small fish and a sail blazed against the shimmering green of the marsh. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The noise of rumbling carts laden with creaking cages and barrels of goods, the smells of raw fish and flesh, and the cries of sailors and merchants overwhelmed me. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

I made for the pond, bringing my feet down gingerly, in time to see meerkats swimming—actually swimming—and bringing to shore fish by the dozens, and not small fish either. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“You said that only American citizens could fish in the rivers. And Natives weren’t considered citizens yet.” The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

To this lifesaver, she tied the fishing line from my father’s bamboo pole. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can have fish and chips and go to the Lyric Cinema. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“For your information, I’ll be fishing all two hundred traps,” I go, bragging on my own idea. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

He had never fished before, but how hard could it be? Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

My mother wasn’t keen on fishing, but she was always happy when we’d come back with a cooler full of snappers. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

The monofilament line is transparent, said to be invisible to fish, and is completely invisible to me without my glasses. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then picking up a cloth bag, she throws bags of sugar, salt, dried fish, uncooked rice, and canned foods into it. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before he found the fish market he met a fellow he used to work with at the round house. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Manicured hedges and a fish pond added character to the yard. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Luckily, there were plenty of fish in the sea. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

“I was going to take Jubilee fishing over at Miss Esther’s pond. She’s down the road and doesn’t mind, long as I call her first.” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Even though no fish has seen the Dragon Gate, we all know at out it. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Some 25 million Americans look to fishing as a major source of recreation and another 15 million are at least casual anglers. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

That night, the girls cooked up a dinner of slightly burned fish, grubs, and bulrushes. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

She wrote down as many names of fish as she could think of: herring, cod, stingray, salmon, mackerel, haddock, shark, trout, perch, pike...What else was there? The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

The fish in the Jade River were brown and gray, like the village. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

They were in the stable yard of another inn in another fishing village, unpacking their gear for the night. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

In the Standing Fishes Bible, the fishermen must have looked on in such surprise when “the fish stood on the shore all the way from Engedi to Eneglaim.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The windows were all gone but the brick shell of the house remained, damp and blackened and steaming, and most of the roof, the dark slate shingles gleaming like fish scales from their recent soaking. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

One of the best-known examples of fish destruction in the United States took place in 1955, as a result of spraying in and near Yellowstone National Park. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

He stuffs his face with fried fish and eggs—that’s the Fish Hut’s breakfast special. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

In one quick movement, Roz pulled in the branch and gripped the fish with her two hands. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

As soon as the raft touched the water, the fish scattered—except for the sharks. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

He stood and walked from the water, still holding the fish and arrow and bow against die sky, seeing them as they fit his arms, as they were part of him. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

She turns a corner and drives into a market that makes me roll up the window to keep out the stink of dead fish. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He drank like a fish, was highly opinionated, and was a fearless helicopter pilot. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Occasionally, local fishermen give him a fish they have caught. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Jackson Street, though, smelled of rotting fish, cabbages and radishes fermenting in sea brine, sluggish sewers and diesel streetcar fumes. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

They mean fresh fish, fish that has been caught no more than twenty-four hours before and has never been frozen or chilled on a block of ice. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

I need attention like a fish needs a snorkel. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

The intimacy of it, the comfort of other voices giving credence to their private myths, prepared them to meet their wives with less distance than they might otherwise bring home after fishing. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Then,” he explained, “we shall secure it with fish glue, and the dust which comes from using the rubbing stone to polish the wood will fill in the least crack and make all smooth.” The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

He looked up at the sky and then out to his fish. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tell Michael about the time Lolo took us on a night fishing trip on a charter boat and we caught a twenty-pound tuna in the moonlight. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The girls went about the business of survival, collecting rainwater, identifying and gathering edible plant life, catching small fish with their straightening irons. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

They are paths followed by fish; although unseen and intangible, they are linked with the outflow of waters from the coastal rivers. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

No, those would be silly; but fishing line and hooks would be useful. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then there's a fish course that smells like something died, yet all those fine gentlemen and ladies gobble it up. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

And tinker means I must be pretty near the Ledge, where the big fish come to feed. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Underneath the ice, the angler fish glowed again. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

To Kilanga’s hungry people Our Father promised at summer’s end the bounty of the Lord, more fish than they had ever seen in their lives. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I have never seen or heard of such a fish. But I must kill him. I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars.” The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

A harpoon boat has a long catwalk that hangs over the water, so a fisherman can get closer to the big fish. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Where we went in Wisconsin to fish, using a fish trap carried a five-dollar fine. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Slivers of gray fish pickled in white glue, smoked fish with yellow eyes that bulged, raw red fish without heads or tails. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

The slightly reeking fish that she accepted for her own family she would all but throw in the fish man’s face if he sent it to the Fisher house. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

His rotten fish smell was awful, but I held on. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Waves seem to ripple across the fabric, and a school of bright orange fish zips around her waist. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

We have five fingers because we have descended from a Devonian fish that had five phalanges or bones in its fins. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Society called attention to the great variety of species of fish and other forms of life inhabiting the southeastern part of the United States, including species that occur nowhere else in the world. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

I found some old clothes and headed down the steps, preparing to be marinated in fish entrails. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Cradling her head the way Ralph had cradled the fish skull, she cried. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dinner would be whatever strange thing we’d been able to buy at the side of the river, but breakfast and lunch were always limp cassava bread and fish wrapped in banana leaf. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

I love the jellyfish, which remind me of streams of shiny cloth, and the lion- fish, which really do look a little like swimming lions. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

He could build things, fish, hunt for food, cook outside, and he had a shotgun. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Give the fish an inch and it’ll get its tail under the water and then there will be no stopping it. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

They fish for tourists now, not pilchards, and that species they are not likely to wipe out. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

She knew that if she moved her hand quickly enough she could stick her forefinger and thumb into the fish’s gills and, in a swift movement, lift it out of the water. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Is the boy with the red hair—” Ralph loudly sucked the cheek out of a steamed fish head. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lapita people depended heavily on seafood, including fish, porpoises, sea turtles, sharks, and shellfish. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

She went to the hardware shelves and looked at the knives, pans, fishing rods and nets. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

All went silent and Pinmei knew what a fish in a bowl felt like, for hundreds of large eyes stared at her. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Three boys with fishing poles came onto the bridge and we leaned on the rail and looked down at the trout. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Those lips whose warmth still lingered on my skin became blued as if frostbitten and gnawed on by the fish. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The black water was lapping against his giant shell, and the twinkling fishes were swimming around him. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

The reconstructed language is full of words indicating a maritime economy, such as “outrigger canoe,” “sail,” “giant clam,” “octopus,” “fish trap,” and “sea turtle.” Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Just a fish,” she whispered, and she ran the rest of the way to the miller. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

He chopped the fish and pushed pieces at each of us. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I just love fish. Do you know why?” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

It becomes increasingly hard for Kim to catch fish in the shallow water. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he reached the mouth of the bay, he spotted three seagulls pecking at a half-eaten fish on the rocks. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

The old man had taught the boy to fish and the boy loved him. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ships lined the strand; war galleys and fishing vessels, stout carracks and fatbottomed cogs. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The boatman plied his homemade nets not far from shore and brought in fat bream and tiger fish. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

We unpack the dried fish and rice and eat in silence. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We laid down the fishing poles and climbed up onto the log. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Never have I had such a strong fish nor one who acted so strangely. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fish was pulling so hard that the little boat was plowing and lurching through the waves. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Look, it doesn't matter, never mind about the fish. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

It was a little wooden fish painted dark green on top and light pink on bottom, with red lips and round eyes finished with cute curling eyelashes, all lacquered to a high shine. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

The first day we made a trip to the city dump to look for empty glass jars to put the fish in and for materials to build a stand. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

When the sun comes up there will be other boats out fishing for giant tuna, same as me. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

The dolphin were cutting through the water below the flight of the fish and would be in the water, driving at speed, when the fish dropped. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

She moved to block her mother from the fish. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Make another turn. Just smell them. Aren’t they lovely? Eat them good now and then there is the tuna. Hard and cold and lovely. Don’t be shy, fish. Eat them.” The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were only so many hours a man could devote to mending sails, caulking leaks, and fishing. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The Ortega boat, La Estrella, must have come back to Ensenada from the fishing trip it had left on six days ago. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

The boys were sent to fish in the Laptev Sea. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

The water was cold and tasted good, but I didn’t see no fish in it. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

While doing this, little fish swim over and eat the mess. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bear sinks its teeth into the fish's flesh because it must; it never terrorizes a deer for a night of fun, just because it can. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

There were only the flying fish that went up from his bow sailing away to either side and the yellow patches of Gulf weed. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the nearby open-air market, she bargained for fish, chicken, rice, vegetables, and salt. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

He loved hunting and fishing and getting away to the wilds where nobody could bother him. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Not the first time I’ve been somebody’s b-bad dream. Anyway, now I know what a fish feels like. I think I like Chicago better.” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

He thinks of the loaves and fishes even when he believes he is in a Real Presence. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

She watched him fish around for his key and open his front door. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Joe got stiffly up, dusted his seat and ambled across to the fish market. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So the Dragon Gate transforms fish into dragons, a wish many of us hold deep in our hearts,” the fish finished. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Mom really loved it when we were doing things together—she and Abbey fixing the salad and potatoes, Dad and me cleaning the fish. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

The sun peeked over the horizon, and he could actually see tiny lines where every one of the fish's bones had been. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

“More,” said the little boy, fishing another bottle cap from the litter. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

At her request we powdered the down over her lips and throat, penciled definition into her brows, and walked her to the banks of the fish pond where our children played cricket in the afternoon. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

The lake teemed with fresh fish, but they had nothing to catch them with. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

His cousin delivers fish wrapped in foreign newspapers, and he hears the Germans aren’t doing well in their war against Russia. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

An ugly girl should dress in ugly clothing, she decided, so she chose a stained brown cloak fraying at the hem, a musty green tunic smelling of fish, and a pair of heavy boots. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

From her sleeve, Lady Meng pulled out a set of gold chopsticks and dipped them into the water as if fishing for a dumpling in soup. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

“The stew is almost edible. The fish is fresh, at least.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The otter grew and its wound began to heal, but still it stayed in the pool, and now when I came it would be waiting for me and would take the fish from my hand. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

All he wants to do is hunt and fish, he says, but he has to feed and clothe all these babies. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Then he was sorry for the great fish that had nothing to eat and his determination to kill him never relaxed in his sorrow for him. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her rooms were large and airy, though, and Moreo swore that her fish stew was the most savory in all the Seven Kingdoms. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Now and then a fish jumps—big fish. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

What pea brains, eating his ripped flesh as indifferently as they would bits of fish! Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Gradually the stream grew smooth and once more they saw the fish below them, waving its tail as it held its place in the current. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He leaned over the side and pulled loose a piece of the meat of the fish where the shark had cut him. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are two hundred perfectly good traps stacked on the dock right now, all licensed and tagged, not doing nothing since my dad quit fishing. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

He settled comfortably against the wood and took his suffering as it came and the fish swam steadily and the boat moved slowly through the dark water. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

After this rock got done chunking the fish in the head, it skipped four times ’cross the water and slipped down in the lake quiet as a duck going after minnows. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

He’d left his most expensive fishing rod there, and he wanted to bring it home. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

The fish hit the wire several times more and each time he shook his head the old man gave up a little line. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Control the tail and you control the fish. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

He knew this and knelt and raised his stick to spear one, but the fish slipped on by. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

The minute he got his hands on it, the fish finned him and he went to crying. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Three things are never any good—farming, fishing, and hunting—compared to other years, that is. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I make a meal out of the smaller, bonier fish that inhabit the stream down here, fill every water container and purify it, and clean my weapons. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

And on the beach the white and blue canoes that came from Nayarit were drawn up, canoes preserved for generations by a hard shell-like waterproof plaster whose making was a secret of the fishing people. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pelicans were chattering as they fished the blue water. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the meal—cold fish with avocado sauce, roast suckling pig in brandy, and chocolate mousse—they dismissed the waiters and bolted the doors to the dining room. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I finally fell asleep Friday night, I dreamed that Dad and I were fishing somewhere on a gorgeous morning. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Then she waited for the fish to explain himself. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

It might be that a dolphin could swim faster than Lizzie through the water and a fish hawk dive faster through the air, but nothing alive could run across Malaga Island faster than Lizzie Griffin. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

He wanted good schooling for them all, opportunities apart from fishing and shipbuilding. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

All in all, Wallace made twelve trips down the Eternal Creek before some folks from Fry fished him out. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

The next afternoon we prepared the broth for a fish stew with wild onions—dinner for my guest. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

I take his spoon, fish out an ember from our fire, and send him on his way. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Cool Papa fried the fish sticks and poured ketchup on the spaghetti. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

And Kolkata, where everyone speaks Bangla, has brown skin, knows the words to Tagore songs, and loves to eat fish. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It was easy enough to get them through the club car, even with the pail of fish to carry. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Rats give many fish,” said the roach, cleaning its antennas casually. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Hate to split up the money, but if it means a higher price for a fresh fish, it’d be worth it, right? The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

I knelt next to Laleh as she pointed at the fish in question. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Women carried stacks of woven mats, baskets of fish and produce, yowling children. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Instead they plucked wild fruits from the forest, painted handprints on the walls, and ate the Amazon’s 1,500 species of fish, especially the 500-pound pirarucju, the world’s biggest freshwater fish. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I feel like a fish in a wire cage rather than a tank. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

“Rontu,” I would say after he had stolen a special fish I had speared for my supper, “tell me why it is that you are such a handsome dog and yet such a thief.” Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were demanding a giant portable fish tank for the journey west. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

That night in the great hall the victors feasted on roast meats and fresh-caught fish, washed down with rich red wines from the castle cellars. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

If I drift around for another hundred years or so, I might find another fish as big as the one that got away. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Birds wheeled over the fishing docks, and a long golden pennant flew from the cupola of Nero’s pale-pink palace. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

We used to fish at the river, upstream, and we’d race to see who could get there first. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

The air smelled of salt and fish and motor oil. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had his shirt off and his fishing boots on. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Alexandra had been and was still technically married to a large placid man named James Hancock, who ran a cotton warehouse with great exactitude for six days a week and fished on the seventh. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Even on the New Year they did eat but a fish they caught themselves in the lake and a pig they killed from the farm. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

The angler fish’s large abdomen crashed against the ice, and surprisingly, the ice did not crack. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

I stare out at the water, busy with ferries and fishing boats. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A lot more visits. I even fixed up the spare room where I stored my fishing gear so you would have a place to stay. Sometime, it’s almost like you live here.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Holy fish,” I whispered, grabbing on to Fred’s gold mermaid around my neck. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

She took out a clear bag filled with water and what looked like see-through fish. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

The air was thick with the cries of the stall owners promising the juiciest fish, the freshest fish, and fish fit for the King himself. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, he panted, his mouth opening and closing like a fish wrenched from water. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

He was a loathsome little creature: he paddled a small boat with his large flat feet, peering with pale luminous eyes and catching blind fish with his long fingers, and eating them raw. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I don’t even remember winding the fishing line around my pole, but all of a sudden I was clambering up the bank. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I placed his share, one and one-half fish, on the back porch, hoping he was watching so he would know to pick them up. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

What did Friday have to do with fish? Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

We threw in tortilla bits, trying to attract the little gray fish and goldfish that hid under murky waters. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

One Sunday fifteen years ago he sent word to his wife by way of a Negro boy from his fishing camp on the Tensas River that he was staying down there and not coming back. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“You know, this land belonged to the fish before it belonged to us. I have no doubt about the prophecy of the golden carp. He will come to rule again!” Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Glaucus was a fisherman who was fishing one day from a green meadow which sloped down to the sea. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

It followed me until my instincts got the better of me and I slipped into a side alley quick as a fish. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

You are killing me, fish, the old man thought. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You don’t really look like a fish,” he said. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

We walked past the fish market, the wig shop, and Everything Sports, before I realized that I had to make one quick stop. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

They also had never seen or used a fishing pole and hook to catch a fish. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

Grandma was rowing steady, and 1 was in the stern, wondering if the fish showed. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

The air was heavy with moisture, wet enough for fish to swim in. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can set snares and maybe get some fish. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The men went after fish, and whenever the boats came back—day or night—the women would be called to process the catch while it was fresh. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

I cannot see into the pot and my mouth salivates at the smell of the rice and fish. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So, I’m guessing fishing’s not really your thing. What do you like to do?” she asked. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

I know all about fish, fresh water and salt.' The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

After I fish out my lunch, I slam the door closed. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

"Baba," the stonecutter's son said finally, "that stone does not want to be a dragon. It wants to be a fish." When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

It was hot but not enough to burn, so I walked on it a piece, arms spread-eagle, balancing with my fishing pole like a tightrope-walker at the circus. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

She took two of the now-useless fish traps, plugged the small ends, and hung them by long ropes from the highest branch of the lucky-bean trees. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then everyone sings together “You get a line and I’ll get a pole, and we’ll go down to that fishing hole, honey, oh baby mine!” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“If you all don’t start eating this supper, I’m gonna”— Trotter stopped, fishing around for a proper threat. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

For Kelly J., I would also put out traps for mice, and catch fish for food. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

He would pull the bow back, set the arrow just above die water, and when die fish was no more than an inch away release the arrow. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

All who saw the fish could not help but feel happy, if only for that brief moment. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

He fished in his pockets and pulled out the gift. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

For three years, Ellis thought of Jones Point as the ideal spot for he and his companion Sampson, a 9-year-old golden retriever, to fish and play. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

His line was strong and made for heavy fish and he held it against his back until it was so taut that beads of water were jumping from it. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

But what happened to stream fish in an area observed by the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Game is perhaps a portent of things to come. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“The king of the city, I guess. Once I find him, I’m supposed to ask for the borrowed line, which, according to the fish, is something I’ll need for Never-Ending Mountain.” Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

He fished it out and looked at the screen. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

It felt good to leave the house on a fishing trip with enough lunch for me and R.C. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

One day, on my way home from school, I discovered little gray fish in the puddles. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe now he could finally find a fish in her face. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

I started to go by but old Phoebe stopped and made out she was watching the sea lions getting fed--a guy was throwing fish at them--so I went back. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

“Say, how long has it been since you heard of anybody catching a fish at the Eddy?” the second said to the third. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Next day I carried a basket of eels from the fish market to Wall Street, thinking only of hot eel pie for supper. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the fish came alive, with his death in him, and rose high out of the water showing all his great length and width and all his power and his beauty. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The air smelled of fish, autumn flowers, and dried mushrooms. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I promise I won’t wear any of your clothes to go fishing or climb trees,” I said aloud as I opened the latch. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I put on my mom’s rubber cleaning gloves, crammed some toilet paper up my nose, took a swampy breath through my mouth, and fished it out. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He fished a roll from his tool belt, and in no time Frank had wrapped it around Nike’s head, securing the gag in her mouth. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The grocer, tall, skinny Mr. Waylan, with his Adam’s apple sticking out above his collar, his fish- belly blue-white skin and oversized fingernails, was the white man I saw most often. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I turn the radio off and the light back on, fish my prayer book out my purse. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He spent two hours sewing up the rip with fishing line. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Back in the bow he laid the two fillets of fish out on the wood with the flying fish beside them. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Could he really leave the hospice and go fishing? The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

He climbed up on the big diving platform in the middle of the pool and unimaginatively just dropped the fish into the water. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

The trouble is that trout are not hungry when most people have time to fish. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’ll have our own hogs, fish to catch, and oysters to dig. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Soon there are so many sick that there is no one with strength to tend the gardens, no one with strength to hunt or fish. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Today we have a quarter-acre pond which already has frogs and little fish. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jonas knelt by a stream and tried without success to catch a fish with his hands. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

It turns out that they were hunters, gatherers, and fishing people enjoying a remarkably diverse and well-balanced diet that modern nutritionists would applaud. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

We are the fish, the street the barrel. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

About 90 percent of their diet was seafood—fish, shellfish, marine mammals, and seaweed—the Chinchorro ate almost no fruit, vegetables, or land animals. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

There were fish in the stream, but fish are accustomed to their lot in life and don’t experience sorrow as a general rule. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

The small group is standing around the cart, staring at it like it’s some strange fish, washed ashore. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Jessie did not come around anymore, she was fishing the rewarding waters of the open stream, she was returning to a tree hollow full of babies. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Absolutely, Dad. Besides, the freezer is getting dangerously low on fish — we’re down to a two, maybe three years’ supply.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

It's hard to love a place that's outlawed smoking but finds it perfectly acceptable to serve raw fish in a bath of chocolate. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

He had been friendly with me because I had said he could keep the fishing line. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Ralph felt a land of affectionate reverence for the conch, even though he had fished the thing out of the lagoon himself. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

We played B-ball, caught frogs and fished by the creek, climbed trees and stuff. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I have all those prayers I promised if I caught the fish, he thought. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You ask permission of this fish?” he asked. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I nodded, fished my phone out of my backpack, and turned it on. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

It had fish in it, too, though not as big or as many as the pond. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

“You will be fine, Frank Zhang. Keep practicing those sea life transformations. The koi fish is good, but try for a Portuguese man-of-war. Remember what I showed you. It’s all in the breathing.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

When the spear was done, although still crude, he jammed a wedge between the points to spread them apart and went to the fish pond. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

One day, the sea receded so far that fish were hopping on the ground. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

She let her fingers move gently in the water, and the fish glided in between them and held itself there with lazy motions of its tail while she very delicately stroked its slippery sides. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

This aquatic mayhem didn’t last long, but while it did, the sea bubbled and boiled, fish jumped and jaws worked hard. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

He was very fond of flying fish as they were his principal friends on the ocean. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first time Bloom traveled up to the Little Baldys he couldn’t believe the fishing. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

But what made Pinmei gape was that as the woman turned to swim away, she distinctly flipped the tail of a fish. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

And when they say fish, they don’t mean the sort of thing you and I get from the fishmonger. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Had we descended from a fish with four or six phalanges, we would have four or six fingers on each hand and would think them perfectly natural. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fishing boat glided swiftly over, toward the good cooking smells. “£/” called the woman up to the boat. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

But even though I’m talking again, I can’t seem to fish the words for an Our Father or Hail Mary out of my brain. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

“Talk about fly fishing. Did you ever hear of fly fishing for crocodiles?” The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wore an old fishing hat that seemed to cover his entire face, and plaid pants that left about two inches of sock and four inches of ankle showing. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were lockers built into the benches in the cockpit that held cushions, sailcanvas, fishing gear. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

“There are forty in your camp,” my father replied, “and more than that of us. Besides, you have your own fish, the dried ones that you brought.” Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

He fished out his acorns and threw them into the sand, then played his pipes. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

“Next!” fish man calls out, and Daddy steps forward. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

He rushes to a trunk and fishes around inside. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

“There has never been such a fish. Those were two fine fish you took yesterday too.” The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only thing I can think to do is drag the fish behind the skiff, tail first. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Pa ties a fish net to a long stick to catch them as they pass by in the rushing water beside our hut. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A dozen different sorts of meat and fish were served: camel, crocodile, singing squid, lacquered ducks and spiny grubs, with goat and ham and horse for those whose tastes were less exotic. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

As you see it it is, while the seeing lasts, dar\\ nightmare-history, timc-as-coffin; but where the water was rigid there will be fish, and men will survive on their flesh till spring. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I am a tired old man. But I have killed this fish which is my brother and now I must do the slave work.” The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he stepped out of his room in the morning, he found Suheyla pulling a fish trap out of the well. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Is it flying fish or dolphins or some undiscovered pulse? Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now I got to plan when I go fishing and go with someone that can drive. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He asked them about their home in Provincetown and their school, about Momma, about living in a summer resort area, about the fishing fleet and about books. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some tiles had windmills and tulips, others had ships and fish, and one had two figures standing side by side, holding hands. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

I rolled off the woodpile and crawled toward the door with the fish head guards. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

This explained how the fish had died—for, of course, place a saltwater fish in fresh water and it will quickly become bloated and die. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then I went to work on the net, untangling it section by section, getting lead weights and fishing hooks straightened out, yanking out knots around the cow serpent’s hooves. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

The fish slime glistened on his fingers as he raised the horseshoe, and Anya caught the briefest flash of magic spiderwebbing out from it. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

I hope she’s right, because I want to think that Mr. Daniels doing something mean to anyone is like a fish swimming upside down and backward. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

But the fish only continued to swim at a slightly higher level. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was as the meerkats were hauling the fish out of the pond, dis­playing real feats of teamwork, that I noticed something curious: every fish, without exception, was already dead. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

I wrote this one night: “The raft is almost done. Bando has promised to stay until we can sail out into the deep fishing holes. “Bando and I found some clay along the stream bank. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was shaking and saliva dripped out of his mouth as the smell of smoked meat, dried fish, and various stews wafted out from the cooking huts. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

When Cole reached camp, he jabbed the blunt end of his spear into the chest cavity of the fish and rotated it over the smoky flames. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Ivy’s stomach flipped and flopped like a fish on the beach. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“I fish the wide end of the creek and tend that garden.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

I clutched at a blanket to protect myself while also trying to catch some of the fish. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

She bemoaned her fate and challenged her stars as we hung our laundry or scrubbed scales from our fish. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

None of this prissy fish blanket business any more. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

It raked back and as the fish swam just below the surface the old man could see his huge bulk and the purple stripes that banded him. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tell him the usual sins and then, I stole fish and chips from a drunken man. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“How do you feel, fish?” he asked aloud. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There are stepping stones to go across, and little fish swimming, tiny ones—minnows?” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

“The guards say were not allowed fish. All of the fish we catch is stored for the NKVD.” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

I smoked fish and rabbit, dug wild onions by the pouchful, and raced September for her crop. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gale had two sets of bows and arrows, one hunting knife, one fishing net, and over eight hundred terrified people to feed. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“You know Pastor Richburg—he didn’t want to hold no chicken bogs or fish fries to raise money.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

It was on the top of a wind-swept cliff purged to the bone by the airs of the Atlantic, under which the little fishing village nestled among the dunes. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How can you tell what kind of fish it is?” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

When a fish twitched, Emmett flexed upward and tried to twist away, but R.C.’s knee kept him pinned. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

The green stars coalesced around it, flashing and whirling, echoing her movements like a school of fish, which, I realized, is just what they were. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

But still I made another string for my fishing spear, many hooks of abalone shell, and last of all earrings to match the necklace Tutok had given me. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

I spent the rest of the day in the shade of the canopy, fishing. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

They spread apart after they were out of the mouth of the harbour and each one headed for the part of the ocean where he hoped to find fish. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He put die three fish on the board, pushed sharpened pegs through their tails into cracks on the cooking board, and propped it next to the reddest part of the coals. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few times it had been really bad, and Pong had watched him choke and gasp like a fish drowning on dry land. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

The Spackle pulls himself slowly upright from where he’s skinning the fish. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

But the fish kept on circling slowly and the old man was wet with sweat and tired deep into his bones two hours later. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

But someone would usually slip a piece of hard bread, cheese, jerked beef, or salt fish and johnnycake in the pocket of his jacket as it hung on its hook. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ramo hopped along far in front with one of our baskets, but before long he ran back to say that he had forgotten his fishing spear. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Usually there was a good supply of salt fish kept in barrels, but fish had not been plentiful the past summer, so now the supply was meager. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

All he talks about is football and fishing. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Tell you one thing, Hiram, your granddaddy sure knows where the fish are.” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

“We have to prepare some meat and fish,” she would order the four cooks, who hastened to have everything ready under the imperturbable direction of Santa Sofía de la Piedad. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Downtown, with its cobblestone streets and absence of traffic lights, could still pass as a quaint New England fishing village. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Both boys climbed the huge outcropping of rock and settled at the top to prepare their fishing gear and cast their lines for salmon. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

The images drained away, as if the water had been let out from a gigantic crystal bowl of hysterical fish. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

And her friends tsk and shake their heads the same way they’ve seen their mothers do over meals of lemongrass tea and salt fish and fungi. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

‘You two—sitting there—looking like a couple of fishes.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was little experience of field use for either, and no one knew what their effects would be on wild birds, fishes, or mammals when applied on a massive scale. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Where this morning a battalion of tractors had plied the gravel paths, hauling carts loaded with fish and peat-bricks up and down from the harbor, now those carts were being pulled by horses and mules. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

He started to pull the fish in to have him alongside so that he could pass a line through his gills and out his mouth and make his head fast alongside the bow. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

If there’s a fishing booth let me know because those always have good prizes. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sharp scent of fish hits the room. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The live fish were specially ordered and were brought all the way from the coast in tank cars and glass boxes to 432 Proudfoot Avenue. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

He tied a spool of fishing line to the handle and lowered the can down a pipe leading from the roof. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

“What about the time you almost drowned trying to catch fish with that new kind of net you invented?” Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

Not free to break loaves or feed the world on a fish. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

My eyes pop at the sight of the fish gills on her neck. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

I have this image of Abuela Celia underwater, standing on a reef with tiny chrome fish darting by her face like flashes of light. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

In addition to bricks and wood, we carried barrels of kerosene, flour, and even small fishing boats, all for the NKVD. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Most of the fish are clustered around the coral reef. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

And after destroying the birds, beasts, reptiles, and fish of the Earth, the Nephilim began to eat one another’s flesh and drink one another’s blood. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Winnie squinted at her fishing line and tried to picture a teeming world. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked like an overstuffed net of fish being hauled onto the deck of a trawler. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The duck hunters dropped him in El Golfo de Santa Clara, a fishing village on the Gulf of California. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

His mouth was half open, a fish wing dangling from it. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

He’d unraveled a life line from the raft to make single strands for the fishing line. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I dropped beneath the hail of flying fish and reached for the dorado just ahead of a shark. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Early this morning our Father Abbot went out fishing with Matthias the Warrior. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

They even dropped fish hooks so we could catch our dinner in the rivers nearby. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

She deftly removed the bones, then cut the fish into bite-sized pieces. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

By 11 o'clock, relatives had arrived and had started frying fish and other food to sell. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

For dinner she had two small fish and another pinch of chili powder. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Uncle fished into his pocket and pulled out a handful of coins. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But not tonight and not tomorrow. Rig now to get some sleep, old man, while the fish is calm and steady.” The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The enamel bowls contained flaky fufu and watery soup bereft of chunks of fish or meat. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

He tugged at the skin of his neck and then fished out a damp roll of bills and peeled off several. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

If I bring ’em out three at a time I can be fishing all two hundred traps in a couple of weeks. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Caves across the ocean in caves of dark hills white skin people like the belly of a fish covered with hair. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

He could jump into the stream of blues like a fish since he was already in the musical swim of things. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

He went to his sister’s fish store on Ludlow Street and persuaded her to give him a consignment of herring on credit. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Instead, she recalled the story of Arjuna and the fish’s eye. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Every other classroom in Camillo Junior High had fish or hamsters or gerbils or mice. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Fangburn struggled like a landed fish as the big badger picked up the net and swung it several times against the gatehouse wall. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

I was sad to see Ethan the fish go, but meeting his namesake had been the perfect send-off. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“And how you plan on getting rich, Mr. Trump? You think you could catch that many fish?” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

So he started on the second little fish of the day. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“And the blood on the fishing gaff that Sheriff Moran brought you, the one he found while searching the defendant’s boat—the one you held in your hands a moment ago—was B positive, doctor?” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Our compound is crawling with fish, all right. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Oh, says the librarian, he reads hundreds of books about English officers fishing in Ireland. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

"It's tougher for the fish, the winter and all, than it is for the ducks, for Chrissake. Use your head, for Chrissake." The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Mr. Alsole, my landlord, has emerged from his apartment and is stalking toward me, his frown resembling a fish’s, his thin orange hair sticking out in every direction. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He wore a battered cap decorated with fishing lures. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Kitchykitchykitchykoo” John said, tapping his finger on the side of an aquarium that had two piranha flesh-eating fish in it. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

During those days of waiting, he did not make his bed, or sweep, or shake out the little rag-braid rug, and almost forgot to slash with his fish knife the passing day on his calendar. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I told him, “No, sir, a tenth of these fish is one.” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

First there were Indians, an inferior breed without energy, inventiveness, or culture, a people that lived on grubs and grasshoppers and shellfish, too lazy to hunt or fish. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

There were no flowers, no fish or stars. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

If he buys the fish he’ll pack it in ice and send it overnight by air to Japan, for auction at the Tokyo fish market tomorrow. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“But remember how you went eighty-seven days without fish and then we caught big ones every day for three weeks.” The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

She fished in the pocket of her apron and fetched out a tissue-paper packet. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

I tried to smile, but I had swabbed on so much anesthetic my lips were frozen in place like fish in a frozen pond. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Tables groaned under joints of venison and pork, smoked fish, and meat pies. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

After I washed up I went out on the stoop to tell Ma and Pa I was gonna take Mr. Leroy his fish. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Was he a fish, laughing at her from under the water? The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

He was going to set his big fish traps later in the week, and if the catch was good, he would let her bring us some fish. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes when there’s been no moon or the sky has been cloudy, I have fished at the pond. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to go check the fishing lines.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Digger, and I used to fish—and a single, bright spot of yellow. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

He's never watched our mother barter over fish and spices in Indian grocery stores. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Granny’s customers often had to spend half an hour unsnarling the rust-red yarn from the mud-brown, or trying to fish out the end of a thread from a tangled wad. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I fished the Polaroid from the pocket of my shirt. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Mama had made a good stew, filled with flaky chunks of fish, and the kettle bubbled hot, hung above the hearth fire. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

They served not only as shields, but as cutting boards for fish and as bowls for mixing food. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

This time I feel sorry for the fish. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

First, she took off Salvador’s jacket and tied it around her hips; then she fished out the baseball cap she had left in the pocket. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

It struck the surface with its talons and rose back into the sky, carrying a large struggling fish. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

And when they looked down, they saw hundreds of fish looking back up. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Kepler described comets as darting through space “as the fishes in the sea,” but being dissipated by sunlight, as the cometary tail always points away from the sun. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

If there was a rock, Nathan could trick the fish into swimming into it. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Using these to cook in, I saved the juices of the fish which are good and were wasted before. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were no willows or sweet-smelling cassia trees, no garden pavilions, no benches sitting by a pond, no tubs of fish. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thirty miles to where the big fish live. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

The outer was red sandstone, thirty feet high and decorated with animals: snakes slithering, kites flying, fish swimming, intermingled with wolves of the red waste and striped zorses and monstrous elephants. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She spied another pair of gold cloaks, walking side by side through the fish market, but they never so much as looked at her. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

After a while they would have shared jokes, probably things about fish, phrases that would make them chuckle. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Merely because of the presence of the willows and the beavers that depended on them, the region was an attractive recreational area with excellent fishing and hunting. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

People, and cockroaches and fish and creatures Gregor had no name for fought and feasted and danced on every conceivable inch of space. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

"Because if you want a fire to cook fish or crab, you can jolly well go up the mountain. That way we'll be certain." Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

On winter days, picking fish from his net, he wore a wool cap knitted by his wife and an infantryman’s battered field jacket. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, hauling net, he came across a fish thrashing hard enough to elicit a cracking thump when it banged off the Islander’s transom. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

He fishes in his soup for the last won ton dumpling. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“I—I did not come here to fish,” muttered the boy, immediately nervous again. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Dinners were always noisy, and they were always abundant with great pots of boiled rice, platters of home-grown vegetables, fish Papa caught. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the only fishing gear the Pilgrims brought was useless in New England. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“I shouldn’t have gone out so far, fish,” he said. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You could even stay at the house, do a little tarpon fishing with me and your cousins on the weekends.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Is someone fishing in the lake at night? Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The biggest I ever saw in my whole life,” Mancuso said, stretching his arms as if he were describing a fishing catch. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The biscuits and the fishing gear assured us of the solid part of our diet. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“They who? I thought . . . My father said he buried him. Down by a creek or a river someplace where they used to fish.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

I moved slowly up the walk, watching as she fished two shot glasses from her pocket. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

On moonless nights the men and boys of Jableh, a dusty fishing town on the coast of Syria, would gather their lanterns and set out in their quietest boats. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Stone-dead she dropped into the sloshing bilge the way a tern plummets; and the sailors heaved her over as tender pickings for the seals and fish. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pesticide threat to fishes may be divided into three parts. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Gramps fishes and he smokes his own salmon and oysters, and we would’ve probably eaten that with Gran’s homemade thick brown beer bread. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe big fish will come to eat the small ones,” he said. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

"See, what did I tell you, a kettle of fish." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Garrett’s friend Jason has a huge fish tank! I’ll bet he went to his house to ask for water from it!” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The net lifted him higher and higher until there was an almost unbearable explosion of light and Edward was back in the world, lying on the deck of a ship, surrounded by fish. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

“He died last night in a fishing accident. We found him this morning tangled in his net out in White Sand Bay.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I probably should have taken off, but 1 was really enjoying myself, fishing under that bridge. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

I fished in my pocket for a biscuit, and he snuffled it out of my hand in one chomping gulp. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Outside the fort is plenty of food: fish, oysters, rabbits, berries. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

The old man could see the slight bulge in the water that the big dolphin raised as they followed the escaping fish. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Several of the people I met weren't actually related but had been at the fish fry on the day of the crime. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Fine, and listen, precious, try and ask by the fish market who that old man is.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He really did not know how to fish. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Johnny threw himself flat on the dock, reached in and fished her out. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The water’s very clear, and schools of bright-hued fish and strange sea flowers decorate the sand floor. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

My only other avenue to the golden carp would be Cico, so every day I fished along the river, and watched and waited. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s something of a whiz with snares, rigging them to bent saplings so they pull the kill out of the reach of predators, balancing logs on delicate stick triggers, weaving inescapable baskets to capture fish. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Already the day’s bustle had begun up and down the wharf: A man was crying fish. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I gave him his box of mementos and watched as he fingered each one: the Wiggle King fishing lure, the silver dollar, the cork, little Eva’s nesting doll, and the skeleton key. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Sweet rice cakes with gooey walnut paste next to stalls of fish cake and raw seafood. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“It’s brand-new. They call it a Wiggle King. So colorful it’ll catch a blind fish. Anyway, I doubt that concoction is worth the fish and the lure.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Then you grab the keg and pull, and on the end of the rope is a big fish. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

He turned and fished out another eel for himself and slashed it open. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

She snipped a fish hook, slipped the hook in the hole, twist, twist, twist, then tossed it in the “finished” can. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The fluid in the syringe is silver-gray, like fish scales, and as it flows into me through the needle, I imagine the microscopic technology chewing through my body, reading me and analyzing me. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The goldfish man’s cart was full of bowls of flashing fish that glittered like jewels. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Chiron fished a golden drachma out of his pouch, tossed it through the mist, and muttered, “O Iris, Goddess of the Rainbow, show us the threat.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Wash fished two dimes out of his pocket and handed them to the twins. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The rest of the morning went like that R.C. guzzling beer and pulling in fish. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

The little sandy-haired woman had turned bright pink, and her mouth was opening and shutting like that of a landed fish. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Mom really loved it when we were doing things together—she and Abbey fixing the salad and potatoes, Dad and me cleaning the fish. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Everyone wore coats and hats and scarves, but all had taken off their gloves, the better to feel the fish. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

But as I scrambled to my feet, the fishing pole got wedged somehow between the rail and crosstie. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Oxtail soup, she made him, steamed fish with scallions. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This one had fish for supper. Mushrooms, grain, and just a bit of leaf. Now that’s flavorful, you must admit, Shed.” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Old Man of the Moon? ” the fish said. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

The boys in our group had something that looked like a fishing net, and they would put the net on the ground and then sprinkle it with broken corn to attract birds. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“When I was a little girl, I lived by a stream. I used to catch my own fish.” A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

They fished up the book, dripping wet, scanned it, and bowed to Nat. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Just why do you think,” he resumed when he had finished, looking up, “that you made those two statements expressing contradictory emotional responses to the fish?” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Her eyes were fully adjusted to the darkness now, and it took only seconds to find the fishing line tied to its usual rock. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Finally one of the fish worked its way out of the sodden newspaper and fell on the floor where it lay slimily in the dust. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The canoes are filled with bread, fish, and meat: turkey, squirrel, deer, and raccoon. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

“Neither for you nor for me. I’m sorry, fish.” The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He tells me he knows how to cook all kinds of fish all kinds of different ways. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

Once I’m out on the creek I stop worrying about Mr. Woodwell and start thinking about the giant fish. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

He rubbed off some dirt, and the outline of the fish became clearer. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t only that the fish ran in silvery billions and money ran almost as freely. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I cut me a pole and was soon perched on a stump, fishing and eating fried chicken. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

After we finished staring at the big orange-and-white fish swimming around in a giant tank in the waiting area, we found out Coach had our seats prearranged. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know. That day R.C. and I went fishing, we met Emmett Till and some of his friends at the riven R.C. did something terrible to him.” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

I saw her scrape off the fish scales, which flew in the air like shards of glass. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The day was miserably hot and muggy, full of flies, mosquitoes, and the bad smells of soapmaking, the outhouses, fish someone had caught, unwashed bodies. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

He licked the red pulp from his fingers and finished divvying up the fish. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The setting of the sun is a difficult time for all fish. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s hard to fish from the shore of this lake. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“And you and me’s going to fry up a couple pecks of potatoes to go with the fish. There won’t be nothing to it. I peeled the potatoes this morning before you two was up.” A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Soon after that fishing trip, at the age of seventy-one, Gey learned he had the disease he’d spent his entire life trying to fight. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Amari took the sharp stone and cut each fish open from tip to tail. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

He saw it quiver and then jerk a little, as though an invisible fish were tugging at a line. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He had not seen Ramon since the day recently when he had suggested a fishing expedition and been told that Ramon was not well. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

The little fish rose to the surface to feed. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was not the right kind of fish, not a food fish. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Deydey came in with a fish so tiny and poor-looking that, in spite of their hunger, everyone laughed out loud when he lifted it proudly into the air. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

They knew the Dinka could survive because they could catch fish as the swamps filled with water. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Michael who is only five and won’t understand anything till he’s eleven like me wants to know if we’re having fish and chips tonight because he’s hungry. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I remembered that the letter mentioned the silver dollar, fishing lure, and skeleton key. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

I lit a fire, ate smoked fish and dried apples, and went out again. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Merrill Bobbs, the man who sold fishing bait by the river, had somehow rolled a huge barrel of drinking water all the way from his house and was struggling to right it. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Peach and I were face-to-face like two slices of bread, with Dismay between us like the tuna fish in a sandwich. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

As Minli stared into his bowls with her shining black eyes, a brilliant orange fish stared back at her with its shining black eyes. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Toomer had taught that all fish, the greatest and smallest, listened to the testimony of the tide in their every nerve ending, in every bone, and in every cell. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pulled out the greaseproof bag, and then fished down for the submarine. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

The clerks averted their eyes as Mom fished the sock out of her bra, explaining to everyone within earshot that this was her way of making sure she was never pickpocketed. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I would slide out onto it and break a little hole and ice fish. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

They never entered the water themselves, and only fished from the bank, taking care to keep their feet and wheels dry. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

As I gazed at the dead fish, the image of the goldfish flashed in my mind. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

In the girl’s arms, there was a large bowl with a smiling fish in it. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Mr. Klein did not sell rods and reels, and mine was in the house, but I could fish well enough without one. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

I had fish marinating for dinner, with a salad and bread left over from the night before, so there was nothing to do there. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

I held the fish still while Grandpa Bobby unhooked it. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

He knew what a huge fish this was and he thought of him moving away in the darkness with the tuna held crosswise in his mouth. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pushed himself up from among his fishing rods. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

So snug and warm was it, that he was loath to leave it when François distributed the fish which he had first thawed over the fire. The Call of the Wild 1903-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the fish stew boiled away, Anya opened the special cupboard in the kitchen, where she had gotten the challah’s white cloth. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Mother was down on her hands and knees mopping up the water and Margot was fishing my papers off the floor. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

The boat captain has a big ice chest open and he’s letting folks admire his fish. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

I fished it out with a spoon and then downed the acid drink, proud to have resisted the pork chops and grits. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the conductor came around to collect the fares, Stuart fished in his purse and pulled out a coin no bigger than the eye of a grasshopper. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

They had spent most of it out on the ice, shivering beside a pair of holes they’d cut in the smaller of the frozen lakes, with fishing lines clutched in mitten-clumsy hands. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Once every fortnight there might be a fish, but not today. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Water. Real water. And I saw a fish right there.” The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

School ends, and children have time to play and to fish for trouts in the brook. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

“This is all very hard to believe,” she muttered as we hurried down the path toward the fish pier. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

The fish was coming in on his circle now calm and beautiful looking and only his great tail moving. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The lower tables were crowded with knights, archers, and sellsword captains, tearing apart loaves of black bread to soak in their fish stew. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

And then we discovered the best ‘ ‘fishing’ ’ audience of all, by far the best- conditioned audience for Mr. Muhammad’s teachings: the Christian churches. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He thought of birds that swim and fish that fly. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

“All we come for was a fish or two, swear!” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

We fished out a pink plastic, octagonal container that was part of a pet shop play set, and we placed the two blue eggs inside. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Bernabe fished for a handkerchief in his pocket and blew his nose. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They were on their way to lure the Nightbeast to town as well. Just check their satchels—they are filled with jelly bean fish!” Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

When we reached the dock, the man who had fished me out of the water lifted me out of the boat with his fishy-smelling hands. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even now that the fish hung still and straight, they gleamed in the late afternoon light. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“They close the wall at night,” the fish said, “so if you are in the city at night, you have to stay until morning.” Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

On the road, they had to give up having tank cars of live fish shipped to them, because it was so hard to get deliveries on time. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

And the fish, don’t even mention the fish! Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Zeitoun, exhausted, would rest against the bow, watching the fish slowly cease their struggles. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The more I pressed, the more the fish struggled. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I am going to put these in a very tasty stew with fish and green bananas,” she announced. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

They would use a fishing boat Jones had arranged for his servant to leave by the river. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked like he was choking on a fish bone. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Other times a fish will give up and die right away, if the barb got buried deep enough. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

A fish jumping out of water was confronted by a famished boy with a hands-on, no-holds- barred approach to capturing it. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

She fished around in some hidden desk drawer and then handed Sierra a laminated card with a pin on the back. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

There’s a creature a layin’ down there, but I’m blowed if it’s fish or fowl, there’s so much mud and dust plastered on it,” whispered the hedgehog. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

One was titled Oceans of the World, and the other had brightly colored fish on the cover. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

“I don’t think we brought my fishing pole.” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

He had no trouble now shooting them and had even speared one with his old fish spear now that he knew to aim low. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

She dropped the fish on a newspaper smudged with slimy, gray juice and sliced off its head. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

“If you were the stone fish,” she said, still thinking hard, “that means you were also the statue for the magistrate that broke...” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

It has more nourishment than almost any fish, he thought. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Do you think there could be fish in the lake? The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

They hunt, swim, fish, browse, frolic, mate, play, run from predators. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s almost always good fishing when the mist comes on the creek. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“You don’t want to talk about Lego tuna fish instead?” We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

He is a great fish and I must convince him, he thought. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The little fish swam into the wide end and slipped through to the pool. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some people in town would even buy the carp for a nickel and eat the fish! Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before the men prepared to head to shore, the captain of the U-boat said, "You bring the bodies back and we'll feed them to the fish when we get out to sea again." Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

They would touch my hair When I showed Them my library: The fish making jeta, The globe that I dropped, The birds fluttering Their wings at the window. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

They would sometimes wake to find a haunch of venison just inside the door, or bear meat, a fish or two. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

The food fish stayed close in, in the shallows, and did not roll that way but made quicker movements, small movements, food movements. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

The survey showed more than the loss of young fish; it revealed a serious change in the streams themselves. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Small fish flickered past him like silver darts. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I stopped as soon as I caught a fish. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

A dorado surged forth and lunged for the fish head. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

There are many types of birds, fish in the water, and sometimes a whole family of otters. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Slogging up and down the riverbank in trousers wet to the knees, his Bible in one hand and another stickful of fire-blackened fish in the other, he waved his bounty in a threatening manner. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You might have been born the biggest fish in the sea, but the skill and perseverance of those lower born can take you down and destroy you.” Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

We had a picnic down on the bank of the Kwilu, which has the delightful odor of mud and dead fish. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He learned how to saute a fish so that it looked like a work of art. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

He was still a fish out of water, but he didn’t seem to be quite so thrown by every little thing as he had been when I’d first brought him home. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

“I was fishing with my daddy, and I wandered off and...” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I want to shout out to the fish, ask it where my boat is, but my throat hurts too much. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Late that night we were still at work, cleaning the fish, hulling the rice, separating the grain from the husk. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

“In the fish house,” the bear told her, and turned to pad down toward the jetty. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

The first five nights I made my favorite dinner: ramen noodles with fish cakes and green onion. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

All night long, the box in the attic called to me, as if an invisible fishing line connected my fingertips to its cardboard edge. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

To give away his fishing pole, his skinning knife—every piece of his gear but one, and borrow a suitcase for their things. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t help himself— scoping out the tides, the depth, the wind direction, all the things that were important if you were hunting fish. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Then he began to pity the great fish that he had hooked. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Everyday I go fishing and pick palm fruits for Ma. She is in the hospital. I bring food for her and stay with her through the night. She is getting better.” First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kira could see pale green sea, and in its depths fish of all kinds, some larger than men, larger than ten men together. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I brought some fish, mostly good-sized walleye, back to camp, I was the only one to bring in any fish, but they spun it differently. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Can we use the jelly bean fish in some other way?” asked Seven. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, they built a fire and roasted Dicey’s fish over it. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

He has fished out a piece of shell and tosses it to me. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of Geisbert’s greatest happinesses in life, apart from his work, came from being in the outdoors, fishing for black bass and hunting for deer. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The waves were so high the next day that I could not fish on the reef even at low tide, and since I had nothing to give him I did not go to the pool. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Deydey’s triumph resulted in a small square of salt pork, a bit of flour, some dried apples, and a bladder of fish oil. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

But they could only aim by looking at the reflection of the wooden fish in the water below them. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The line went out and out and out but it was slowing now and he was making the fish earn each inch of it. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I been dreaming how me and Lally find a fish down by the sea. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I should get the hell out of here. I’ve got a lunch date,” he said, and immediately stooped to make a leisurely and proprietary examination of the interior of the fish tank. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

One would think they would be hurt by their furious impact with the sea, but, no, they almost always came up with a fish in their beak. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

I watch him, picking at the fish with my hands, pulling at the tiny little bones. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

I had assumed that the Pacific, but for passing schools of fish, was a sparsely inhabited waste of water. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

I never thought that I would be able to tell him from the others, but I was so sure it was Mon-a-nee that I held up one of the fish I had caught. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom, Abbey, and I pushed together to slide the bone- fish skiff off the trailer, since Dad’s hands were still tender from the fractured bones. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

The boy took the fish, and for the next hour the three of us sat around the kitchen table eating pickled herring and crackers and sugar cookies and milk. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

There we went on board a small coastal steamer, and Nanny was heard to say, ‘I’m sure it leaks! We shall all be food for the fishes before the day is out!’ Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

As a token of good luck there were three fine fish in the net. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

"We bring you gifts of fish and frog and fowl," he said. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He declined the lifetime pension offered him after the war and until old age he made his living from the little gold fishes that he manufactured in his workshop in Macondo. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

It was basically a closet full of cat, dog, hamster, and fish food, leashes, flea powders, and a few toys like bones and rubber fire hydrants that make squeaky noises. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

I was busy keeping the flames low so they would not leap up and burn the fish. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d wait an hour more, then pick and run if he came up short on fish. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

He high-stepped through the pluff mud, the hem of his pants rolled up to his knees, fishing for treasures. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I can feel the weight of the fish behind the skiff. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

The fish stared back at him calmly, as if waiting. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Furthest away in the sky were lots of little white clouds which looked like fish scales or sand dunes which had a very regular pattern. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

On it was a plate containing two bread loaves, half an onion, and the scanty remnants of a salted fish, the leavings from Gebu’s breakfast. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

“That was back before they dropped fish traps all over the reefs. Back before certain creeps started dumping their crapola in the sea.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

The only time he’d change his course was when Mom dropped a few grains of fish food into his bowl each morning and evening. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

From the kitchen my mother brought forth the succession of dishes: lentils with fried onions, green beans with coconut, fish cooked with raisins in a yogurt sauce. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

He made the fish fast to bow and stern and to the middle thwart. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

She peered out and caught sight of Ess down by the water, holding a fat fish. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Harry, who was measuring out powdered spine of lion- fish, ignored them. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

She was standing by the counter, already breaking up some dried fish, extracting the needlelike bones. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

All there was to do on those islands was drill and swim, play cards and eat fish, complain and sleep. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Colonel Julyan waded through the whole set lunch, starting with soup and fish, and going on to roast beef and Yorkshire pudding. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

One fishes in the river or cuts grass with a machete, like a fieldworker, and whisdes to the others to set a trap. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

I hang up and fish under my bed for a piece of blue poster board. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Now they were off fishing, playing ball, indulging in all the usual summer pastimes during this brief holiday from school. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I said as I fingered the smooth leaves interspersed with bird and fish shapes on her necklace. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

You fished out the necklace we hadn’t yet sold and let it dangle from your fingers. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“I remember you loved eating fish and veggies on the porch of your tia Darma’s farm. It was the cutest thing.” Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

It was three days before I could catch fish and when I went there again the pool was deserted. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

He fished three cents out of his pocket; he went over to the boy with averted face. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I loaded all my fishing tools up, threw the stringer of fish over Old Flap’s rump, and started riding back to the stable. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Suddenly the water felt cold to her, and the little fish prickling at her skin an-noying. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

We fished, we swam a little, and I told him I hoped to make a raft pretty soon, so I could float into deeper water and perhaps catch bigger fish. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

The last one to leave was the woman with the fish tail. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Yet, Mom, Dad, and Trey eat raw fish. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I tell myself I'm free, I'm outside where I dreamed of going, but I feel like a fish in a net being lifted out of the water I've lived in all my life. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

He had hanged himself with a fishing net. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

“Well” — the dragon looked down at the fish with a wry smile — “either one of us would be a very strange relative to you, Fish. Why did you think I was your aunt? ” Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

The little fish darted this way and that in streaks of silver. Terrible Things: An Allegory of the Holocaust 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

And sleep, such sleep...deep and sweet and sound as I had not known for many nights; it claimed me even as I sat amid the rice husks and fish scales and drying salt. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She was eating fish,” one of the daughters explained. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

While James sat aside, silent, they roasted the fish as they had the hotdogs and peeled off the hot meat with their fingers. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I molded my fufu into small balls with my fingers, dipped it in the soup, making sure to scoop up fish chunks, and then brought it to my mouth. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

He watched his lines to see them go straight down out of sight into the water and he was happy to see so much plankton because it meant fish. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

She says, I know what he likes in the fishing department, and chooses a book called In Search of the Irish Salmon by Brigadier General Hugh Colton. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Finnick weaves yet another water basket and a net for fishing. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

There were fish— big fish with protruding foreheads and very long dorsal fins, dorados they are called, and smaller fish, lean and long, unknown to me, and smaller ones still—and there were sharks. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Our Father forgot, for fishing in the style of modern redneck Georgia you need your ice. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Coho salmon has a three-year life cycle and the runs are composed almost entirely of fish of a single age group. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Those fish bits still contained energy, and energy was life. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

A bunch of the other fishing guides had written to the Coast Guard, saying Dad ought to be given one more chance with his captain’s license. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

They had contests to see who could catch the most fish in ten minutes, and the younger lawyer won with an average of 2.1 fish a minute. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The lobby was like an empty fish tank—glass walls, a glossy black floor, a few token plants, and pretty much nothing else. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Would he be hiding out near one of my fishing holes, waiting to ambush me? Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

I would hold open the hem and pray an unusually stupid fish would swim into the trap. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

On its maiden launch, complete with fishing gear and a generator they could scarcely afford, the Lady Gin, with the Warden at the helm, steamed out into the Gulf of Mexico. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

She prepared fish and soup every night; meat or pork every other; at least four kinds of namool, prepared vegetables, and then always something fried. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Emma shone her flame around as we walked among the troughs, trying to guess which might hold more than just the corpses of fish—but they all looked the same, just lidless coffins of ice. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

“Sure, that would be great. We can go fishing,” I teased. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Several times a day, the guerrillas would stop to rest, and dip into a dirty cloth bag holding cooked rice mixed with some kind of fish or meat. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Gale and I divide our spoils, leaving two fish, a couple of loaves of good bread, greens, a quart of strawberries, salt, paraffin, and a bit of money for each. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

And folks were depending on me to bring ’em some fish. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Even with fishing, I had a big garden that I worked on, grew my own vegetables. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The lakes, rivers, Inland Sea, Sea of Japan to the west, and Pacific Ocean to the east teem with fish such as salmon, trout, tuna, sardines, mackerel, herring, and cod. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I put down my coffee and fished in my jacket pocket and found a quarter and some pennies. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Eight dollars a pound for skinny fish. Eighteen for nice fat fish.” The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

One of our sloth bears became seriously ill with severe hem­orrhagic enteritis after being given fish that had gone putrid by a man who was convinced he was doing a good deed. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Turns out I found the fish all right, but it don’t matter because I’m not big enough or strong enough to hit one with the harpoon. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

He chewed his lip with gusto, like it was a strip of dried fish. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

At the airstrip, the wind whipping his hair across his forehead, Henry fishes inside his jacket for something. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“No water, no shade, no food, not even a fishing rod so we can catch something to eat.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

The same tall trees, the same brightly colored flowers, the same tropical fish tank right by the doors, where Poe and I got in trouble with Barb for throwing donut crumbs to the fish. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

“Stories about Yesu. From the Bible. Once, Yesu had just five loaves of bread and two fishes, and he turned it into enough food to feed a whole crowd.” The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“Charlotte’s cousin won. She wrapped the fish up, then she ate him when she got good and ready. Spiders have to eat, the same as the rest of us.” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

Thus, Park Service biologists managed the wonderfully unusual accomplishment of discovering and eradicating in the same instant a new species of fish. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

But Deborah waved her hand in my face, shushing me like I was talking nonsense, then fished a videocassette from the pile and held it up for me to see. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Then he fished a raisin out of his mouth and added it to the pile on the seat. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

He had planned to bring back from the town that morning pork, a small pond fish, and a handful of chestnuts. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

“Your home is as quiet as a fish tank.” Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

Those left behind had the task of going on with life even as the harshest snow fell, the bitter cold deepened, the game hid, and the fish sank deeper into the lake. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

“I do,” he replied, “but not until after the police have left. I’ll fish for a while. You go on. But here,” he said. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

She smelled strongly of fried fish and sesame oil and garlic. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I could never be a fish,” I say. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Crisscrossing the savanna are networks of earthen fish weirs: interconnected low berms that change direction, zigzag-style, every thirty to a hundred feet. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“There’s not enough fish left anywhere else, that’s for sure. Not since the cyclone hit. When Baba takes his boat into the reserve, he comes back with plenty. And honey, too.” Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

When she didn’t, he finally reached down in disgust and fished her up. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

So he’d been getting paid with salt and then “buying” fish with this. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

R.C. tried to show me how to tell if a fish was nibbling at my bait, but I never caught on. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Sitting and wishing never made man great. The good Lord sends the fishing, but we gotta dig the bait. I say we’ve got to force the hand of those administrators. They’re ignoring you.” Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fisherman sits beside a small pile of fish, steering the boat. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The police won’t let you fish from the top of the bridge because of the traffic, but you can go down underneath and cast from the sandbags, in the shade. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

They sat in the rocking boat tied to the rotting wharf, looked down into the slimy green water that smelled of decaying fish, and ate. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The doctor stuck a crooked- looking scissors inside my wound and fished for the bullet. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Ramen noodles, beef jerky, dried shrimp, butter biscuits, tamarind pods, canned fish, and drums and drums of real water. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Dead fish and gooey vegetable matter were exposed and rotted, while swarms of insects droned in the heavy, humid air. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

And in this section of the river, with the exception of the vicious saw-toothed piranhas, fish were few and far between. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

Tell the old man I’m headed out to the tuna fishing grounds and he’ll rope me to a chair and call my dad, or worse. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

The city rulers encouraged and rewarded the workforce during construction and maintenance of the mound by staging celebratory roasts of fish and achira root right on the worksite. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Colonel Lloyd’s slaves were in the habit of spending a part of their nights and Sundays in fishing for oysters, and in this way made up the deficiency of their scanty allowance. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 1845-05-01T00:00:00Z

I put my fishing spear and nets in the canoe. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Slant of light catching a big fish ten or fifteen feet below the surface, streaking like a torpedo, so fast that the eye can’t hardly keep up. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Nathan told me of it with cheer in his voice and I told the children, pleasurably, for the fields were full of fish that would feed us for many a day. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

But to me the hard cartilage is like eating the bones of a fish. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Uncle shared his food with Salva—a piece of sugar cane to suck on right away, then fish that they cooked over a fire and yams roasted in the ashes. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Under the savage stare of the pencil woman, the girl’s face went pasty pale, like the underbelly of a dead fish. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

The quickening, Madeline had called it, as she laid her hands on Mia’s skin—such an old-fashioned euphemism, one that made her think of quicksilver, a lithe little fish whipping about within her. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I stick my face into the stream and drink icy water that’s better than the lemonade in any fish and chip shop. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

He felt prepared for the military: He’d spent a lot of time as a teenager hunting and fishing in the woods, and competing in rifle competitions near his home in rural Maryland. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Eating lunch in the cafeteria, Kyle stared at his wilted fish sticks, wishing he could pull a magic Take Another Turn card out of thin air. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

She had one fish trap still full of kudu meat, and a few yams and tomatoes. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The reporter asked Sookie if he had ever seen a great white in all of his years of fishing off the Massachusetts coast, and Sookie said, “Nope. Only in the movies.” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

“He dreams he’s holding a live fish in his hand.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

But he had carried his fish spear, the original one with the two prongs, and he moved the bow to his left hand and carried the spear in his right. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time I had rinsed myself of blood, cleaned up my fishing gear, put things away and had my supper, night had come on. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

And Norwegians, by the way, always eat the skin of the boiled fish, which they say has the best taste of all. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Okay, we’re in a body. Most likely—given the fish breath—it’s some kind of giant demonic whale. So. Let’s think about anatomy and stuff.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

True it was piled high with fish meal and the smell of it was delicate and penetrating. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Try dis!” she’d shouted at me, going full throttle with the accent, exuberantly handing me pieces of grilled fish to taste, handing me fried yams, stalks of sugarcane, and cut-up pieces of mango. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Shoals of tiny fish darted away from his hands. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I clutched the rail and stared into the green waves, contemplating the fish who might soon be enjoying my breakfast, while my father stood shivering beside me in shirtsleeves. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

The way it had me mashed up ’gainst it I could feel its heart flopping ’round in its chest like a fish that had got throwed up on the land. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

She had a point, too—nobody we knew ever got rich in the fishing business. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Bits of metal, fish arrowheads or lures, maybe. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kochu Maria, in a bad mood for no particular reason, was in the kitchen standing on her low stool savagely cleaning a large fish, working up a smelly blizzard of fish scales. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ship Channel, he’d understood, had been fished hard and happily on two consecutive evenings. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

He fished out more snozzcumbers from the sack and threw them down. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was furnished with picnic tables and had taxidermied fish on the walls. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“I have. Would you like a piece of this fish, too? And a fig? I have more than I want.” The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

“Where are you? Where are you?” the angler fish said. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

I aimed at the giant’s head, but though it was larger than my two fishes and a good target, I missed. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

A human noisemaker flooding the woods with laughter and scaring away all fish within a quarter of a mile. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

My dad had read The Old Man and the Sea to me because it was a fishing story. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

And every Saturday we’d get a case of beer and fry up some fish. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was like fishing; you had to be suitable, as Eric would have said. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Tonight’s rui fish was spiced with black pepper and turmeric, and Ma had made her tasty cauliflower and potato curry. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

Each of my peanut-brown babies I called my nzolani, and said it with the taste of fish and fire and new potatoes in my mouth. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Young otters collected watercress and fished; Cornflower headed a party of mice to reap the early cereal crops; more youngsters tended the salad gardens. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“She’s fine. Nobody’s ever gotten hurt that badly cleaning a fish. Have they?” Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

"Well, don't bother copying that one. Twenty-three barrels of pickled cod, eighteen jars of fish oil, a cask of salt ..." "An inventory," Sam said, "or perhaps a bill of sale." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

How the meals arrived on tiny trays—some kind of fish that none of us ate. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

And sure enough, I turned around and a sullen woman was now squatting in front of the bucket of fish. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

My sister made a dive at me, and fished me up by the hair, saying nothing more than the awful words, “You come along and be dosed.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

She knew what she wanted to say, but it caught in the back of her throat like a fish bone. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

They are linked so intimately and indispensably with the lives of many fishes, mollusks, and crustaceans that were they no longer habitable these seafoods would disappear from our tables. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“Got anything else other than fish?” wed always say. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

If he was floating atop water shared with the lake, surely fish had been swept into the city. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Opening his briefcase, Rick fished out his test gear. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

I used the catacomb fish symbol *=> to mark the days. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The old man never taught his son how to fish. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

This drink bites the inside of my mouth and throat like swallowing tiny fish bones. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Now that it was getting colder, the boats were no longer going out regularly, and sometimes there was no whole fish available for weeks at a time. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Cooks dropped fish heads into woks of hissing oil, and urchins threaded their way underfoot searching for unguarded valuables. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

This was a fish built to feed on all the fishes in the sea, that were so fast and strong and well armed that they had no other enemy. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

His horses' eyes were never dotted, his fish's scales were incomplete, and his figures were missing a shoe. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

“You can fish at the mill if you want to.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought: after I get the cress and the other greens I will cook breakfast and then go fishing. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

“I think that such a net as this would be best used to trap fish,” said Kvasir. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Johnny sat upright, the fish in his lap, trying not to think of the holes in his exposed undershirt. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I remember at first I would pull fish after fish from the river. But you know what, Leader?” Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

He was supposed to be minding the fishing nets, but he had found a fine piece of bamboo and was using it to draw pictures with water on the inside of the boat. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

I listened to the water murmur and watched the little gray fish play with each other. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The beaches are clean where once they festered with fish guts and flies. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I sat in the boat waiting for the fish to bite, I put them slowly, one by one, into my mouth. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

She seems to want to stay and watch me taste it but she hurries back to her work in the open kitchen preparing the bahn-chahn, the savory half dishes of vegetables and fish. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He left me standing at the counter and went to pose with a giant fish in his hand. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the top of the stairs was this plain old bathroom with a shower curtain that had all kinds of fish designs on it. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Viju’s father went back to fishing and would hunt honey when it came in season, and Viju came back sheepishly for the last few weeks of school. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

Living in the tank were not fish but a large, green snapping turtle that took up almost half the sixty-five-gallon tank. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

I fished Maria out of the mud and gave her a bottle of peanut butter to lick—the bottle was empty; it had been empty since a month ago. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Half a kilometer downstream, some fishing boats were puttering along. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Two ancient lamps burned fish oil, throwing dim shadows against the dark stone walls. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

They dam a river and leave the fish to die. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

He fished around in his bag for his schoolbooks. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

By 8:13 both men had twelve fish, their daily bag. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are ways to solve this problem — to preserve the forests and to save the fishes, too. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“It doesn’t seem likely that a fish that small could swim up a waterfall,” Dragon said. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

The goddess fished something from the pocket of her shirt—an old-fashioned subway token—and pressed it into Annabeth’s hand. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

So I got to head out tonight and be there when the sun comes up, ready to strike the first big fish that rises. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“In the supermarket I can feed a cat thirty-two dinners from one of thirty-two tins, but I can never find a single fish I like, never a single.” Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

“If you are not Aunt Jin,” the fish said to the dragon, interrupting Minli’s thoughts, “why are you swimming across the river? Why don’t you just fly?” Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

She looked over at the fish and then looked at Ba, her eyes wide. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Despite my protests about the risks involved in sitting together on a balcony in a crowded section of Johannesburg, Helmut insisted we have our lunch of tuna fish sandwiches and tossed salad there. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

In their beneficence they allowed a certain amount of amateur smuggling to go on—the day trips to Canada, the fishing boats out for a midnight cruise. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

At a restaurant at the lake’s edge, we eat our fill of fried fish and share a giant bottle of Coca-Cola, which the Doctorita never lets us have for fear of cavities. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I get to thinking what it will mean if I can get the fish to shore and sell it to Mr. Nagahachi. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Better weather for me than for you, fish.” The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That way I might could play baseball every year or two with Pink and them, or go fishing sometime.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“He was heading inland with a caravan of fish.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Even a condemned man gets a last meal. I’d say that fish deserves nothing less.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

We had many happy times that summer, fishing and going to Tall Rock in our canoe, but more and more now I thought of Tutok and my sister Ulape. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

For more than a week, I knew he had been laboring over nails to turn them into fish hooks. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

"What did the frogs and the fish do to them?" Terrible Things: An Allegory of the Holocaust 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though Ma had heard nothing, Ba remembered the fish’s words about the fear in the wind. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

I keep my bow loaded, both for Cato and any fish I might see, but the stream seems strangely empty of creatures. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The smell coming off it was like a garbage can full of fish sticks that had been sitting in the sun all week. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Of course, I’d kicked up enough tantrums to end the fishing trips by the time I was eleven. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Thinking fast, Palmer told them the refrigerator had broken, roaches had infested the kitchen, and they had nothing in the house but tuna fish and water. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

The guy at the fish counter is tossing words back and forth with a woman, about what’s fresh and what’s a good deal today. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

“I mean, we could go fishing instead, if you wanted.” The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

One turned and went out of sight under the skiff and the old man could feel the skiff shake as he jerked and pulled on the fish. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

A large orange fish came to nose her fingers inquisitively. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

It was a good plan, but when I tried to actually get my arm out of the mummy bag, I flailed around like a fish out of water, and nearly dislocated my shoulder. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Lowland New Guineans on the coast do obtain much fish and shellfish, and some lowlanders in the interior still live today as hunter-gatherers, subsisting especially on wild sago palms. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Z opened the glove compartment and fished through the mess of papers inside. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

We then rolled each pile into the middle of a piece of oilcloth, tucked the ends of the cloth over, and tied the bundle with plenty of wire twisted with fishing line. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Eventually a fine fat pickle, greenish yellow and hard at the ends was fished out and laid on a scrap of brown paper. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Almost everything he encountered in Cuba—including, at our hotel, the variety of fish in the ponds, whose species he could easily name, and the caged cockatoos in the lobby—pleased him. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

For just a moment the fish turned a little on his side. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

In better times, fishing vessels trawled the river, but now there was little to catch, and what could be caught was better left uneaten. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

While I was walking in the city one day, I noticed a white woman in the gutter gnawing on some fish bones. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The main courtyard was filled with warriors—mermen with fish tails from the waist down and human bodies from the waist up, except their skin was blue, which I'd never known before. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Thor began to pull the fishing line back onto the boat. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

He then fished an envelope from the breast pocket of his vest and handed it to me. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“We could pretend we were fishing,” said Harriet, who didn’t realize that some people are fussy about boats. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

Cut the fish loose is giving up, and that means breaking Rule Number Three. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

One day I’m going by the fish co-op when a big sport-fishing boat is unloading. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“We made fish soup,” Poulsson said, “good soup, too—out of dog’s food.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sean took off his fly, tied on a plain hook, picked a buttercup and stuck it on the hook, cast, and caught a fish. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

No wig shops, no fish markets, no Mr. Charles, which had to suck. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

“Yeah...Other crews were reporting over the radio that the fish were biting at everything from bran muffins to belt buckles. But not us.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

“Says he’s brought us a wizard, Captain. Says he fished him from the sea.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Not because of the physical hardships: he had been through worse times on fishing trips down the coast of Mexico. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of those fishermen looked for more than fish. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

She fished in her purse and came out with the camera belonging to Roy’s mother. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the way back from the fish place, near Toño’s home I see a viejito, an old man, on the porch of a tiny house, sitting in a wooden chair. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

He took it up and looked at it out of curiosity and put it in his pocket to count it while he was out to find some fish to fry. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Which is why Eskimos don’t get this sort of heart attack, because they eat fish and fish stops their blood from clotting, but if they cut themselves badly they can bleed to death. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I decided to try my hand at fishing, for the first time in my life. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Throughout the Orient, people shop at outdoor marketplaces where goods such as fish, vegetables, silk, and spices are openly displayed. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I rode the rest of the way home in a funk of fish guts and sweat. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

I always caught fish, most of the time anyway. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

At multiple depths, as far as I could see, there were evanescent trails of phosphorescent green bub­bles, the wake of speeding fish. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Before we get back to the tree, Rani stops again to buy some dried fish and some other food from vendors sitting on the sidewalk, selling things in baskets. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

She pulled a bag of frozen fish fillets from the packed freezer and arranged six on a baking sheet. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

“If I were you,” said George, “I should bend a hairpin in the shape of a fishhook and tie it onto a piece of string and try to fish the ring out with it.” Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

We felt like canned fishes, and it was awkward to sleep and dress in a room with my sisters. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“What happened” — Mars Bar snorted — “what happened was, I went out and rescued the dumb fish. Like to get myself kilt.” Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he took the fish out of his mouth and stood up. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

But the Terrible Things threw their terrible nets down into the depths and they dragged up the dripping frogs and the shimmering fish and carried them away. Terrible Things: An Allegory of the Holocaust 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look at the sea I once planned to cross by fishing boat. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was sitting on top of one of the fish tanks, looking right at me. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

In that freshwater lake, fish with long whiskers swam down deep and close to the mud. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

There were fish to be had on the ebb tide, too, though nowhere near as many. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

We spread the tablecloth on the floor and sat cross-legged as if we were eating Mean Lady Ming’s takeout or fried fish from Shabazz. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

We tied our feet in old fishing nets that had washed ashore. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

She knew that it would take four months and lots of frozen fish to motivate Maxwell to make his way to the sky again. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

They were heading to the Rowans’ fishing cabin, which was on Loomis Lake, up closer to Mount St. Helens. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

Why did there have to be his blistered hands and his spoiled suit and sunburn and rotting fish and nausea? A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was huddled behind a turtle shell, shielding myself from the flying fish. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Or the fog might lift and I can make a deal with one of the tuna boats out on the fishing grounds. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

He knocked the pail out of my hand and the fish lay on the ground between us, its eyes wide and glassy. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

Then she turned her back on him and went out to the lake with Grandma to check their fish nets. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Small Max darting like a fish through the current of Mickiewicza. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Dead rabbits, muskrats, opossums, and fish were also found in numbers, and one of the local schools made the collection of insecticide-poisoned birds a science project. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The other thing that made Mrs. Sen happy was fish from the seaside. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

It's this big, falling-apart place with a bunch of apartments, and it looks sad and smells like fish and sour milk. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

It would not run out in an hour like the ripped and soggy mystery magazines he sometimes fished out of the garbage bins behind newsstands near Abuelito’s shop. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Swarms of young fishes, fluttering and glistening, moved anxiously away from it. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

Go on, go back down and try all the pubs around the railway station and try Naughton’s fish and chip shop. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

There had been green fields, a lake with a happy, joyful fish, and friends and parents. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

We picked our way down to the beach, where what seemed to be an entire civilization of birds were flapping and screeching and fishing in tide pools. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

I asked him if he ever fished, and he said no, that he didn't care for it. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

He saw a window that looked out on a river which he knew was full of fish. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

We packed blankets, food, canteens, fishing line, the lavender blanket Maureen took everywhere, Lori’s paper and pencils, Mom’s easel and canvases and brushes and paints. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“We’re doing fine. See those huts, the irrigation system, fishing lines, the rain-catching tarp, and desalination still? We built all of that.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

It was a fish of great beauty, silver like the moon and as lively as a butterfly in spring. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

So numerous were the fish, and so driven, that when mischievous boys walled off the stream with stones the alewives would leap the barrier—silver bodies gleaming in the sun— and proceed upstream. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

They’d have to fish for food, and get clams; or something. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I fished for catfish at Hubbard Lake or some of the other lakes. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He'd never gone to school, and was working on a fishing boat by the time he was ten. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now the servants chattering have become a choir in a silent movie, a line of O mouths — or a school of fish, blub blub. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look up and realize why....The giant fish tank is broken. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“There’s an ocean full of fish out there if we could find some way to catch them.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

The ones who seem like they are tied to each other with fishing line. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Since I only had one perch for her, I picked the smallest pie and dropped the fish off the stringer into a big basin. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

The rain of August 10 resulted in such a heavy fish kill throughout the river that few remained to become victims of the next surge of poison into the stream, which occurred on August 15. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Line is twanging like the high string on a steel guitar as the fish rises up to the surface, pulling the skiff behind it. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Tangy and cold, the taste of my first- ever holiday with Tom, a fishing village on the Basque coast in 2005. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had no more beard than a fish. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

I shifted and fished around on the ground for the offending item. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

I cut up a flying fish and tossed a piece onto the side bench. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The prospect of honey cakes and dates, and all the dried fish he could eat, lifted even Ranofer’s spirits. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

“Could I go out and be something, a fish or anything like that?” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Big blue fin making the whoosh as a giant fish circles my boat. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Frankie could be stubborn, but I knew the one thing my little brother loved more than fishing. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

He was the boy who’d tried to give Carl a fishing rod, the boy she used to see from her kitchen window practicing in the fields with his wooden sword. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

He pulled the largest fish off the stringer and held it in one hand with its white belly facing up. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

There were fishing rods and a tackle box on the backseat of the car. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

People would not live in fear and his father could fish again. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

At Clear Lake the western grebe is a breeding bird and also a winter visitant, attracted by the abundant fish of the lake. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

But I wished he knew what it felt like to need to go fishing. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Against them we held our nets, feet firm and braced in the mud while the water rushed away, and the fish came tumbling into them. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

The black Christians we “fished” to our Temple were conditioned, I found, by the very shock I could give them about what had been happening to them while they worshiped a blond, blue-eyed God. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The calendar noted ferial and ember days, fish days and the feastdays of saints. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Go hungry, then,” Matty told him, laughing, and finished the browned, glistening fish himself. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

As a way to get a rough estimate, however, the capture-recapture method is effective, and of more generality than the fish example might suggest. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Great Hare filled the rivers with fish and put deer upon the land. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Mordred said, in his equivocal musical voice, that he could understand a fishwife, but not a fish mistress. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bay had scales, like the fish beneath. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“They look like giant wood lice. They eat carcasses of big fish and whales.” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

There I was, laughing and smiling and enjoying the day—fishing pole gripped in my hands, bare feet propped on the railing—when the nausea would strike. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Quickly Roy picked out one fish and, teetering precariously, plunged both hands into the current. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the lethargy of her pregnancy, Amaranta Úrsula tried to set up a business in necklaces made out of the backbones of fish. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

One more heave on the fishing line and—Hymir’s bait knife flashed, and the line was cut. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

I ate the fish some hours later, also some bread, jelly, oatmeal, and cream. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

I loved being up on deck, where I watched the sea and glimpsed dolphins, sharks, and flying fish. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

I see him as weak now, clinging, gutted like a fish. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t know why it is, but something ’bout that basket don’t worry the fish too much and I can toss it in over and over and not scare ’em atall. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Right off he told us to make ourselves at home and said that his wife had just fried up some fish he’d caught that morning. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

On a pole beside the pool was a vending machine that, for a dime, dispensed small packets of fish food for tourists to feed the lunkers. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the time I was fishing for something to say. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

She worked there for three months, hoeing, fishing, plowing, planting, and helping out at the stills. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

With sons I would have known what to do: frog catching, fishing, war strategies, running around in the mud. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ve not heard that song in eons! You are human. Tasty and soft human!” the angler fish said. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Bill put the pack against one of the trees and we jointed up the rods, put on the reels, tied on leaders, and got ready to fish. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

But Cletus and Ob were as enthralled as cats in front of a fish tank, so I just kept them happy by cooking five turkey TV dinners in a row and refilling their RC’s. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

When he did go back to the fish, it was dead. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

“Fine,” I said, as I fished the leaf out of my mouth. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

My eyes follow an orange-and-white fish swimming around and around the coral at the bottom of the tank. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

It had been three days since either of them had caught a fish. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Come alongside and tell me what the fish are doing.” The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

He opened his mouth and closed it like a fish. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two days later Sarah had me go with her to the fish market. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I could not fail myself and die on a fish like this,” he said. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I'd have shot myself, too," he said after reading the obituary in the paper, "if it took me that long to catch a fish." Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

When the sun had risen further the old man realized that the fish was not tiring. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fish fought hard, dogging back and forth across the flats. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

It looked like the fish was wrapped tightly in a salt cocoon. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Felix fished out his math notebook and started calculating angles on triangles, while Freebie tried to bite his pencil. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

“The fish are gone. Those little green minnows we always see here.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Richard makes me a plate of plantain and oatmeal, since the salt fish is still stewing. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

On her dressing table, where less interesting people would’ve put a jewelry box or a picture frame, August had a fish aquarium turned upside down with a giant piece of honeycomb inside it. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her eyes have drifted toward the corners of her face, giving her the appearance of a fish. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

LeAlan: But think of this: If I was hungry, would you feed me a fish? Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Your little fish," the girl's mother told her, shaking her head with a smile. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

It feeds on small fish and is aggressive towards wizards and Muggles alike, though merpeople have been known to domesticate it. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

While Beau ran around in the shadows of the trees, sniffing and going to the bathroom, I fished the pills out of my coat pocket. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

And as if it were bird rather than fish, the herring swooped up and splashed into the sea. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

Dead bass and sun- fish were also found, occurring abundantly in Wheeler Reservoir, into which the creek flows. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Since he had decided not to sell any, he kept on making two fishes a day and when he finished twenty-five he would melt them down and start all over again. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

But it felt a little like those times when they had opened the dinner delivery containers to find that the evening meal would be grains prepared with fish oil. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

When Franca cut the fish open and began cleaning it, he found the partially digested head and arm of a monkey! Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

W hen I saw that water ripple with a huge tail, I just left my pole with the fish still on it. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he told me about his upcoming work day, I fished under the neck of my shirt and brought out the silver chain that he’d given me for my fourteenth birthday. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

My brothers complained about the lack of worms for fishing and the difficulty of digging for them in the hard, parched ground. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

“What kind of fish do harpoon fisherman go after?” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Below them, to the west, they could see the nine Little Baldy Bear Lakes, tiny and almost unbelievably beautiful, each lake pocked with hundreds of silver circles from the feeding fish. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

A group of tourists with cameras around their necks huddled by the counter, some sampling stuffed clams, others pointing to a large chart illustrating fifty different varieties of North Atlantic fish. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

She herself did nothing to help but rather talked on the phone, occasionally pausing to yell, "That's very collectible," or "Be careful with the fish, I'm pretty sure the female is pregnant." Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

The sun was still shining as he sped down into the little fishing village, but he couldn’t enjoy it. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

He had learned to eat sweet and carefully prepared foods, also fish and meat and fowl, spices and dainties, and to drink wine which made him lazy and forgetful. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was lots of fish, but except for the mackerel, I don’t remember the names. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It's a wonderland of palace buildings with golden turrets and glittering arches, fountains full of crimson and ivory fish, topiary mazes of clipped trees, shrubs, and bushes in every possible geometric shape. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

When the coals are hot, I push them into the hole, place the fish on them, and cover all with leaves, then soil. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Michael finished reading, people all around the auditorium were fishing around for tissues and handkerchiefs. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

They only say, “When fishing for treasures in the flood, be careful not to pull in girls,” because that is what one says about daughters. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nonetheless, most continue to accept Seton s basic thesis: the Americas seen by the first colonists were a wildland of thundering herds and forests with sky-high trees and lakes aswarm with fish. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Then he added, “Blessed Virgin, pray for the death of this fish. Wonderful though he is.” The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Clearly this was not the same poor village he had come to before, where only that one girl purchased a fish. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

He fished something out of his pocket—a metal disk the size of an iPod. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

You may be astonished that in such a short period of time I could go from weeping over the muffled killing of a flying fish to gleefully bludgeoning to death a dorado. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I was angry about not getting any fish,” he said as he returned to his whittling, “so I struck my crutch against a rock. It broke, of course.” A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

I hid the fishing tackle behind a stone wall just in case. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were all the coves and creeks where one could fish and set traps. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

That night, I learned later, some moron had driven his truck into Salem Harbor and that Dad was called to the accident scene to help fish him out. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Mr. Waller yelled, “Evening, Eli. Them fish looks too heavy for a boy your size to be toting. You’s ’bout to end up busting something on you that you gunn need one day. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Seven took the vial back from Thorn and put it into her rucksack, which was filled with jelly bean fish pods, just in case. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Let me see. I’m sure your daddy did most things boys do. Swim, fish, cause havoc.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

From numerous buildings hung great wooden images of things: a pig here, a helmet there, a fish, a jacket, a hoop, even a sheaf of wheat. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

I could explain it by arguing that profiting from a pitiful flying fish’s navigational mistake made me shy and sorrowful, while the excitement of actively capturing a great do­rado made me sanguinary and self-assured. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was better in such conditions to fish Elliot Head, since the head lay far from the shipping lane and well to the lee side of Elliot Island, out of the big water breezes. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I won’t describe what the accumulation of human and animal skeletons, mixed in with innumerable fish and turtle remains, looked like. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The whole time, I kept talking to the cow fish, telling her everything was okay while she mooed and moaned. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

When spring weather came, there was good hunting and fishing to be had. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She used to follow after him every place he went—out fishing in the woods, to the clubhouses he built with other boys, to the slot machine in the back of Mr. Brannon’s restaurant—everywhere. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

They had been ambling toward the river, skirting the cornfield, and had reached the grassy bank where they often fished together. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

I shoot two fish, easy pickings in this slow-moving stream, and go ahead and eat one raw even though I've just had the groosling. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The newcomer hesitated, thought for a moment, then picked the fish back up. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

But all six Cahokia projects found plenty of bird bones, and even some tiny bones from fish; one turned up 9,053 bones from 72 bird species. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

After allowing them to disperse about the lake, we catch another hundred fish and see what fraction of them are marked. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Despite the groosling and the fish, my stomach's growling, and I know I'm going to have what we call a hollow day back in District 12. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“They can be tasty,” he said, “but it’s actually spoiled fish to which I am indebted.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“Some things just do not bear thinking about. Eat your tuna fish. Ponder your riddle.” Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

That big fish takes my breath away and he won’t give it back. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Each day I speared a fish for him and when I got home he was always at the fence waiting for it. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over the years he’d learned every trade he could get close to—fishing, ship rigging, painting, framing, masonry, plumbing, roofing, tile work, even auto repair. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

For the most part they were unspeakably boring, all about life in a traditional fishing village and the enduring mysteries of animal husbandry, but one exhibit stood out from the rest. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

The turkey feather and how Frank asked about fishing, and didn’t ask about going to the cabin to look for sandhill cranes. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

She remembered a fish, gutted on a sharp glinting knife, a small hand scooping the inside of the fish. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I bet he never in his life had sat in the shade of a train trestle holding a fishing pole and watching dragonflies walk on water. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

He slapped the fish onto the table and, in one clean stroke of the hatchet, lopped off its head. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Children with swollen bellies were already fighting over pieces of die stinking fish. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

A school of tiny, glittering fish flicked hither and thither. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

If it took too long to get through Easton, Dicey would have to fish for an hour, while Sammy had free time. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’ll go to the Coliseum Cafe and have fish and chips, all he wants, lemonade galore, and then we’ll go to see Yankee Doodle Dandy with James Cagney and eat two big bars of chocolate. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I force down my field lunch of soggy fish and beet stew. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

But Ess was moving too quickly, like a fish herself, slippery. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Slowly and conscientiously he ate all of the wedge- shaped strips of fish. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

With the complaining gulls circling overhead, Cole picked up the remains of the fish. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

She told him of her work at the fish hatchery, after her discharge from the Birthing Center. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The man told Cullen that he didn't have any papers of identification or a fishing permit. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Baba's prepared his usual for dinner—fish, rice, and lentils—and stocked the fridge with necessities. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

They carried the fish into one of the sheds near the wharf and began to clean them. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aru looked down to see a slender fish spine stuck to her shoe. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I run outside and around back, but he isn’t sitting at the river, patiently waiting for a fish to tug the end of his line. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

We eat the tuna fish sandwiches Mrs. Allen packed for us and drink root beer as the sunset shoots fire across the treetops. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I quickly baited a hook with a bit of flying fish and threw the line its way. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s not the fish or crops,” he said. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

He raised himself and went about blocking, swiping and biting all the fish he could. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

On my last full day, the sixth day, the old man took me out fishing on the Rainy River. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe thinking smart is cutting loose the fish. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

She wriggles sluggishly in their arms like a dying fish. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Who knows when the big fish will come back. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

That was nothing but a bird, a leaf, the wind, or a fish in the canal. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Drawn by the scent of the fish, they sat on the hill, barking and growling at each other. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

While the littles ran to find feathers on the beach, Ben carried away the strange fish and then scrubbed the table down. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I asked Dr. Tamba if he knew where we could get some rice and fish stew in palm oil, some cassava leaves or okra soup. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“If Mom has a big event down at the hotel, that means there’s a ton of food. Your choice of chicken, beef, or fish.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

He looked first at the fish I carried and then at me and moved his tail. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The embryos still have gills. We immunize the fish against the future man’s diseases.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

No, sweetheart, there won’t be a river there to fish in. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, the only requirement for fishing those lakes was a fast unhooking technique and a pitching arm in topnotch shape for throwing the trout back in the water. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remembered him jacklegging my fish, I remembered him telling confusing tales to the new-free folks, I remembered him thinking ’bout making me travel with that conjurer, Sir Charles. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

The water in the fishbowls rippled and waved as the fish gazed calmly; their brilliant colors against the abundant green land glinted like gold and jade. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. We used to take the Johnson boat north in summer, but we sold it when we left Minnesota. We’d go ice fishing for winter break, too. Not much of that here, I guess.” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Leave this kind of life to the insects and birds, and lesser mammals, and fish. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

"The fishing hasn't been very good out here," the man said. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Aureliano gave her fourteen little gold fishes because she was determined to leave with only what she had: one peso and twenty-five cents. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Just thinking of it again made me realize how, growing up, we three were together all the time: camping out, exploring the woods, shooting baskets, fishing. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Salva was amazed by what he saw in the fishing community. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No, not at all. In fact, I rather like the fish.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“I was selfish to want to go fishing,” said my father. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

And doesn’t own a baseball cap with a fish on it? Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“We eat a lot of fish. Herring. Salt cod. And yes, reindeer, but not the hooves.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He goes back to his fish and chips but I tell him again,You promised me. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“The dining car wiped me out. I fished out my last bit of change and passed Grover a quarter, which left me two nickels and one drachma from Medusa’s place. “ The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

For two moons I did not see him and then one morning while I was fishing he came suddenly out of the kelp. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

The men lay gasping like fish laid out on the grass. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

The people of Ikwa are still scrawny and smiley, and they host a big feast of fish and groundnuts and safou fruit for our crew. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

The sergeant fished his mop handle into a cage and pinned a monkey. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes a fish will run right across the surface, skipping and leaping and trying to shake the barb loose. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

After I took my fourth breath, I was smelling as much fish as I was smelling pies, so I opened my eyes and commenced breathing regular. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

He was sitting over a hole in this icy lake, and he was fishing through it. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Each of you will carry a ,chest of letters, and you will deliver one to every port and holdfast and fishing village. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Mama tasted the fish stew and aimed a tired smile at Anya. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

The wrinkles on her face catch them like silver fish in a net. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

He dropped the fish over the edge of the boat. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I fished a coin out of the hot water. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

She could not convince her to use the bathroom or the night lavatory and sell the gold chamberpot to Colonel Aureliano Buendía so that he could convert it into little fishes. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Or at least we was. We just broke out two nights ago. And now we on the run to Mexico where we could fish.” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

How did I let the fish cut me with that one quick pull he made? The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

We easily trade six of the fish for good bread, the other two for salt. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

There were other things in the lair of the snake: a fox’s tail, wood-pigeon wings, the head of a big fish, and fur pelts of many species of creatures. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“Every form of medication in the book. Mom, too. And then me, with the pot...when you come right down to it, there isn’t anybody in the household who isn’t seriously drugged except the fish.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

After she had offered the challenge, all he could think about was learning in school how shark teeth angled inward so fish could swim in but not out. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

“There was nothing doing, no fish. I ran up to Elliot Head real slow like. A fog run. I had my horn going.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Freshly caught fish hanging from a spit over it. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Soon they got up and left, for they had decided to try their luck with the fishing nets let down through big holes chopped in the ice. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

“You fish, Miles. I’m not so sure I want to.” Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

I fish out a small block of cheese wrapped in a cloth that Ben packed. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

I like fish, even though it makes my breath stink. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

She fished a small lace-edged handkerchief out of her bag and this she somehow managed to wrap around the end of my tail. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

At this time of year, it should have been full of fishing vessels and ships carrying goods from the north—woolens, lumber, stone from mountain quarries. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

As she fished for a token in her coat pocket, her eyes fell to his shopping bag. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

The fish nibbled at the hook with fervour. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Until I hear footfalls on the steps outside, the familiar jangle of Cathy fishing around in her huge handbag for her house keys. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Wyoming, we caught a lot of fish.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Odors of sweat, tobacco, coffee and damp stone surrounded us, overladen always by the smell of fish and nearby salt water. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fish went scooting away toward deeper water, only Yeller was too fast for him. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Others came to fish the streams, which flowed clear and cold out of the hills and contained shady pools where trout lay. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

I saw them mostly in the summer, down by the river, fishing or swimming naked, but I didn’t really know any of them. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now they only had to figure out how to get her into the fishing boat. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

There were several other foreigners in the group and they followed Longstreet’s headquarters like a small shoal of colorful fish. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He prodded moodily at the lumps of charred gray fish on his plate. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Pinmei tingled with such excitement that she felt she could have been one of the flickering fish above. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

From that moment on we knew we had the big fish on the line and all we had to do was to pull him in. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I cleaned it like I had seen the man at the fish market do, examined its stomach, and found it empty. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

While the initial construction of those “fish farms” must have involved a lot of work, they then fed many people. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The old man looked at the fish constantly to make sure it was true. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He instructed the brothers to shoot an arrow at the fish’s eye. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Those boys who made me wear the fish—they were angry like that, too. Angry at the world, and it made them mean. You have to promise me, Zach, you won’t be like them.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thousands more fish jerked in the sun and went bad along the riverbanks. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

McCormick opened his backpack and fished out rubber gloves, a paper surgical gown, a paper surgical mask, and paper boots to cover his shoes, to keep them from becoming wet with blood. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He knows me, the girl thought, or else he smells the fish. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

So I swung my backpack onto the counter, fished out my phone, and answered it. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

“I wish I was a fish,” said the Wart “What sort of fish?” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the kid is lucky, and the dog isn’t too stupid, people find out in time, and they get someone with no collarbones to go down the well and fish the kid out. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

They sat in the great room with Dad and made small talk about the Japanese fish in our lake, stuff like, Are the koi disappearing from the lake? Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stashed the fish in his front shirt pockets, and then in his coat pockets, and in his pants pockets, if necessary. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Swarms of fish lived near the bed to live near the oysters thrown back by the searching men and to nibble at the shining inner shells. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

I unwrapped the fish carefully, keeping a hand pressed down on it, fully aware that it would try to jump away to save itself. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The second Mom went back into the kitchen, the boys pounced on Jess with their news: Their dad was heading up to his fishing cabin early tomorrow morning. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

Out on the water I saw rowboats and pedal boats and sailboats, and fishing boats like this one, with a long bow and small house in the middle. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were giving off a very powerful smell of rotting fish. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

It was only then that he saw she had a fish tail instead of legs. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

“There were lots of complicated fish names in that book.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

In the distance now and then I would see dolphins; closer in, flying fish; and still closer, at the stern, sharks waiting for the daily garbage from the galley. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I would like to fly very slowly at two hundred fathoms high and see the fish from above. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He put one knee on the fish and cut strips of dark red meat longitudinally from the back of the head to the tail. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

They ate fish, monkey, and a jacare-tinga bird, which is similar to a turkey. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

So many appetites wake up that Brother Vu just has time to cook rice and serve it with plain fish sauce. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

In one smooth motion, he had Adam up against the wall, his forearm pressed across his chest, and Adam looked wide-eyed and scared, a fish out of water. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

There was one sign that showed a man holting up a fish on a line with a big X cutting him in parts. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

My mouth flapped open like the fish Mom buys at the market for “No Meat Fridays.” P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

A long, deep dish held fried fish that had been cooked in what appeared to be onions and...other things Anya had never seen before. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

I grabbed my fishing rod from the garage and dashed to the comer of the house where Dad had mounted the TV satellite dish. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

“After he bought me fish and chips, he said, ‘Let’s go for a walk on the meadow.’ The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z