`Will you walk a little faster?' said a whiting to a snail. `There's a porpoise close behind us, and he's treading on my tail.'. From LearnThat.org. [Lewis Carroll (1832-1898)]
So-called porpoise leather is made of the skin of the white whale. From Wordnik.com. [Ranching, Sport and Travel] Reference
What Nairne calls a porpoise, is really the beluga, a small white whale. From Wordnik.com. [A Canadian Manor and Its Seigneurs The Story of a Hundred Years, 1761-1861] Reference
Well, anyway, it's a porpoise, and a porpoise is a kind of shark, isn't it?. From Wordnik.com. [Europe Revised] Reference
The other is the bottle-nose porpoise, which is generally thought to be the phaecena of Aristotle. From Wordnik.com. [A Voyage to New Holland] Reference
The porpoise is the true dolphin, the sailor's dolphin being a fish with vertical tail, scales and gills. From Wordnik.com. [Ranching, Sport and Travel] Reference
The porpoise is the kitten of the sea; he never has a serious thought, he cares for nothing but fun and play. From Wordnik.com. [Following the Equator] Reference
The so-called "porpoise" of the St. Lawrence is in reality the French. From Wordnik.com. [A Canadian Manor and Its Seigneurs The Story of a Hundred Years, 1761-1861] Reference
Oil was the most important product; it came from the "porpoise" fishery. From Wordnik.com. [A Canadian Manor and Its Seigneurs The Story of a Hundred Years, 1761-1861] Reference
The one that isn't a porpoise is a passing steamer. ". From Wordnik.com. [Patty in Paris] Reference
"A porpoise is a fish," replied Don gravely. From Wordnik.com. [Left Guard Gilbert] Reference
But none could provide a porpoise on short notice. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Swift and the Electronic Hydrolung] Reference
Another very interesting sea animal is the porpoise. From Wordnik.com. [A Soldier in the Philippines] Reference
The porpoise gave chase, whistling and grunting audibly. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Swift and the Electronic Hydrolung] Reference
She was just like a huge porpoise wallowing in the water!. From Wordnik.com. [Fritz and Eric The Brother Crusoes] Reference
In less than twenty minutes they sighted a small porpoise. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Swift and the Electronic Hydrolung] Reference
He summoned the porpoise with a whistle and straddled its back. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Swift and the Electronic Hydrolung] Reference
With the flying-fish around us and a porpoise school before us. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, January 17, 1917] Reference
A kayaker sits in the water, down among the wavelets, like a porpoise. From Wordnik.com. [From Sea To Shining Sea] Reference
His skin, like that of the porpoise, is as thin as gold-beaters 'leaf. From Wordnik.com. [Ranching, Sport and Travel] Reference
The others watched the porpoise as he made his way out to the open sea. From Wordnik.com. [The Motor Girls Through New England or, Held by the Gypsies] Reference
With the food as bait they tried to lure the porpoise to the seacopter. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Swift and the Electronic Hydrolung] Reference
A good fish, which is common and found in large numbers is the porpoise. From Wordnik.com. [The Bounty of the Chesapeake Fishing in Colonial Virginia] Reference
Now he rested on the back of a treacherous porpoise that soon cast him away. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, August 22, 1891] Reference
A few pelicans flew by, and some porpoise swam in the cleaner patches of water. From Wordnik.com. [Rocky Kistner: Countering BP's PR: Deception by Dispersal; The Great Gulf Oil Tragedy] Reference
You know the story is all over Myers that you saw a porpoise and imagined the rest. From Wordnik.com. [Dick in the Everglades] Reference
A moment later the porpoise dived and the cook let out a yell of terror, "He-e-elp!". From Wordnik.com. [Tom Swift and the Electronic Hydrolung] Reference
He imagined a tarpon jumping into it, a shark swimming against it, or a porpoise smashing it. From Wordnik.com. [Dick in the Everglades] Reference
He at first took it to be that of a shark, but found later it belonged to a harmless porpoise. From Wordnik.com. [Some Naval Yarns] Reference
Upon his face, which was shaped like that of a porpoise, he had a beard of the colour of ooze. From Wordnik.com. [Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 1 (of 3)] Reference
She rolls like a porpoise in a seaway, and she'd crush us like an egg shell if we got too close. From Wordnik.com. [The Motor Girls on Waters Blue Or the Strange Cruise of the Tartar] Reference
I evolved quickly from a jellyfish to a porpoise, then spent the rest of the season as a dolphin. From Wordnik.com. [Seducing Matt Mitcham] Reference
Jim caught his breath, and in such a noisy way that one would think it was a porpoise blowing in the inlet. From Wordnik.com. [Darry the Life Saver The Heroes of the Coast] Reference
But one or two -- including a drugged-out woman's conversation with a fascist porpoise -- would puzzle David Lynch. From Wordnik.com. [They Gotta Be Making This Up] Reference
He had on his head long green hair; his face was shaped like that of a porpoise, and he had a beard of the colour of ooze. From Wordnik.com. [Folk-Lore and Legends: North American Indian] Reference
Why I sha'n't breathe straight again for a month, and I don't want to go in on the dear child puffing like a crazy porpoise. From Wordnik.com. [Six Girls A Home Story] Reference
Mr. RICHARD PIERCE (Oceanographer, Mote): If a whale dies or if a porpoise dies, then you've got a dead body that you can see. From Wordnik.com. ['Virtual Shellfish' Aid In Studying Oil's Effects] Reference
C. G., "perplexed in the extreme," was the cause of perplexity to others, figuring now as a flying-fish, and now as a porpoise. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845] Reference
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