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Synonyms: giant; heavyweight; hulk; sperm; sperm cell; spermatozoan; spermatozoon; whale
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The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales / Bullen, Frank T., 1857-1915
of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales by Frank T. Bullen June, 1998 [Etext #1356] [Date last ... DOMAIN ETEXTS*Ver.04.29.93*END* THE CRUISE OF THE "CACHALOT" ROUND THE WORLD AFTER SPERM WHALES details...
Moby Dick; Or The Whale / Melville, Herman
OF NANTUCKET, WHICH WAS ATTACKED AND FINALLY DESTROYED BY A LARGE SPERM WHALE IN THE PACIFIC ... with the agonies he endures from these fresh attacks, the infuriated Sperm Whale rolls over and over; he rears details...
Moby Dick, or, the whale / Melville, Herman, 1819-1891
ESSEX OF NANTUCKET, WHICH WAS ATTACKED AND FINALLY DESTROYED BY A LARGE SPERM WHALE IN THE PACIFIC OCEAN ... with the agonies he endures from these fresh attacks, the infuriated Sperm Whale rolls over and over; he rears details...
Moby Dick: or, the White Whale / Melville, Herman, 1819-1891
by a Sperm Whale on the coast of Japan, August 3d, 1833 ... ; or The Whale Author: Herman Melville January, 2001 [Etext #2489] [Date last updated: April 18, 2006] **The details...
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea / Verne, Jules, 1828-1905
199 10. The Underwater Coalfields 206 11. The Sargasso Sea 214 12. Sperm Whales and Baleen ... over before attacking; giant squid sport ten tentacles not eight; sperm whales don't prey on their whalebone cousins details...
Series, Book VIII. / Smith, R. Cadwallader
Whale, dives deep to the home of the Cuttles, purposely to attack and eat them. The Sperm Whale _must ... are enormous, and some are small. A large Sperm Whale may grow to be ninety feet long, and its weight details...
Stories of American Life and Adventure / Eggleston, Edward, 1837-1902
. Candles were also made from spermaceti, which is a substance taken from the head of the sperm whale ... it up on board the ship, and cutting it into pieces. If it was a sperm whale, they would cut a hole in his head details...
Typee / Melville, Herman, 1819-1891
proved true. As before, the Pequod steeply leaned over towards the sperm whale's head, now ... , as I live, six months out of sight of land; cruising after the sperm-whale beneath the scorching sun details...
The Book of the Bush Containing Many Truthful Sketches Of The Early Colonial Life Of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, And Others Who Left Their Native Land And Never Returned / Dunderdale, George, 1822-1903
were of two kinds, the right or black whale, and the sperm whale. The right whale has an immense tongue ... . The sperm whales feed on squid, which they bite, and when in a flurry they work with the head and flukes details...
Typee / Melville, Herman
; cruising after the sperm whale beneath the scorching sun of the Line, and tossed on the billows of the wide ... us towards the islands. In pursuit of the sperm whale, we had been cruising on the Line some twenty details...