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Authors names: Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 (4) Various (4) Stockton, Frank Richard, 1834-1902 (2) Melville, Herman (2)

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Synonyms: giant; heavyweight; hulk; sperm; sperm cell; spermatozoan; spermatozoon; whale

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  1.  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...
  2.  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...
  3.  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...
  4.  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...
  5.  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...
  6.  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...
  7.  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...
  8.  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...
  9.  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...
  10.  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...

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