The cachalot is a disagreeable creature, more tadpole than fish, according to. From Wordnik.com. [Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea] Reference
The cachalot is a disagreeable creature, more tadpole than fish, according to Fredol's description. From Wordnik.com. [Vingt mille lieues sous les mers. English] Reference
No one could better describe the macrocephalous cachalot, which is sometimes more than seventy-five feet long. From Wordnik.com. [Vingt mille lieues sous les mers. English] Reference
The sperm whale, or cachalot, has teeth in its lower jaw, and no whalebone whatever. From Wordnik.com. [Chatterbox, 1905.] Reference
The sperm or cachalot whale is a dangerous and bold fighter and is perhaps the most interesting of all cetaceans. From Wordnik.com. [Ranching, Sport and Travel] Reference
She is put about, making a course which shortly brings her a mile or two to windward of the slowly-moving cachalot. From Wordnik.com. [Short Stories and Selections for Use in the Secondary Schools] Reference
I gaily flung myself into my place in the mate's boat one morning, as we were departing in chase of a magnificent cachalot that had been raised just after breakfast. From Wordnik.com. [The Ontario Readers Third Book] Reference
Almost at the same moment it began; and there was I, who, with fearful admiration had so often watched the titanic convulsions of a dying cachalot, actually involved in them. From Wordnik.com. [The Ontario Readers Third Book] Reference
But it may, perhaps, be significant that a cachalot was stranded off Sark on June 3. From Wordnik.com. [The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories] Reference
The resultant oil, when recent, is of a clear white, unlike the golden-tinted fluid obtained from the cachalot. From Wordnik.com. [The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales] Reference
It was now a long while since we had been in contact with a cachalot, the last one having been killed by us on the. From Wordnik.com. [The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales] Reference
Of one thing I am certain -- that, if any of the trio survived, they never afterwards attempted to rush a cachalot. From Wordnik.com. [The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales] Reference
Except for the head work, removing the blubber was effected in precisely the same way as in the case of the cachalot. From Wordnik.com. [The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales] Reference
Still, as a practice, these creatures leave the cachalot respectfully alone, knowing instinctively that he is not their game. From Wordnik.com. [The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales] Reference
The large toothed-whales, including the cachalot or sperm whale, and also the Ziphius-like beaked whales, live upon cuttle-fish. From Wordnik.com. [More Science From an Easy Chair] Reference
Out came the head belonging to it, and a spout like an explosion burst forth, denoting the presence of an enormous bull-cachalot. From Wordnik.com. [The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales] Reference
The great cachalot was now directly ahead, about two hundred fathoms away, and coming down upon them with twice his ordinary speed. From Wordnik.com. [South American Fights and Fighters And Other Tales of Adventure] Reference
As far as the results to our profit were concerned, we might almost as well have gone straight on, for we only took one small cow-cachalot. From Wordnik.com. [The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales] Reference
When between the Cosmoledos and Astove, the next island to the northward, we sighted a "solitary" cachalot one morning just as the day dawned. From Wordnik.com. [The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales] Reference
This first bowhead yielded us eighteen tuns of oil and a ton of baleen, which made the catch about equal in value to that of a seven-tun cachalot. From Wordnik.com. [The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales] Reference
I never heard of a cow-cachalot yielding more than fifty barrels of oil; but I have both heard of, and seen, bulls carrying one hundred and fifty. From Wordnik.com. [The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales] Reference
Some of the toothed whales have teeth only in the lower jaw (the cachalot), others (the beaked whales, Ziphius, etc.) have only one pair or two pairs of teeth. From Wordnik.com. [More Science From an Easy Chair] Reference
He averred that in all his experience he had never seen a cow-cachalot anywhere around Stewart's Island, although, as usual, he did no theorizing as to the reason why. From Wordnik.com. [The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales] Reference
Until the day they killed their whale, a seventy-barrel cachalot cow who died as peaceably as a chicken, with only a convulsive flop or two when the lances found the life. From Wordnik.com. [All the Brothers Were Valiant] Reference
Almost at the same moment it began; and there was I, who with fearful admiration had so often watched the titanic convulsions of a dying cachalot, actually involved in them. From Wordnik.com. [The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales] Reference
From the difference in shape, he looked much larger than the largest sperm whale we had yet seen, although we had come across some of the very biggest specimens of cachalot. From Wordnik.com. [The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales] Reference
There was a little obliquity about the direction of the spout that made me hopeful, for the cachalot alone sends his spout diagonally upward, all the others spout vertically. From Wordnik.com. [The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales] Reference
How in the name of wonder so huge and unwieldy a creature as the cachalot could manage to catch those nimble members of the finny tribe, I could not for the life of me divine!. From Wordnik.com. [The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales] Reference
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