A flock of devilfish shapes winged half a mile away.    From Wordnik.com.  [Three Worlds To Conquer]

Land sakes, that devilfish certainly give me a hi-mighty hug!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cap'n Abe, Storekeeper] Reference

Arms seem to grow on devilfish 'while you wait' as the feller said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cap'n Abe, Storekeeper] Reference

Tis a black thing like a devilfish, with a fringe of tentacles around a burning eye -- '.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conan Of The Isles]

Born again ... out the window he can almost see the spot where the devilfish crawled in from the rocks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gravity's Rainbow]

More like a circular cloud of dense, black vapor it seemed, with whorls of mist escaping in tentacular wisps, than a literal devilfish.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conan Of The Isles]

Their emblem of the Black Kraken, which the simple thought to represent a mere giant devilfish, actually depicted this pulsing, growing, black cloud of terror.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conan Of The Isles]

He absorbed Josephine as the devilfish does its prey.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 02 Little Journeys To the Homes of Famous Women] Reference

Tom crouched over his pretended work like a devilfish devouring its prey.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 11 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen] Reference

The 'Flapjack' octopus (or Pancake devilfish) commonly has, a U-shaped shell.    From Wordnik.com.  [CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]] Reference

With a heave and a jerk appeared the entire squid, a proper devilfish or octopus.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Water Baby] Reference

"Devils of any sort ought to be give a wide berth, an 'devilfish is worser ner sea serpents.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sea Fairies] Reference

"I thought at first it was something like a devilfish, or possibly an overgrown starfish, but it's too flat, and has no body that I can see,".    From Wordnik.com.  [Triplanetary] Reference

"Of course, we mermaids have great powers, being fairies; yet among the sea people is one nearly as powerful as we are, and that is the devilfish.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sea Fairies] Reference

Au-Yeung and he said I played 'like a devilfish' - slang for the Japanese fugu fish, or blowfish, which is poisonous if it's not prepared exactly right.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference

Her pressure became irksome, he thought of the devilfish tightening its rings till fatal, and, by an effort, irresistible while gentle, he disengaged himself from her arms.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Son of Clemenceau] Reference

Here the cavern branched off in three or four directions, like the tentacles of a monster devilfish, the narrow passages leading no one knew whither in that tomb-like mountain.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Man from Brodney's] Reference

"You have seen the smaller ones, I suppose, which sometimes rise to the surface or go near the shore, and are often caught by fishermen," said Clia, "but they are only second cousins of the terrible deep-sea devilfish to which I refer.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sea Fairies] Reference

We were being taken to furnish sport for Nalboon's party by being fed to one of his captive kolono -- animals something like your earthly devilfish -- when the escort of battleships was overcome by those four karlono, the animals you saw, and one of them seized Nalboon's plane, in which we were prisoners.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Skylark of Space] Reference

"But the arms seemed fairly to grow on that devilfish.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cap'n Abe, Storekeeper] Reference

"The devilfish is found quite commonly on Mediterranean shores.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gravity's Rainbow]

Both barrels went into that devilfish, and that was more than it could stomach; so it let go, "finished the captain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cap'n Abe, Storekeeper] Reference

If those tourists ever compare notes they'll think that old pirate must have been a centipede or a devilfish to wield all those weapons. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Net] Reference

"The monster devilfish inhabit caves in the rugged, mountainous regions of the ocean," resumed the Princess, "and they are evil spirits who delight in injuring all who meet them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sea Fairies] Reference

I don’t know if they still do, but my ancestors hunted ‘devilfish’ in South Carolina, including taking a piscene version of a Nantucket sleigh ride that sometimes lasted for days.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Unusual State-Level Hunting and Animal Killing Rules:] Reference

Or from the hideous devilfish of the Gulf, -- gigantic, flat-bodied, black, with immense side-fins ever outspread like the pinions of a bat, -- the terror of luggermen, the uprooter of anchors?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chita: a Memory of Last Island] Reference

But the devilfish was not afraid.    From Wordnik.com.  [White Shadows in the South Seas] Reference

A devilfish-like snag held tree and burden.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Man of Two Countries] Reference

It is also commonly known as pancake devilfish.    From Wordnik.com.  [CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]] Reference

A devilfish!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Swift Jr And His Jetmarine]

"Ye make fast to me like a devilfish!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Isle o' Dreams] Reference

| | devil-fish (1) | devilfish (1) | |.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Skylark of Space] Reference

Sheer off, devilfish take your eyes! ".    From Wordnik.com.  [beneath an opal moon]