We'll know before the day is out whether we have caught our big, lean-jawed pike, or whether he has got through the meshes.
Always there was this feeling of an unseen force, a fine net drawn round us with infinite skill and delicacy, holding us so lightly that it was only at some supreme moment that one realised that one was indeed entangled in its meshes.
Chapter 3 The engineer, the meshes of the net having given way, had been carried off by a wave.
The five voyagers had hoisted themselves into the net, and clung to the meshes, gazing at the abyss.
Wakem's conscience was not uneasy because he had used a few tricks against the miller; why should he hate that unsuccessful plaintiff, that pitiable, furious bull entangled in the meshes of a net?
It also meshes with China promoting investment and infrastructure in parts of the world that are neglected," said Fred Gale, senior economist at the US Department of Agriculture.
The Little Fish escaped through the meshes of the net, and got back into the deep, but the Great Fish were all caught and hauled into the ship.
But shortly afterwards he became entangled in the meshes of a cobweb, and was eaten by a spider.
