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Letter "W" » whale
«A whale is harpooned only when it spouts.»
«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
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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.»
«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
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Novelist,
Poet,
Writer)
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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
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Novelist,
Poet,
Writer)
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About:
Anger
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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.»
«If the Bible had said that Jonah swallowed the whale, I would believe it»
«The real threat to whales is whaling, which has endangered many whale species.»
«Spain: A whale stranded upon the coast of Europe.»
«All he does is lie there like an unemployed whale.»