A voracious dolphin was harpooned, in the maw of which was a barracouta in. From Wordnik.com. [Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 1] Reference
The Maories have quite an original way of catching barracouta. From Wordnik.com. [The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales] Reference
The barracouta, nearly spent, swam off without even waiting to say 'Thank you.'. From Wordnik.com. [Children of the Wild] Reference
Seated in a boat with sail set, they slip along until a school of barracouta is happened upon. From Wordnik.com. [The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales] Reference
And the gaping, long-toothed jaws of an immense barracouta closed upon the head of the Inkmaker, biting him clean in halves. From Wordnik.com. [Children of the Wild] Reference
Now and again a long, black shadow would sail slowly over the scene of freakish life -- the shadow of a passing albacore or barracouta. From Wordnik.com. [Kings in Exile] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Children of the Wild] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Children of the Wild] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Peter Simple; and, The Three Cutters, Vol. 1-2] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Peter Simple] Reference
I thought the barracouta had eaten him up, feelers and eyes and all. ". From Wordnik.com. [Children of the Wild] Reference
The long, elaborate breakfast over: they had to eat their way through chops and steaks, eggs and rissoles, barracouta and garfish, fruit, hot rolls, preserves, tea and coffee: breakfast coped with, Mary waited, dressed for driving, for the carriage to come round, and for her hostess to cease goading on her several maidservants and tracking down their misdeeds. From Wordnik.com. [The Way Home] Reference
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