In reality, it was the tusk of a cetaceous animal inhabiting the northern ocean, and known as the sea-unicorn or narwhal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery] Reference

Lang Ca Ong, the Temple of the Whales, was built in 1911 and had about it a distinctly non-Buddhist air, with its cases of cetaceous skeletons.    From Wordnik.com.  [Floating City]

Doubtless the friend to whom the letter was indited was highly edified by the aged doctor's learning, yet one cannot conceive that he would be greatly consoled by being informed, when discussing the patient's cough, that 'in cetaceous Fishes, who have large and strong lungs, the same is not observed; nor yet in oviparous.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book-Hunter at Home] Reference

Seven or eight years ago a cetaceous monster was stranded near the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Awakening of China] Reference

What, then, is this cetaceous monster of which no Cuvier ever thought?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Voyage au centre de la terre. English] Reference

It has not the fetid smell of whale-oil, or that of the other cetaceous animals which spout water.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2] Reference

I have observed that all the cetaceous tribe are very much annoyed by vermin, which adhere to their skins.    From Wordnik.com.  [The King's Own] Reference

Strait, and among the mighty icebergs of Baffin's Bay, we saw no cetaceous creatures, save twice some floundering porpoises, and thrice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tales of the Chesapeake] Reference

Page view page image: in its place, or the heavy breathing of some smaller fish of the cetaceous kind, as it rose to the surface to inhale the atmosphere.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Water-witch, Or, the Skimmer of the Seas] Reference

While talking of cetaceous animals, to which order the porpoise belongs, I must remark on a very common error held by seaman as well as landsmen, that whales spout out water.    From Wordnik.com.  [My First Voyage to Southern Seas] Reference

This account greatly favours the idea of the vegetable origin of amber; but Wallcrius aflerts, that the black and dark coloured amber is often found in the bowels of cetaceous filhes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Economy of Nature Explained and Illustrated: On the Principles of Modern Philosophy. By G ...] Reference

Insentient and cetaceous toner printer ink of old archpriest welt, meanwhile, and what daily to be a hearty of a erysiphales up lightheartedness fit the vardenafil of the flightiness endogenously.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rational Review] Reference

South America, like the manatee, which, according to Cuvier, is also a fresh water cetaceous animal? or must we admit that they go up from the sea against the current, as the beluga sometimes does in the rivers of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America] Reference

South America, like the manatee, which, according to Cuvier, is also a fresh water cetaceous animal? or must we admit that they go up from the sea against the current, as the beluga sometimes does in the rivers of Asia?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2] Reference

Now with respect to fish, they are very inferior in the scale of creation, being, with the exception of the cetaceous tribe, which class with the Mammalia, all cold-blooded animals, and much less perfect than reptiles or many insects.    From Wordnik.com.  [Olla Podrida] Reference

To him and Murtagh, the presence of this strange cetaceous animal gave no relief; and, after hearing its call, they sank back to their seats, relapsing into the state of half despondency, half hopefulness, from which it had startled them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Castaways] Reference

THE DOLPHIN Lording over a mess of cords and pedals that looks like an overturned bowl of spaghetti, the Dolphin can take a cetaceous click and a drone and make them sound like a chorus of growling cannibals jabbing bones at a fleshy pudding.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chicago Reader] Reference

STRABO, of cetaceous animals in the seas of Ceylon with heads resembling oxen and lions; and this justifies the conjecture that other portions of the same work referring to the island may have been simultaneously borrowed from the same source.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 (of 2)] Reference

That is to say, those which people the high seas and those which love the shores; those which inhabit the depths and those which attach themselves to rocks; those which are gregarious and those which live dispersed, the cetaceous, the huge, and the tiny.    From Wordnik.com.  [NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works] Reference

In all the regularly stratified formations, animals of the mammiferous or cetaceous classes are wholly wanting; at least we have no proof that can be relied upon of any having been found in formations which took place prior to the last great deluge, that covered so much of the land with diluvium.    From Wordnik.com.  [The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831] Reference

Numerous. detachments, like fo manv videttes, preceded the main body, approached very near to us, and rounded our flup in every diredion; the rapidity of their evolutions, and the boldnefs of their leaps, interefted us the more from our never having feen till now fo vaft aflioal of cetaceous animals.    From Wordnik.com.  [Voyages and TRavels in All Parts of the World] Reference

The real dolphin, which is of the cetaceous kind, was anciently celebrated in poetic story on account of its philanthropy and other supposed virtues: but to the dorado or dolphin of the moderns, this character is far from being applicable, this fish being extremely voracious and destructive, and is known to follow the ships, and exhibit his sports and gambols, not from attachment to mankind, but from the more selfish motive of procuring food.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gender, Environment, and Imperialism in William Blake's _Visions of the Daughters of Albion_] Reference

(of which my friend Dr. Cantor has described about twelve species he found in the Bay of Bengal), turtles, palmated birds, pinnipedous and cetaceous mammalia, &c.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon] Reference

Peregrine’s envious thoughts restored, too, the elegant sign supported above the portico by two prancing cetaceous mammals, and regilded its lettering: the dolphin theatre.    From Wordnik.com.  [Killer Dolphin]

Get that through your cetaceous gray matter!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-11-01] Reference

3. sea monsters ... breast -- Whales and other cetaceous monsters are mammalian.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference

Between the polar circle and the tropic, the cetaceous animals of the ocean grow to the length of 50, 80, or 100 feet, (Hist. des Voyages, tom.xv. p. 289.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4] Reference

"Nothing, on my conscience, then," said the publican, puffing not unlike a cetaceous fish that had come to the surface to breathe; "as I am an unworthy sinner, sitting under the preaching of good and faithful Dr.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Red Rover] Reference

By fancies cetaceous and drink well possessed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of Humorous Verse] Reference

I, for one, welcome our new cetaceous overlords.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lede] Reference

CE, CI, TI, before a vowel, have the sound of sh; as in cetaceous, gracious, motion, partial, ingratiate; pronounced cetashus, grashus, moshun, parshal, ingrashiate.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference] Reference