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  • Is that all you have to say, you rabbit-eared, fish-blooded … Between his own joy and rage he could scarcely splutter.

    Ishmael Barbara Hambly 2000

  • Is that all you have to say, you rabbit-eared, fish-blooded … Between his own joy and rage he could scarcely splutter.

    Ishmael Barbara Hambly 2000

  • May God in his mercy shield all such from the parrot criticisms and brutal insults of the fish-blooded, pharisaical female, whose heart never thrilled to love's wild melody, yet who marries for money -- puts her frozen charms up at auction for the highest bidder, and having obtained a fair price by false pretenses, imagines herself preeminently respectable!

    The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 1. 1898

  • I know this young lady what the Captain was engaged to, which he never would have been if he had taken my advice, since of all the fish-blooded little serpents that ever

    Queen Sheba's Ring Henry Rider Haggard 1890

  • "Are you not at all jealous, you fish-blooded German?"

    The Malady of the Century Max Simon Nordau 1886

  • At a night school he attended for a while he chafed under the rule of a "fish-blooded tyrant of whom Dickens would have made a character."

    NPR Topics: News 2010

  • At a night school he attended for a while he chafed under the rule of a "fish-blooded tyrant of whom Dickens would have made a character."

    NPR Topics: News 2010

  • At a night school he attended for a while he chafed under the rule of a "fish-blooded tyrant of whom Dickens would have made a character."

    NPR Topics: News 2010

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