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«A whale is harpooned only when it spouts.»
Author: Henry Hillman | Keywords: harpoon, spout, spouted, spouting, spouts, whale
«I must down to the seas again to the vagrant gypsy life,To the gull's way and the whale's way where the wind's like a whetted knife; And all I ask is a merry yarn from a laughing fellow-rover, And quiet sleep and a sweet dream when the long trick's o»
Author: John Masefield | Keywords: gull, gulled, gulls, Gypsy, knife, rover, rovers, seas, vagrant, vagrants, whale, whet, whets, whetted, whetting, yarn
«Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.»
Author: Gabriel Garcia Marquez | About: Fiction | Keywords: arrived, fiction, Jonas, swallowed, whale, whales, whaling
«All men live enveloped in whale-lines. All are born with halters round their necks; but it is only when caught in the swift, sudden turn of death, that mortals realize the silent, subtle, ever present perils of life.»
Author: Herman Melville (Novelist, Poet, Writer) | Keywords: envelop, enveloped, enveloping, envelops, ever-present, halter, halters, lines, mortals, necks, perils, subtle, sudden, sudden death, swift, whale, whales, whaling
«He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and then, as if his chest had been a mortar, he burst his hot heart's shell upon it.»
Author: Herman Melville (Novelist, Poet, Writer) | About: Anger | Keywords: burst, burst upon, chest, hump, humped, mortar, piled, shell, the Hump, whale, white whale
«A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.»
Author: Herman Melville (Novelist, Poet, Writer) | Keywords: Harvard, whale, whales, whaling, Yale
«If the Bible had said that Jonah swallowed the whale, I would believe it»
Author: William Jennings Bryan (Orator, Politician) | Keywords: Jonah, swallowed, whale, whales
«The real threat to whales is whaling, which has endangered many whale species.»
Author: Dave Barry (Humorist, Writer) | Keywords: endanger, endangered, threat, whale, whales, whaling
«Spain: A whale stranded upon the coast of Europe.»
Author: Edmund Burke (Philosopher, Statesman) | Keywords: coast, Spain, stranded, whale
«All he does is lie there like an unemployed whale.»
Author: Nancy Cartwright (Actress) | Keywords: unemployed, whale, whales, whaling
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