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So, finally, there were whale-sized fishes, and modern fishes mobbed corals, made gigantic by using their captured algae to eat sunshine.
Crabs, stingrays and other fishes with crushing teeth appeared, smashing shells and leading to an arms race between predators and prey.
And it includes some fishes as well.
Indeed, this object is a domestic farm, for fishes and green.
And you read further into the story, and it's saying, the horrifying thing that's going on is that the fisheries are so overfishing the wild fishes, that it is taking down the fish populations in the oceans by 38 percent.
This is what the Exxon Valdez scientists thought would happen, this trophic cascade where you lose the kelp and the herring and other fishes and going up.
There are underwater sequences where the fishes swimming about are so accurately drawn they can be used in a field guide.There are images of ships ,submarines, flying craft, castles,and machinery that are drawn in such accurate detail that one must have a freeze frame on his VCR or DVD to pause the scene and study the remarkable detail that went into this production.The late Victorian atmosphere is designed to look like this world that never was and delight us in the magic of science that made Verne the great father of the genre.
Paul is true perfection as he fishes the river, but he's feeling the pull of gambling and boozing, while his family doesn't know how to keep him from winding up where he seems to be headed.
Nick is treated like a son, working in the store and learning how to trade and handle with fishes.
-A mysterious dark figure with a cape makes some mafia heads swim with the fishes and of course Batman gets the blame for it.
Each year, uncounted skeletons of dinosaurs and fossil mammals and fishes are whisked through airport customs and sold to the highest bidder.
She took the shades off the candlesticks, had new wallpaper put up, the staircase repainted, and seats made in the garden round the sundial; she even inquired how she could get a basin with a jet fountain and fishes.
He looked at it long, attentively, and he counted the scales of the fishes and the button-holes of the doublets, while his thoughts wandered off towards Emma.
Seen thus from above, the whole landscape looked immovable as a picture; the anchored ships were massed in one corner, the river curved round the foot of the green hills, and the isles, oblique in shape, lay on the water, like large, motionless, black fishes.
Just fishes a little, to get money to get drunk on--and loafs around considerable; but lord, we all do that--leastways most of us--preachers and such like.
Of this we have an example in Don Diego Ordonez de Lara, who defied the whole town of Zamora, because he did not know that Vellido Dolfos alone had committed the treachery of slaying his king; and therefore he defied them all, and the vengeance and the reply concerned all; though, to be sure, Senor Don Diego went rather too far, indeed very much beyond the limits of a defiance; for he had no occasion to defy the dead, or the waters, or the fishes, or those yet unborn, and all the rest of it as set forth; but let that pass, for when anger breaks out there's no father, governor, or bridle to check the tongue.
In this case I found her biography sandwiched in between that of a Hebrew rabbi and that of a staff-commander who had written a monograph upon the deep-sea fishes.
That trick of staining the fishes' scales of a delicate pink is quite peculiar to China.
Instead of rudimentary trilobites, I noticed remains of a more perfect order of beings, amongst others ganoid fishes and some of those sauroids in which palaeontologists have discovered the earliest reptile forms.
"To be sure," said I; "and why should not these waters yield to us fishes of unknown species?""At any rate," he replied, "we have not seen any yet."
"Have we taken alive an inhabitant of the seas of primitive ages?""Yes; and you will observe that these fossil fishes have no identity with any living species.
But this one displays a peculiarity confined to all fishes that inhabit subterranean waters.
Thus it is evident that this sea contains none but species known to us in their fossil state, in which fishes as well as reptiles are the less perfectly and completely organised the farther back their date of creation.
I am trying to recall the peculiar instincts of the monsters of the pre-adamite world, who, coming next in succession after the molluscs, the crustaceans and le fishes, preceded the animals of mammalian race upon the earth.
Until the present time we had seen alive only marine monsters and fishes.
Behold the baits with which he fishes for souls, giving a poor space of earthly life in exchange for eternal happiness hereafter.
Fishes are, of course, unable to live in it, and those which descend through the Jordan, the Weber, and other streams soon perish.
'How cheerfully he seems to grin,How neatly spread his claws,And welcome little fishes inWith gently smiling jaws!''I'm sure those are not the right words,' said poor Alice, and her eyes filled with tears again as she went on, 'I must be Mabel after all, and I shall have to go and live in that poky little house, and have next to no toys to play with, and oh! ever so many lessons to learn!
He resumed, "Master Olivier, the Marshal de Boucicaut was wont to say, 'There's no master save the king, there are no fishes save in the sea.'
Is not the draught of fishes sufficiently fine and miraculous?
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