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
It was my first visit to Sydney since her marriage, and I enjoyed myself much, and threw off my cough, and could get up stairs without blowing like a grampus.
From Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. II by Edmund Downey
The governor will blow like an old grampus, I know he will—well, we must stop till he gets his wind again.
From A History of Pendennis, Volume 1 His fortunes and misfortunes, his friends and his greatest enemy by William Makepeace Thackeray
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 F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford
Fifty white whales surrounded their monarch, and a host of dolphins, grampuses, and porpoises brought up the rear.
From Tales of the Chesapeake by George Alfred Townsend
They put their heads under water and came up puffing and blowing like grampuses.
From Now It Can Be Told by Philip Gibbs
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 Samuel Smiles
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