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
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
"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
Panting like grampuses, mopping their red faces, Sir Colin & posse then went back to their pews.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
We saw several flying-fish and a good many birds, apparently hovering over a shoal of whales or grampuses.
From A Voyage in the 'Sunbeam' Our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Months by Annie Brassey
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
Before they are out of sight I see them creeping on, and often blowing like grampuses with the unusual exertion they have made.
From The Three Admirals by J.R. Wells
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