"That's no whale!" the harpooner muttered in dread. From Wordnik.com. [Mercadian Masques]
John Carr was harpooner and commander of one of them. From Wordnik.com. [Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder and Piracy A weird series of tales of shipwreck and disaster, from the earliest part of the century to the present time, with accounts of providential escapes and heart-rending fatalities.] Reference
In the boat was the harpooner, a brother of Sam Swain, senior. From Wordnik.com. [Three Years in Tristan da Cunha] Reference
The harpooner had told me terribly wonderful things of himself. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 6] Reference
“The thing itself on the port quarter!” cried the harpooner. From Wordnik.com. [Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea] Reference
Peter Carey was master of the Sea Unicorn, and I was spare harpooner. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventure of Black Peter.] Reference
"We work in Lindgrad's London office," the harpooner confessed to them. From Wordnik.com. [Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine]
A tangle of whale lines lashes the body of a dead harpooner to his back. From Wordnik.com. [Allan M. Jalon: Arts Lust: The Otterness Blizzard] Reference
He is, I believe, a first-rate harpooner and makes a good deal by his skill. From Wordnik.com. [Three Years in Tristan da Cunha] Reference
The caretaker was a harpooner who intended sailing next voyage on the whale ship. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 6] Reference
Two other sport-fishing boats and a Nantucket swordfish harpooner moored near us. From Wordnik.com. [Summer at Sea] Reference
“Good!” said the disappointed harpooner, who saw his dreams of fresh meat fade away. From Wordnik.com. [Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea] Reference
The harpooner and I drank on, grinning in a superior way to each other over Scotty's plight. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 6] Reference
But continually, inside my head, I saw the tongue of the harpooner, covered dry with sand, as. From Wordnik.com. [THE BONES OF KAHEKILI] Reference
All the efforts of the other boats to approach the whale, and deliver the harpooner, were futile. From Wordnik.com. [Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder and Piracy A weird series of tales of shipwreck and disaster, from the earliest part of the century to the present time, with accounts of providential escapes and heart-rending fatalities.] Reference
“Hum!” said the harpooner, shaking his head with the air of a man who would not be convinced. From Wordnik.com. [Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea] Reference
“But if they do not exist, mine obstinate harpooner, how explain the accident to the Scotia?”. From Wordnik.com. [Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea] Reference
To his great disgust, the harpooner did not seem to have made himself more intelligible than I had. From Wordnik.com. [Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea] Reference
And their weight necessitates a harpooner being chosen from among the biggest and strongest men in the ship. From Wordnik.com. [Swept Out to Sea Clint Webb Among the Whalers] Reference
If the harpooner missed with one iron, or if there was time to fling a second, he could reach and get it handily. From Wordnik.com. [Swept Out to Sea Clint Webb Among the Whalers] Reference
“Well, sir,” asked the Canadian, “can I not chase them, if only to remind me of my old trade of harpooner?”. From Wordnik.com. [Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea] Reference
The harpooner who leaped overboard, escaped certain death by the act, -- the tail having struck the very spot on which he stood. From Wordnik.com. [Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder and Piracy A weird series of tales of shipwreck and disaster, from the earliest part of the century to the present time, with accounts of providential escapes and heart-rending fatalities.] Reference
Conseil, his servant, and Ned Land, of Canadian origin, harpooner on board the frigate Abraham Lincoln of the navy of the United. From Wordnik.com. [Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea] Reference
"More refugees from inland, eh?" exclaimed a rough but cordial seaman, who proved to be the captain's harpooner and boat-steerer. From Wordnik.com. [On a Torn-Away World Or, the Captives of the Great Earthquake] Reference
I announced our names and rank, introducing in person Professor Aronnax, his servant Conseil, and master Ned Land, the harpooner. From Wordnik.com. [Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea] Reference
The harpooner, with the axe in his hands, stands ready. From Wordnik.com. [Letters from an American Farmer] Reference
"You can't swim in that ice water," said the harpooner confidentially to me. From Wordnik.com. [John Barleycorn] Reference
Was I any the less strong, any the less valiant, than the harpooner and the sailor?. From Wordnik.com. [John Barleycorn] Reference
The caretaker was a harpooner who intended sailing next voyage on the whale ship Bonanza. From Wordnik.com. [John Barleycorn] Reference
The harpooner balanced his iron, swayed his body lightly, and the harpoon hissed from him. From Wordnik.com. [Love Me Little, Love Me Long] Reference
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