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 Thelma Gooch
"Ah!" cries the boy, "was never seen A fish like that which broke my rod, Such weight, such breadth of scaly sheen, A sucking whale he might have been, A grampus or Newfoundland cod."
From A Century of Emblems by G. S. Cautley
They could hear Mrs. Vand puffing and panting like a grampus, as she searched round and round.
From The Solitary Farm by Fergus Hume
Panting like grampuses, mopping their red faces, Sir Colin & posse then went back to their pews.
From Time Magazine Archive
The last family of existing cetaceans is the above-mentioned Delphinidae, which includes the true dolphins, porpoises, grampuses and their relatives.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 7 "Cerargyrite" to "Charing Cross" by Various
"I suppose it is only some other pleasant adjunct of the charming spot you would select for a villa," said Grenfell; "perhaps the seals or the grampuses are musical."
From Luttrell Of Arran Complete by Charles James Lever
Several grampuses were seen at the anchorage, also many dugongs and turtles.
Listen to me, darlint, and don't mind them stupid grampuses.
From The World of Ice by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
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