I fear we must give up the notion of cuttle-fish stewed in their own ink, though some former travellers have not spoken so favourable of this Greek dish.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes and Queries, Number 16, February 16, 1850] Reference

"I've no doubt," interposed Peterkin, "that he means cuttle, which is the short name for cuttle-fish, which, in such an inland place as this, must of course be hoaxes!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gorilla Hunters] Reference

That means, as we fishes describe it, a kind of cuttle or ink-fish among men. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen] Reference

The cuttle-fish fought with the fire and was beaten.    From Wordnik.com.  [Samoa, A Hundred Years Ago And Long Before] Reference

Cod-fish are sorely attacked by dog and cuttle-fish.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 401, November 28, 1829] Reference

To another family he was incarnate in the cuttle-fish.    From Wordnik.com.  [Samoa, A Hundred Years Ago And Long Before] Reference

Tapuaau, who swam hither from Fiji with his cuttle-fish.    From Wordnik.com.  [Samoa, A Hundred Years Ago And Long Before] Reference

The cuttle-fish, the octopus, and the crawfish may be caught by bait.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Animals] Reference

“Works and Days” l. 524, the “Boneless One” is the cuttle-fish.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica] Reference

The movements of the cuttle-fish at sea were also looked after at war-times.    From Wordnik.com.  [Samoa, A Hundred Years Ago And Long Before] Reference

Their ink was sometimes composed of a black liquid emitted by the cuttle fish.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roman Antiquities, and Ancient Mythology For Classical Schools (2nd ed)] Reference

It was found that the cuttle-fish and squid were absent, so they waited for them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Filipino Popular Tales] Reference

The natural was made from a black earth, or from the secretion of the cuttle-fish, sepia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference

The cuttle-fish brought forth all kinds of rocks, and hence the great one on which we live.    From Wordnik.com.  [Samoa, A Hundred Years Ago And Long Before] Reference

In another family Moso was incarnate in the cuttle-fish, and none of them dared to eat one.    From Wordnik.com.  [Samoa, A Hundred Years Ago And Long Before] Reference

"I presume you mean that a giant squid or cuttle fish has attacked us," spoke the professor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Under the Ocean to the South Pole Or, the Strange Cruise of the Submarine Wonder] Reference

These cetaceans are gregarious and inoffensive in disposition and feed chiefly on cuttle-fish.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference

As he looked ahead he saw the single eye of a giant cuttle-fish glaring at him from among the rocks.    From Wordnik.com.  [An American Robinson Crusoe for American Boys and Girls] Reference

The dish is composed of small cuttle-fish (with their ink-bags) boiled with rice or other vegetables.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes and Queries, Number 13, January 26, 1850] Reference

The aluminium is carefully cleaned by rubbing with a cuttle bone, or fine sand, and strong warm potash.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Laboratory Arts] Reference

In the cuttle-fishes we find an eye even more completely constructed on the vertebrate type than is the ear.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Genesis of Species] Reference

All molluscs, when frightened, discharge such a juice, but the discharge is most copious in the cuttle-fish.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Animals] Reference

The poor basket was so frightened, look, it has shed a thick black dust over me, the same as a cuttle-fish does.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1] Reference

The stoot, be it noted, is a cross between the porpoise and the cuttle - fish; hence its local name of the porputtle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, 1920-09-08] Reference

Get him some scraped cuttle-fish bone, if he will eat it, and rub on a little vaseline, and on a bright day get him to bathe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Folks (November 1884) A Magazine for the Young] Reference

These were the cuttle-fish of the party, whose appointed duty it was to obscure popular vision by clouds of loyal declamation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War] Reference

Sea-slugs, cuttle-fish, and other creatures which we consider the mere offal of the sea, are eagerly devoured by the Japanese.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peeps at Many Lands: Japan] Reference

"There, I told you so!" she exclaimed, on catching sight of them, with the stains of the cuttle-fish plainly visible on their clothes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bob Strong's Holidays Adrift in the Channel] Reference

There is a story that the cuttle-fish gods of Savaii were once chased by an Upolu hero, who caught them in a great net and killed them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Samoa, A Hundred Years Ago And Long Before] Reference

To a large number of people the name devil fish brings to mind a conception of an octopus, squid, cuttle fish, or a member of that species.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Swift and His Undersea Search, or, the Treasure on the Floor of the Atlantic] Reference

Ten penguins taken on the 19th were all in poor condition, and their stomachs contained nothing but stones and a few cuttle – fish beaks.    From Wordnik.com.  [South: the story of Shackleton’s last expedition 1914–1917] Reference

He devours very large fish, even sharks, but his principal food seems to be cuttle-fish and squids, some of them of as great bulk as himself.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ranching, Sport and Travel] Reference

These cuttle-fishes are creatures that we seldom see, but in the Mediterranean they are an article of food and many kinds are known to the fishermen.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference

The cuttle-fish in which this so-called bone is generally met with, is the same species from whence the well-known colour sepia used in painting is usually obtained.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bob Strong's Holidays Adrift in the Channel] Reference