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Great Fish

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Great Fish

River in Eastern Cape province, South Africa, rising in the Sneeuberg Mountains, and flowing into the Indian Ocean about 50 km/31 mi southwest of East London; length 480 km/298 mi. The river drains over 30,000 sq km/11,583 sq mi.

In the past the river marked the eastern frontier between European colonists and the Xhosa peoples.



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The fisherman used to go out all day long a-fishing; and one day, as he sat on the shore with his rod, looking at the sparkling waves and watching his line, all on a sudden his float was dragged away deep into the water: and in drawing it up he pulled out a great fish.
Fairy Tales by Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm View in context
Having baited the hook with some bread which he broke from his loaf, he dropped the line into the water and almost instantly it was seized by a great fish.
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A brief pause ensued; the preacher slowly turned over the leaves of the Bible, and at last, folding his hand down upon the proper page, said: Beloved shipmates, clinch the last verse of the first chapter of Jonah -- And God had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah.
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