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How to use eel in a sentence

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In Sweden it commonly includes herring, smoked eel, roast beef, tongue, jellied fish, boiled potatoes, and cheese.
Anyhoo, what I'm trying to get across is that this mag is harder to get hold of than a jellied eel.
Getting funding, however, is more slippery than jellied eel in a pie and mash shop.
He's more East End than a Limehouse jellied eel in a pearly king's whistle.
The swamp eel is predaceous, grows to about 1 m in length, and can survive dry periods by burrowing in mud.
Rough fish comprise the American eel, black sucker, dogfish, gar, lamprey eel, redhorse, sheephead, and white sucker.
In fishing terms this means that if you catch a small pouting or bootlace eel, follow the following guide and the hooklength can be saved!
The mere sight of a small eel hanging on the line after taking a bait intended for other fish, is enough to send most anglers into convulsions.
Like the freshwater eel, congers undergo considerable morphological changes prior to spawning.
But then again, such creations as eel ice cream are a revelation to the world of seafood and confections.
It is known that oysters, eel, corn bread, goose, venison, watercress, leeks, berries, and plums were eaten, all accompanied by sweet wine.
The images of the electric eel and the popping tangle of seaweed convey something of the speed and surprisingness of William's mind.
At the same site we saw a pair of purple flame gobies, a fantastic blue-ribbon eel, clown triggerfish and a beautifully striped surgeonfish.
My unprofessional opinion of these techniques of harvesting the eels is that it has made a dent in the eel population.
The extensive sushi menu by Alan Kim includes everything from crab shumai and edamame to eel hand roll and yellowtail sashimi.
With its elongated snake-like body, the Leopard Moray eel moves very gently from one end to the other in the tank.
Mac lifted the rest of the chunks of eel meat from their perches over the dying embers.
To this small band of anglers, the eel is a mysterious fish worthy of time and dedication.
It's basically something which looks like it has the head of a horse and the body of an eel.
However, Secret Diplomacy is as slippery as an eel and versatile in colour as a cameleon.
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The scalloper, wading in the shallow water, gathers the scallops from the flats by shoving the pusher among the eel grass.
He covered a probang with the skin of a small eel, or the gut of a lamb or cat.
Bartemy and I have bespoken an eel pie and a gallon of humming cider of Normandy.
So far had I noted when the left rod, upon which the fly had been replaced by a sand eel, strained for a gallant run.
One of these scavenging birds was seen to be carrying a long object, like an eel, in its mouth.
The boy had grabbed the fishing-rod, so that my rod and my eel went with them.
The newspaper is like an electric eel, as one touches it and expects a shock.
Among other remarkable passages is one descriptive of the effects of the electric eel.
The electric eel is also an inhabitant of these waters, and has sometimes nearly proved fatal to the strongest swimmer.
Only this time Peter Mink remarked that there was nothing any tastier than a fine eel.
Fig. 311 shows the entire intestinal tract of a teleost fish, Echelus conger, the conger eel.
It was natural for Uriah Heep to wriggle like an eel, but that did not make it any the less detestable.
The vinegar eel is another nematode worm which has some affinity with the preceding ones.
The day after that he tried again, and fished all the morning, and caught one yellow perch and an eel.
Lithe and quick as an eel, Jack squirmed up to the man's chest and gripped the yorker's throat in his hands.
Just then pinard glided in at the door and came up to Queen Catherine, slipping in like an eel, close to the wall.
He discovered Maui's method of making the punga or eel baskets for catching eels.
The woman proved to be cross and bad-tempered, perhaps because she had only caught one red eel during all the day.
It proved so for a while, and there Jeff pulled in his first eel.
They wanted to throttle the electric eel for their own purposes.
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