Like an eel Leo squirmed from his grasp, and panting the two faced each other.
"Leo the Circus Boy"
Ralph Bonehill
Every now and again, Mrs. Tressiter, without ceasing from her work on the baby who slipped about in her hands like a stout eel, cried in a shrill voice: "Children, if you don't be quiet," or "Nicholas, in a moment I'll give you such a beating,"-or "Agatha, for goodness' sake!"
"Fortitude"
Hugh Walpole
Am I not rather wandering from the point, as the cook remarked to the eel, telling dreams instead of making notes on a cold weather tour as I proposed; so I will stop here, and tell what, by travel and conference, I have observed about Royal functions.
"From Edinburgh to India & Burmah"
William G. Burn Murdoch