There it was, alongside of me, and no mere fish-shark.

The broad gray back of something surely too large to be a mere fish was sinking beneath the surface.

Apart from its sheer girth, their foe bore an unmistakable glimmer in its eyes, impossible to mistake for mere fish-hunger-Mrs.

"Ugh," exclaimed the father, "if a mere fish scares you so badly, I fear you will never make a warrior!"