A voracious dolphin was harpooned, in the maw of which was a barracouta in ❋ Phillip Parker King (N/A)
She had a lump of butter on the table, a barracouta loaf, and the cresses tumbled in a white cloth. ❋ Unknown (1920)
"But what's a barracouta?" demanded the Babe hurriedly. ❋ Charles George Douglas Roberts (1901)
And the barracouta ate the remains of the Inkmaker at his leisure. ❋ Charles George Douglas Roberts (1901)
"He remembered how the barracouta had saved _him_!" ❋ Charles George Douglas Roberts (1901)
And the gaping, long-toothed jaws of an immense barracouta closed upon the head of the Inkmaker, biting him clean in halves. ❋ Charles George Douglas Roberts (1901)
"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." ❋ Charles George Douglas Roberts (1901)
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. ❋ Charles George Douglas Roberts (1901)
In fact, he had just fixed one of his longer tentacles on a vigorous four-foot barracouta, and was slowly drawing him down within reach of the rest of the feelers, when Little ❋ Charles George Douglas Roberts (1901)
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. ❋ Charles George Douglas Roberts (1901)
Now and again a long, black shadow would sail slowly over the scene of freakish life -- the shadow of a passing albacore or barracouta. ❋ Charles George Douglas Roberts (1901)
The barracouta, nearly spent, swam off without even waiting to say 'Thank you.' ❋ Charles George Douglas Roberts (1901)
The Maories have quite an original way of catching barracouta. ❋ Frank T. Bullen (1886)
One morning, when a stark calm left, the surface of the bay as smooth as a mirror, I was watching a few stealthily-gliding barracouta sneaking about over the plainly visible bottom, though at a depth of seven or eight fathoms. ❋ Frank T. Bullen (1886)
Seated in a boat with sail set, they slip along until a school of barracouta is happened upon. ❋ Frank T. Bullen (1886)
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 ❋ Frank T. Bullen (1886)
I saw one of the boat keepers astern catch a large barracouta, and eat it alive -- indeed, if I had not given the strictest orders, and flogged half-a-dozen of them, I doubt whether they would not have eaten their victuals raw to this day. ❋ Frederick Marryat (1820)
I saw one of the boat-keepers astern catch a large barracouta and eat it alive -- indeed, if I had not given the strictest orders, and flogged half-a-dozen of them, I doubt whether they would not have eaten their victuals raw to this day. ❋ Frederick Marryat (1820)
"_succes_," and "_bon voyage_" -- the builder clapping his hands, and skipping with all the simial ecstasy of a Frenchman, at the encomiums lavished upon his vessel, as she cleaved through the water with the undeviating rapidity of a barracouta. ❋ Frederick Marryat (1820)
I thought the barracouta had eaten him up, feelers and eyes and all. " ❋ Charles George Douglas Roberts (1901)
