grampus
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He continues: “Water dog, grampus, grumpus, mollyhugger, horny head, devil dog.”
From Washington Times ● Dec. 2, 2018
It h a menacing or amorous puff, similar to the grampus.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
“He’s got the nicest white hair and a gold-headed cane——” 246 “Not the grampus, Dot,” groaned Tess, in despair.
From The Corner House Girls on Palm Island by Gooch, Thelma
On the 26th of December we saw several albicores, dolphins, and grampus, and shoals of flying fish; lat. at noon 22.
From An Account of the Campaign in the West Indies, in the Year 1794, Under the Command of their Excellencies Lieutenant General Sir Charles Grey, K.B., and Vice Admiral Sir John Jervis, K.B. by Willyams, Cooper
I wakened about seven bells in the morning watch, just for a moment, you know, and you were snoring like a grampus.
From The Cruise of the Snowbird A Story of Arctic Adventure by Stables, Gordon
Panting like grampuses, mopping their red faces, Sir Colin & posse then went back to their pews.
From Time Magazine Archive
And it is sure that if God wills, the grampuses will eat him.
From The Children of the King by Crawford, F. Marion (Francis Marion)
An occasional whale is seen blowing in the distance, and many grampuses come rolling about the ship,—most inelegant brutes, some three or four times the size of a porpoise.
From A Boy's Voyage Round the World by Smiles, Samuel
They put their heads under water and came up puffing and blowing like grampuses.
From Now It Can Be Told by Gibbs, Philip
The second side-course—miocene—was out of course, flesh after fowl: marine mammalia,—seals, grampuses, and whales, served up with sea- weed on their flanks, hearts and kidneys deviled, and fins and flippers friccasied.
From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II by Melville, Herman
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