Sentence examples for sea devil from inspiring English sources
noun
Any very large ray, especially any species of the genus .
LONDON — Not only is it one of the ugliest creatures imaginable, the sea devil is so vicious and greedy that it eats things of its own size.
The sea devil is displayed, together with the (nearly as gruesome) fangtooth, viper fish and football fish, in "The Deep," an exhibition running through Sept. 5 at the Natural History Museum in London.
I had never heard of a SEA DEVIL, but it turns out that that is a nickname for the manta ray, and is not the underwater version of the Dirt Devil, as I originally thought.
Stigmatised by the insular Scottish community who blame him for the unexplained tragedy (Aaron can remember nothing) and enraptured by fairytale memories of a sea devil that swallowed children into its "dirty belly", this wandering ghost is drawn back to the dark waters whose whispered secrets haunt his waking dreams.
The same demon is called a mukkelevi in Shetland, where it was considered a nasty sea trow or sea devil.
Guest Domestic Filmmakers: "Turd": Andrew Zuchero (Philadelphia) "Si Nos Dejan": Celia Rowlson-Hall (Virginia) "Sea Devil": Calavera (New York) "Untitled Stunt Spectacular": Ray Tintori (Court 13, New Orleans).
A reference book, Doctor Who: The Visual Dictionary, describes the exhibit behind The Doctor's and Rose's heads when they are looking at the Cyberman's helmet as the decayed head of a Sea Devil from the Jon Pertwee serial The Sea Devils.
His wife's Aunt Chin believed that Peiping fell to the Communists because of an ancient emperor's sacred promise to sea devils that they would become government officials in a future incarnation.
The Lawless Breed (1953) had Rock Hudson in an early starring role as legendary gunman John Wesley Hardin, but Sea Devils (1953), filmed in England, used Hudson less well as a Channel Islands smuggler in about 1800 who gets mixed up with a spy (Yvonne De Carlo).
Music followed from stories across the decades such as The Tomb of the Cybermen (1967), The Sea Devils (1972), The Five Doctors (1983) and The Curse of Fenric (1989).
Chibnall also considered bringing back the Silurians' amphibious cousins the Sea Devils, but decided that doing two races of monster was much tougher and the story was "so clearly about the Silurians and what the Silurians want".
