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    fin


    finned


    fins


    1. five hundred pounds of fin and metal


    2. Then, a large hook was inserted behind the whale’s front fin


    3. Troy was waiting for her at the bus shelter - along with Fin and Willow - which lowered Lyra’s mood a bit, but not for long


    4. Fin said something in Troy’s ear and they both burst out laughing


    5. “Onward, mine leader,” Fin said, swinging the pack onto his back with a big grin


    6. Fin looked across and nodded


    7. “Shut up Fin,” Willow said, giving him a slap on the arm


    8. “So what’s the emergency then?” Fin said as he stuck his head into the bus shelter


    9. Lyra felt her face flush and wished with all her heart that Fin didn’t have such a big mouth at times


    10. “Always thought there was something funny about that,” Fin said

    11. “He’s hacked into the school files and given us some good grades, haven’t you Fin?”


    12. The call went dead and Fin turned off his mobile, shaking his head


    13. Grabbing a coat, Fin told his mother that he was going out for awhile


    14. The moon was high, lighting the road as Fin rode out into the countryside


    15. Arriving at his bedroom, Grant pulled Fin in and closed the door


    16. Fin just stood there, mouth open as he looked at all the equipment


    17. A projector was whirring away on a low table and Fin could see that Grant had been playing an on-line shooter game, but instead of the usual hand-held paddles, Grant had an electronic rifle connected to the system


    18. Fin glanced at him and saw that he was wearing a mike and small earphones


    19. Fin was still engrossed in the rifle and jumped when Grant called to him


    20. Fin put the rifle down and walked over to the desk

    21. They were moving to fast to read, but didn’t make any sense to Fin anyway


    22. Fin watched for the next half hour as Grant studied screen after screen of characters


    23. Fin looked down at the flash drive that Grant was holding between his fingers, not understanding what his friend was telling him


    24. Grant spoke to Fin as though to a child


    25. “So?” Fin was intrigued, wondering why such a sophisticated code had been used on a flash drive


    26. ” He held up his hand when Fin went to interrupt


    27. “Tough luck mate,” Grant said, tossing the flash drive at Fin


    28. Fin caught the flash drive and stuck it in his pocket


    29. Fin made a new file on the pen drive and saved the password in it


    30. Ready, Fin hesitated a moment, then taking a deep breath, he tapped the Enter key

    31. Fin sat back in disappointment when the file opened


    32. He hadn’t exactly lied to her when he’d let her assume that it was being held at Fin and Willow’s house, but if he’d told her where it was being held, there was no way she’d have agreed to come


    33. This is my girlfriend, Kirsti,” Fin said


    34. “Don’t see no van Gough around here,” Fin shouted back, bending his ear so it looked as if it was missing


    35. With a muttered, “Ooh get you!” Fin cast the rope off


    36. Lyra looked at the pen drive Fin dropped into her hand


    37. Fin winked at her


    38. Every one groaned and Fin took a bow


    39. “First things first, we need to get the barbecue going,” Fin called, handing the big CD player he was carrying to Kirsti


    40. Fin grabbed her around the waist from behind and gave her a squeeze

    41. Fin took the teasing in good faith and munched on his meal as he made his way back to his rock-seat, shaking his head


    42. Fin climbed the old steps until he reached the top


    43. Fin walked out onto the concrete and spun around in a circle


    44. Fin might have been a joker, with a mouth the size of the Eurotunnel, but he was also extremely shy - something only his closest friends were aware of


    45. Fin continued to watch the sky, mesmerised by the view, leaning his head far back, unaware of the movements in the gravel a short distance away


    46. Fin shook his head and set off across the concrete


    47. Suddenly realising what was happening, Fin plucked the lamp off the ground and shook it


    48. Fin tried to slow his breathing, feeling the sweat forming between his shoulder blades


    49. “Kirsti, I’m bloody stuck up here!” Fin shouted at the top of his voice


    50. Fin took a few deep breaths, trying to calm himself














































    1. Sure enough, there was a small, red finned fish wriggling on the hook


    2. finned and lobe-finned bony fish appeared, while the


    3. Even though he was finned,


    1. Glenelle drifted back from logging readings, her personification the little zero-gee fairy with goldfish fins on her feet instead of wings


    2. Fourthly, Salt fish of all kinds, whale fins, whalebone, oil, and blubber, not caught by and cured on board British vessels, when imported into Great Britain, are subject to double aliens duty


    3. Yes, he decided, graceful; like a plump angelfish without fins


    4. The grey fish have two spiky, white, long fins on each side of their bodies that helps them to swim


    5. The fins resemble sharp Q-tips and carry small gills on each of them


    6. On each side of the sharks near the head are round, double layer fins that stick out five feet in diameter


    7. The fins look circular like stingray bodies


    8. There is another small set of fins towards the midsection and a long narrow tail


    9. The creatures also have 10-20 small fins moving on the side of their eyes across the side of their bodies


    10. Most of the sea animals adapted with wings or fins that work underwater and in the air

    11. Their heads contain helium that enables them to float without needing wings or flapping fins


    12. Grey medium-sized sharks with red flapping fins and several eyes around their nose leap out from the clouds below the octopuses


    13. The fast moving tail and flapping fins work in sync


    14. The lobsters jump on the sharks’ backs and quickly bite into their fins


    15. Jaden moves over to the shark’s fins and tastes that as well


    16. 9 These shall you eat of all that are in the waters: whatever has fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the rivers, them shall you eat;


    17. 10 And all that have not fins and scales in the seas, and in the rivers, of all that move in the waters, and of any living thing which is in the waters, they shall be an abomination to you:


    18. 12 Whatever has no fins nor scales in the waters, that shall be an abomination to you;


    19. 9 These you shall eat of all that are in the waters: all that have fins and scales shall you eat:


    20. 10 And whatever has not fins and scales you may not eat; it is unclean to you

    21. 9 These shall ye eat of all that are in the waters: whatsoever hath fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the rivers,


    22. 10 And all that have not fins and scales in the seas, and in the rivers, of all that move in the waters, and of any living thing


    23. 12 Whatsoever hath no fins nor scales in the waters, that shall be an abomination unto you


    24. Half the time the damned fins don't unfold evenly, and they wind up going all over the place


    25. moving onto the skin afterwards, then the fins, until nothing was


    26. Two heat fins on the air-cooled engine had been ripped off as well


    27. The front half was a calf—a baby, with black fur and big, sad brown eyes and a white muzzle—and its back half was a black-and-brown snaky tail with fins running down the top and bottom, like an enormous eel


    28. Batam was terrified, in other words, opened his eyes excessively, expanded the fins of his nose and bleached the complexion of his face


    29. "I think I will name you Bouncer," said Peter, and the seahorse clapped its seal-like fins and jumped back in the water to play again


    30. The ceiling was a masterpiece to put the rest of the artwork in the castle to shame: fashioned from jewels, diamonds, and bits of smooth glass was an expansive, inverted model of the open sea, replete with cruising fins and schools of fish, tropical islands and archipelagos, a tortoise with a scale forest on its back, and a replica of Coral Wing itself carved out of a sparkling prism, so faithfully rendered that Jai wondered whether there was an even tinier version of the fortress inside the first model

    31. The children saw that as the blue gems swept from side to side, the myriad tiny fins and turtle shells rose and fell below the waves


    32. Cliff’s fins drooped like wilting leaves


    33. They towered over the entrance to the river, their upraised hands fifty fins high


    34. Lightning hit the water a dozen fins in front of the boat—before they sailed directly through the geyser of sparks the children saw that the river was flowing straight for the edge of a ravine, gushing over the side to disappear


    35. Looking back, the ledge they had sailed off was no more than ten fins high; looking forward, their new location was far less preferable


    36. In the center of the clearing was a stone tower, thirty fins tall


    37. Jai and Ceder swapped a look of amazement—the log had passed only fins above their heads


    38. Waiting for the last possible moment before the pink prow reached the roaring falls, the Dangler whipped his pole back, hooked the same log he had rescued them from earlier, and cast it forward so that the log slammed into the waterfall twenty fins above the river


    39. It was a full thirty fins tall


    40. It was thirty fins tall, made of the same gray stone as the tower

    41. “It would take a year to cut through ten fins of this insidious atrocity


    42. Black stems, thick and thin, crashed into the shallow river as Jai cleared a path of twenty fins through the formerly impassable brambles


    43. His climb down the tower complete, the Dangler peeked over the hole in the top of the mountain, a hundred fins above the children


    44. “What are those fins, do you see them?”


    45. He jumped up to see the three large black fins, one very tall, and the other two smaller, moving in perfect unison


    46. Brawny arms swung the dead man over the rail, and a dozen fins cut the water as he sank


    47. The corpses, white and black, were hurled overboard, where triangular fins were already cutting the water


    48. slice off the fins then throw the body overboard


    49. without fins can't swim, they end up sinking to the bottom of


    50. by catching a shark, slicing off its fins then tossing the body














































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    Synonyms for "fin"

    fin flipper louver louvre tail fin tailfin 5 cinque five fivesome little phoebe pentad phoebe quint quintet quintuplet v break water member fluke arm

    "fin" definitions

    the cardinal number that is the sum of four and one


    one of a pair of decorations projecting above the rear fenders of an automobile


    one of a set of parallel slats in a door or window to admit air and reject rain


    a shoe for swimming; the paddle-like front is an aid in swimming (especially underwater)


    a stabilizer on a ship that resembles the fin of a fish


    organ of locomotion and balance in fishes and some other aquatic animals


    equip (a car) with fins


    propel oneself through the water in a finning motion


    show the fins above the water while swimming