| 单词 | barracouta |
| 例句 | About six feet below the barnacles a cavernous-jawed barracouta, perhaps five feet long, lay motionless but for the easy waving of its fins. The Haunters of the Silences A Book of Animal Life The gorge, too, was alive with barracoutas and sharks, leaping out of water, or with their stiff triangular fins cutting just above the surface, and sometimes even grazing the blades of the cutter’s oars. Captain Brand of the "Centipede" A Pirate of Eminence in the West Indies: His Love and Exploits, Together with Some Account of the Singular Manner by Which He Departed This Life As buoyant as a cork, he soon came to the surface, and, scrambling upon the stage, he seized a barracouta from the boat, and rushed at his mate. The Tale of Timber Town Now and again a long, black shadow would sail slowly over the scene of freakish life—the shadow of a passing albacore 176 or barracouta. Kings in Exile "Not too fast for a barracouta," said Tom; so we put out lines and watched the stretched strings, and listened to the sea. Pieces of Eight Then, the barracouta's powerful tail twisted with a violence that sent the water swirling as from a screw. The Haunters of the Silences A Book of Animal Life "When Little Sword saw those long feelers dragging the barracouta down," went on Uncle Andy, after relighting his pipe, "he darted forward like a blue flame and jabbed his sword right through the nearest one." Children of the Wild The smaller kinds consisted of bonetas, barracoutas, porpoises, and flying fish. Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 1 In the maw there were, besides a large quantity of dismembered squid of great size, a number of fish, such as rock-cod, barracouta, schnapper, and the like, whose presence there was a revelation to me. The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales After awhile, Tom's line grew taut, and we hauled in a 5-foot barracouta, a bar of silver with a long flat head, all speed and ferocity, and wonderful teeth. Pieces of Eight "He remembered how the barracouta had saved him!" Children of the Wild He'd have jabbed the barracouta, and eaten him, too, just as quick as look, but he hated the Inkmaker, and could not think of anything else. Children of the Wild The struggling barracouta was drawn down with them, but blindly; and the water was now utterly black with the rank ink which the monster was pumping forth. Children of the Wild Seated in a boat with sail set, they slip along until a school of barracouta is happened upon. The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales "Look!" said Tom, as he pointed to a little writhing eel-like shape, about nine inches long, attached to the belly of the barracouta. Pieces of Eight And the barracouta ate the remains of the Inkmaker at his leisure. Children of the Wild It was little he had to fear from the barracoutas. Children of the Wild The barracouta, nearly spent, swam off without even waiting to say 'Thank you.' Children of the Wild And the gaping, long-toothed jaws of an immense barracouta closed upon the head of the Inkmaker, biting him clean in halves. Children of the Wild |
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