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
"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
Just what they wanted help for now that the grampus was gone, was a question quite beside the situation.
From The Corner House Girls on Palm Island by Thelma Gooch
Presently the Old Man, puffing like a grampus, hurried up to Mostyn.
From The Wireless Officer by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman
Panting like grampuses, mopping their red faces, Sir Colin & posse then went back to their pews.
From Time Magazine Archive
Several grampuses were seen at the anchorage, also many dugongs and turtles.
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 Herman Melville
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
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
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