The blue whale is often called the leviathan of the deep. From LearnThat.org.
The launch at Kingston of the "St. Lawrence," an "oak leviathan" of a hundred guns, gave the British complete naval supremacy of. From Wordnik.com. [Neville Trueman, the Pioneer Preacher : a tale of the war of 1812] Reference
It was a leviathan among redwoods. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
They were assigned the leviathan of textbooks. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Thomas Barnett says the military should be divided between what he calls a leviathan force for high intensity wars and a system administrative force to rebuild nations. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 18, 2004] Reference
I think much of fishing for a leviathan from the Island of the Cold Sea. From Wordnik.com. [Fir-Flower Tablets: Poems Translated From the Chinese] Reference
It is worthy of note, too, that the word leviathan in xli. 1 is used in a totally different sense from iii 8, where it is the mythological (sea?) dragon. From Wordnik.com. [Introduction to the Old Testament] Reference
The leviathan is said to play in the waters, because he is so well armed against all assaults that he sets them at defiance and laughs at the shaking of a spear, Job xli. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)] Reference
The face of the leviathan is here described to be terrible (ver. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)] Reference
The unicorns are incapably translated wild oxen, and the dragons … do you mean the leviathan, which is a crocodile?. From Wordnik.com. [Pharyngula] Reference
The whale is particularly mentioned in the history of the creation (Gen.i. 21) and is here called the leviathan, as Job xli. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)] Reference
To convince Job of God's power and terrible majesty several particular instances are here given of the strength and terror of the leviathan, which is no more than what. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)] Reference
Schuttens renders it by supplying words as follows: -- Let those that are ready for anything, call it (the day) the raiser up of leviathan, that is, of a host of evils. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference
Interestingly, in the book of Job, there is a sighting with of a 'leviathan', which description is remarkably similar to a dinosaur. From Wordnik.com. [jaimewolf Diary Entry] Reference
In such a conflict, needless to say, all the old rivalries of "leviathan" interests, of which we have already heard so much, re-emerged. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the Cambrian A Biography of a Railway] Reference
Upon this the hunters hauled at the rope to which the hook was attached, and, notwithstanding his struggles, drew "leviathan" to shore. From Wordnik.com. [Ancient Egypt] Reference
The level climaxes with a confrontation between Hale and a skyscraper-sized leviathan which is about the most memorable moment of the game. From Wordnik.com. [Latest from PALGN] Reference
Oh and why do we have to disregard stuff like "leviathan"?. From Wordnik.com. [Slusho! Flavors] Reference
This huge leviathan, like all the others of the herd, was long since dead. From Wordnik.com. [On a Torn-Away World Or, the Captives of the Great Earthquake] Reference
The eastbound began to wind and lift like a leviathan seeking a way through. From Wordnik.com. [The Rim of the Desert] Reference
Violin -- very, very, very sleepy, drones the drowsy four-stringed leviathan. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845.] Reference
The leviathan, it's back towards us, turned its head to see what the sudden noise was. From Wordnik.com. [Monsters and Me] Reference
Canst thou draw out the leviathan with a hook, or canst thou tie his tongue with a cord?. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 20: Job The Challoner Revision] Reference
About Christmas 1816, or January 1817, Mrs. Fry commenced her leviathan task in good earnest. From Wordnik.com. [Elizabeth Fry] Reference
Then other lashings were made while the great aerostat plunged about like a wounded leviathan. From Wordnik.com. [Illustrated Science for Boys and Girls] Reference
When anglers draw the great leviathan from his mighty deeps, what hope have the fish of the shallow pond?. From Wordnik.com. [Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala] Reference
If Waco undermines people's trust in the federal leviathan, is that a problem (as NEWSWEEK seems to think)?. From Wordnik.com. [Mail Call] Reference
Then Portland took my rod, and caught some ten-pounders, and my spoon was carried away by an unknown leviathan. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7] Reference
Nevada range there are several lakes which receive the waters of the eastern slope of these leviathan mountains. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Adventures of Kit Carson, the Nestor of the Rocky Mountains, from Facts Narrated by Himself] Reference
I was sure: If it chanced that a whaling ship came within sight of the dead leviathan my peril would soon be over. From Wordnik.com. [Swept Out to Sea Clint Webb Among the Whalers] Reference
The waterspout whirled past -- within three cable-lengths of the dead leviathan, -- and the tempest shrieked after. From Wordnik.com. [Swept Out to Sea Clint Webb Among the Whalers] Reference
Wavecrest was safely moored to the body of the dead leviathan, I set about correcting the need which preyed upon me. From Wordnik.com. [Swept Out to Sea Clint Webb Among the Whalers] Reference
The mysterious flail stopped beating the huge body and the water seemed churned excitedly at the nose of the leviathan. From Wordnik.com. [Swept Out to Sea Clint Webb Among the Whalers] Reference
This leviathan will be coaled by lighters outside the three-miles limit and will ride the high seas for ever and a day. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, June 3, 1914] Reference
And I think it must be as well for Major League Baseball that's struggling to control this mammoth leviathan of an archive. From Wordnik.com. [In 'Tenth Inning,' Baseball's Shakespearean Plot] Reference
They call them raves: leviathan dance-fests that combine a squishy Grateful Dead philosophy with an Alice in Wonderland ambience. From Wordnik.com. [Through The Looking Glass] Reference
“Herb, how are you?” she'd asked when she recognized the leviathan that had rolled up in front of her at the Orange Julius stand. From Wordnik.com. [Puppy Love] Reference
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