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1 Why did you not let me become a whole shoal of crabs?
2 If it's only moonlight, they keep far outside, the whole shoal !
3 We had the whole shoal at our mercy, for George had confidently provided against all contingencies.
4 A whole shoal of them appeared beneath the boat, waving their arms, their button eyes glistening.
5 How frightfully embarrassing to meet a whole shoal of whitebait you had last known at Prince's!
6 The whole shoal were presently around me.
7 So I suppose if you had a whole shoal of them latching onto you...
8 They've sounded it, an found the whole shoal about three an a half mile long, an a half a mile broad.
9 Whole shoals of them fly away from the bows of the ship as she presses through the water.
10 This quarter will bring whole shoals of mackerel, and plenty of green pease; likewise gooseberries, cherries, cheese-cakes, and custards.
11 Everybody, anybody, my wife, my pastor, every now and then an editor, whole shoals of publishers....
12 "I suppose," said Tom, "she cuts up a great whale like you into a whole shoal of porpoises?"
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