Like a crowd of frightened porpoises a shoal of sharks pursue
"Yes, sir," Captain Nemo replied solemnly, "of sharks and men!"
"At least, captain, your dead can sleep serenely there, out of the reach of sharks!"
Five meters away a shadow appeared and dropped to the seafloor. The alarming idea of sharks crossed my mind.
And from her cave she fishes for all things which pass by, for sharks, and seals, and dolphins, and all the herds of Amphitrite.
In less than a minute all was over with the miserable wretches; the voracious sharks made short work of it with them, tearing living and dead alike to pieces in their eagerness to obtain a share of the prey.
Experience had taught us some valuable things; among others, how to take care of ourselves, how to avoid and defeat sharks and sharpers, and how to conduct our own business for our own profit and without other people's help.
They were like the gar-pike in our Western rivers, only much larger,--as big as a stove-pipe,--and with a crust as hard as a turtle's shell. Then there came sharks, of strange forms, savage and ferocious, with teeth like bowie-knives.