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Letter "W" » whale
«We have sat on the river bank and caught catfish with pin hooks. The time has come to harpoon a whale.»
«Watching a baseball game on television is like chasing the great white whale in a goldfish bowl. It trivializes everything: men two inches high, a ball the size of a bee. It is like looking at the heavens through a dime-store telescope.»
Author: Ward Just
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Keywords:
baseball game,
bowl,
bowling ball,
chasing,
Game On,
goldfish,
goldfish bowl,
Great White,
inches,
whale,
white whale
«Time, the dark whale, spouts blithely from his spiracleA jet of memory that makes glad the sun.»
«The whale is endangered, while the ant continues to do just fine»
«Women are the fulfilled sex. Through our children we are able to produce our own immortality, so we lack that divine restlessness which sends men charging off in pursuit of fortune or fame or an imagined Utopia. That is why we number so few geniuses among us. The wholesome oyster wears no pearl, the healthy whale no ambergris, and as long as we can keep on adding to the race, we harbor a sort of health within ourselves.»
Author: Phyllis McGinley
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Keywords:
adding,
ambergris,
charging,
fulfilled,
geniuses,
harbor,
imagined,
oyster,
pearl,
Pearl Harbor,
sends,
wear off,
whale,
wholesome
«The story of the whale swallowing Jonah, though a whale is large enough to do it, borders greatly on the marvelous; but it would have approached nearer to the idea of a miracle if Jonah had swallowed the whale»
Author: Thomas Paine
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Writer)
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Keywords:
approached,
borders,
greatly,
Jonah,
marvelous,
nearer,
swallowed,
Swallowing,
The Marvelous,
The Story,
whale,
whales,
whaling