The substance which we call whalebone is not true bone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chatterbox, 1905.] Reference

It yields the article commonly known as whalebone or baleen; and the oil specially known as "whale oil," an inferior article in commerce.    From Wordnik.com.  [Moby Dick, or, the whale] Reference

It yields the article commonly known as whalebone or baleen; and the oil specially known as 'whale oil', an inferior article in commerce.    From Wordnik.com.  [Moby-Dick, or, The Whale] Reference

"baleen" or "whalebone" -- each plank being as much as eight or in rare cases twelve feet long.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Science From an Easy Chair] Reference

Whales have whalebone, but worms have no wormbone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Creation in a gulping worm] Reference

"Then there's the whalebone," put in Andy eagerly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Frank and Andy Afloat The Cave on the Island] Reference

Old times, they'd make underbodies with whalebone in it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 2] Reference

The raven slipped his tired feet into the whalebone boots.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories of Birds] Reference

"Now it's your turn," she said, handing the whalebone to Winnie.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harper's Young People, January 6, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly] Reference

The purfling is of whalebone, like that of most of the Dutch makers.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators] Reference

Pushing aside the barrier of alpaca and whalebone from under his chin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 14, July 2, 1870] Reference

Few whaling ships now arrive with profitable cargoes of oil or whalebone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conservation Reader] Reference

Then Egil examined the bed, and found a piece of whalebone with runes on it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery] Reference

Those with whalebone have rudimentary teeth in both jaws in the foetal state.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology] Reference

I saw on the cut whalebone ten hidden letters carved, that have caused the woman.    From Wordnik.com.  [Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery] Reference

We always wore hoops and mine were of black whalebone, covered with white cloth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Old Rail Fence Corners The A. B. C's. of Minnesota History] Reference

So delighted was the owl that for a moment she had forgotten the whalebone boots.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories of Birds] Reference

Other items included skeins of twine, whalebone, scissors, and 132 pounds of soap.    From Wordnik.com.  [Domestic Life in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century] Reference

The sperm whale, or cachalot, has teeth in its lower jaw, and no whalebone whatever.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chatterbox, 1905.] Reference

Cloths made of whalebone ticking are inexpensive and make the best for ordinary use.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elements of Plumbing] Reference

This produces an elastic fiber intermediate in stiffness between twine and whalebone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference

The development of whalebone (baleen) in the mouth of the whale is another difficulty.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Genesis of Species] Reference

From it we get the whalebone, oil and also a fertilizer to help our farm crops to grow.    From Wordnik.com.  [Where We Live A Home Geography] Reference

The wiping cloths made of whalebone ticking make good, serviceable, and lasting cloths.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elements of Plumbing] Reference

Formerly ribs were made out of cane or whalebone; but these materials are now seldom used.    From Wordnik.com.  [Illustrated Science for Boys and Girls] Reference

Corsets boned with whalebone, horn or steel are necessarily stiff, rigid and uncomfortable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference

The first operation of butchering a whale -- if it be a baleener -- is to secure the whalebone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Swept Out to Sea Clint Webb Among the Whalers] Reference

Cetacea might with some propriety be divided into whales with whalebone, and whales with teeth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology] Reference

The raven came, but so delighted was he with the whalebone boots that he could not stand still.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories of Birds] Reference

There are numerous kinds of whales, and they do not all yield the substance which we call whalebone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chatterbox, 1905.] Reference

The strips of whalebone, which reach from the upper jaw to the lower one, must, therefore, be very large.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chatterbox, 1905.] Reference

Signs in bold lettering are advertising "authentic" whalebone walking canes, along with high-tech wheelchairs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marketing To The Elder Set] Reference

Freddie's mascot was a few lengths of whalebone bound with twine and socketed into a pear-shaped lump of lead.    From Wordnik.com.  [Men of Affairs] Reference

But before the raven saw her she hid the whalebone boots among the grasses, that she might surprise him later.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories of Birds] Reference

The bow was made from selected pieces of driftwood, reinforced by strips of whalebone, and bound with deer sinew.    From Wordnik.com.  [Short Sketches from Oldest America] Reference

If you can learn what whalebone is, and what is its use, you will know a good deal about the habits of the whale itself.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chatterbox, 1905.] Reference

Signs in extra-bold lettering are advertising "authentic" whalebone walking canes, along with the newest high-tech wheelchairs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Young At Heart] Reference

Can he who has discovered only some of the values of whalebone and whale oil be said to have discovered the true use of the whale?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 2, August, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference