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swordfish |
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swordfish Noun pl -fish or -fishes a large fish with a very long upper jaw that resembles a sword
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(the indefatigable clown of the ocean), and some swordfish ten feet long, those prophetic heralds of the hurricane whose formidable sword would now and then strike the glass of the saloon. The Nile rat kills the crocodile, the swordfish kills the whale, the book will kill the edifice. I stood indeed as little chance among them as a cumbrous whale attacked on all sides by a legion of swordfish. |
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