Read full poem →contrast between beauty and harshness.
15. Ammonites, fossil shells of cuttle-fishes, once thought to be petri-
fied snakes. i
Dictionary Entry
A cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in water, moving with the help of fins and breathing with gills.
In a Sentence
“Salmon is a fish.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
. fishesfishes bonyfishes freshwaterfishes smallfishes marine
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Antonyms
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Poetry examples for “fishes”
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Read full poem →Sparkles a wet, reviving sea. Here bleach
The skeletons of fishes, every bone
Polished and stark, like traceries of stone,
Read full poem →And terrible fishes to seize my flesh,
Such as a living man might fear,
Read full poem →Fishes and gulls ring no bells. There cannot be
A chapel or church between here and Devon,
Read full poem →ting on the sacred stool, created the world.
First he made the fishes in the big water, then the ani-
mals on the green land, and last of all The Man.
Read full poem →The miles profound of solid green, and be
With loath'd cold fishes, far from man--or what;--
I know the sadness but the cause know not.
Read full poem →The buck in brake his winter coat he flings;
The fishes float with new repairèd scale;
The adder all her slough away she slings;
Read full poem →My brow is crowned with branches of the pine;
Before my chariot-wheels the fishes glide.
By me all things unclean are purified,
Read full poem →While green grass beneath me lies,
Pearled with dew like fishes' eyes,
Here I lie, a clock-a-clay,