FLYING FISH in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
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1 There were two flying fish inside.
2 I wish a flying fish would come on board tonight.
3 The flying fish are too big for him and they go too fast.
4 They are wide spread and the flying fish have little chance.
5 A flying fish is excellent to eat raw and I would not have to cut him up.
6 No flying fish broke the surface and there was no scattering of bait fish.
7 He was very fond of flying fish as they were his principal friends on the ocean.
8 He watched the flying fish burst out again and again and the ineffectual movements of the bird.
9 Back in the bow he laid the two fillets of fish out on the wood with the flying fish beside them.
10 Then he dove suddenly and the old man saw flying fish spurt out of the water and sail desperately over the surface.
11 An airplane passed over head on its course to Miami and he watched its shadow scaring up the schools of flying fish.
12 Then he leaned over the side and washed the flying fish in the water, noting the speed of the water against his hand.
13 "With so much flying fish there should be dolphin," he said, and leaned back on the line to see if it was possible to gain any on his fish.
14 As he watched the bird dipped again slanting his wings for the dive and then swinging them wildly and ineffectually as he followed the flying fish.
15 Under the stars and with the night colder all the time he ate half of one of the dolphin fillets and one of the flying fish, gutted and with its head cut off.
16 He turned then and placed the two flying fish inside the two fillets of fish and putting his knife back in its sheath, he worked his way slowly back to the bow.
17 In the dark the old man could feel the morning coming and as he rowed he heard the trembling sound as flying fish left the water and the hissing that their stiff set wings made as they soared away in the darkness.
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