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Whale

noun

A very large person; impressive in size or qualities. Synonyms: giant, heavyweight, hulk.

Any of the larger cetacean mammals having a streamlined body and breathing through a blowhole on the head.

verb

Hunt for whales.

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"Whale" Quotes from Famous Books

... far up will they spring, To drift and sport and plunder, Shark, eel and whale and devil-thing, With tooth to rend and tail to sting. To the sea, O God, does horror cling And haunting past ...

— Many Gods • Cale Young Rice

... no migration of the oyster from one centre of origin to another, any more than there has been a transference of the white whale from the arctic seas to the fiery equator. Every thing has its place in nature, and comes with or without seed as natural laws determine. During the last year I have gathered cedar trees that did not make their appearance till late in August ...

— Life: Its True Genesis • R. W. Wright

... from Governor Hunter a six-oared whale boat, six men, and six weeks provisions: with this outfit he proceeded along the eastern coast of New Holland, occasionally landing and obtaining supplies, which enabled him to prolong his absence to eleven weeks. He continued ...

— The History of Tasmania, Volume I (of 2) • John West

... the latter we meet with remains of Dolphins and of Whales of the "Zeuglodont" family. We may also note here the first appearance of true "Whalebone Whales," two species of which, resembling the living "Right Whale" of Arctic seas, and belonging to the same genus (Baloena), have been detected in the ...

— The Ancient Life History of the Earth • Henry Alleyne Nicholson

... distance, looks like a great whale basking on the surface of the sea and nuzzling its young. That is a feature very common to our Islands; for time, and the weather, and the ever-restless sea wear through the softer veins, which run through ...

— Carette of Sark • John Oxenham

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