barracouta

A voracious dolphin was harpooned, in the maw of which was a barracouta in

Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 1 Phillip Parker King

She had a lump of butter on the table, a barracouta loaf, and the cresses tumbled in a white cloth.

Bliss, and Other Stories 1920

"But what's a barracouta?" demanded the Babe hurriedly.

Children of the Wild Charles George Douglas Roberts 1901

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.

Children of the Wild Charles George Douglas Roberts 1901

And the barracouta ate the remains of the Inkmaker at his leisure.

Children of the Wild Charles George Douglas Roberts 1901

And the gaping, long-toothed jaws of an immense barracouta closed upon the head of the Inkmaker, biting him clean in halves.

Children of the Wild Charles George Douglas Roberts 1901

"When Little Sword saw those long feelers dragging the barracouta down," went on Uncle Andy, after relighting his pipe, "he darted forward like a blue flame and jabbed his sword right through the nearest one."

Children of the Wild Charles George Douglas Roberts 1901

The struggling barracouta was drawn down with them, but blindly; and the water was now utterly black with the rank ink which the monster was pumping forth.

Children of the Wild Charles George Douglas Roberts 1901

Now and again a long, black shadow would sail slowly over the scene of freakish life -- the shadow of a passing albacore or barracouta.

Kings in Exile Charles George Douglas Roberts 1901

The barracouta, nearly spent, swam off without even waiting to say 'Thank you.'

Children of the Wild Charles George Douglas Roberts 1901