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noun

another name for the osprey

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fish cake, fish crow, fish culture, fish doctor, fish duck, fish eagle, fisher, Fisher King, fisherman, fisherman's bend, fisherman's knot

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When Chérif got out of prison, he worked at the fish counter of a supermarket.
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“The government just wanted to catch the big fish [in the Juarez cartel] and they ignored everything in between,” Lozoya said.
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Also in Germany, he made The Mountain Eagle, which was set, Hitchcock recalled, “in Old Kentucky, wherever that might be.”
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Kocurek documented the scene with notes and diagrams, and called the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
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A U.S. Fish and Wildlife officer corroborated another account.
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He must be The saltest fish that swims the sea.And, oh!He has a secret woe!
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We always think of “eagle” when we think of “swoop,” but we do not often think of “swoop” when we think of “eagle.”
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He was a good judge of men, that eagle-faced major; he knew that the slightest move with hostile intent would mean a smoking gun.
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He looked up from his fish and replied, somewhat cuttingly, "By contesting a borough and getting elected."
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Smoking, the angry and fuming king protests, had made our manners as rude as those of the fish-wives of Dieppe.
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