 ... tackle a man twice his size on dry land. Once more Peer was jerked almost overboard. He thought of the forest fire the year before — it would never do to have another such mishap on his shoulders. Suppose the great monster did come up and capsize...  The Great Hunger - Page 17by Johan Bojer - 1919 - 328 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Johan Bojer - 1919 - 330 pages
...water. The huge beast flings itself round, sending a flurry of bubbles to the surface. And there!—a gleam of white; a row of great white teeth on the underside. Aha! now he knows what it isl The Greenland shark is the fiercest monster of the northern seas, quite able to make short work... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne, Waldo Ralph Browne, Scofield Thayer - 1919 - 688 pages
...hook a big cod, on the second a catfish, on the third a great shadow bearing up through the water, a gleam of white, a row of great white teeth on the underside — a Greenland Shark. " The heavy body big as a grown man was heaved in over the gunwale. . . There... | |
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